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Cosplay

I think it is wonderful that adults like to play dress-up, be it for sexual purposes or just for fun. In fact, I even think it’s fair that we have a word specifically to describe the practice.
But the word “cosplay” was thought up by a monkey. A STUPID monkey. One with a brain injury and [...]

Posted 23 September 2009 † Christopher § Neologisms § Sex § Trying to be Cool ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Vegas, Baby!

Please observe the following phenomenon:
When a person is going to Las Vegas, or even when simply talking about Las Vegas, rather than saying
I’m going to Las Vegas.
they say
I’m going to Vegas, baby!
Did Las Vegas change its name to Vegas Baby? It is the only reasonable explanation. The alternative is that everyone I know has been [...]

Posted 13 September 2009 † Christopher § Expressions § Trying to be Cool ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Oxymoron

Get rid of this word. Just get rid of it. We cannot have a word that ends in “moron” that has nothing to do with morons. Granted the “moron” in “oxymoron” comes from the same place as the “moron” in “moron” (the Greeks, those fuckers), and I’m sure at some point this word had a [...]

Posted 27 April 2009 † Christopher § Doesn't Match Meaning § Nouns ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Pataflafla

In drumming, in particular using the snare drum, there are these things called “rudiments”. A rudiment is a basic pattern one learns to build a kind of drumming vocabulary. There are several national and international drumming organizations that recognize the most important rudiments, and currently there are at least 40 accepted rudiments. These range from [...]

Posted 21 April 2009 † Christopher § Music § Weird Stuff ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

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