How series can you take threads with misspellings in title?

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Re: How series can you take threads with misspellings in tit

Postby Project Willow » Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:44 pm

The Elements of Fucking Style

http://www.theelementsoffuckingstyle.com/

This book addresses everything from common questions (“What the hell is a pronoun?”) to philosophical conundrums (“Does not using paragraphs or periods make my thesis read like it was written by a mental patient?”).

Other valuable sections include:

* All I’ve got in this world are my sentences and my balls,
and I don’t break ’em for nobody
* • Pronouns are a real bitch
* • A colon is more than an organ that gets cancer
* • The positive form beats the shit out of wishy-washy writing
* • Symmetry is the tits
* • Words your bound to fuck up

One glance at your friend’s blog should tell you everything you need to know about the sorry state of the English language. This book gives you the tools you need to stop looking like an idiot on message boards and in interoffice memos. Grammar has never before been so much fucking fun.
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Re: How series can you take threads with misspellings in tit

Postby JackRiddler » Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:50 pm

Willow, from that page you left out the priceless second blurb:

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Re: How series can you take threads with misspellings in tit

Postby Project Willow » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:03 am

I wore out my funny bone in the weiner thread. I'm still recuperating.
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Re: How series can you take threads with misspellings in tit

Postby blanc » Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:24 am

THE ELEMENTS OF FUCKING STYLE

The gerund took me off in a completely different direction. Turns out we're still talking about writing.
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Re: How series can you take threads with misspellings in tit

Postby JackRiddler » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:36 pm

blanc wrote:
THE ELEMENTS OF FUCKING STYLE

The gerund took me off in a completely different direction. Turns out we're still talking about writing.


You're thinking of the Kama Sutra.

I think an update called the Kama Fucking Sutra would be redundant, no?
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Re: How series can you take threads with misspellings in tit

Postby blanc » Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:59 am

You're thinking of the Kama Sutra.

Well, its a verb/noun/adjective/gerund/expletive of tantric flexibility, some might also say a milestone on the road to modern English degeneration.
Sidetrack... what's your favourite (yes I spell it with a u) f word derivative or expression?
I'm torn between the Northern "fookin Nora", especially when pronounced by Pakistani kids playing in the UK backstreets of bleak terraces, when it's overlaid with the Indian sub continent inflection, "Well f*** a duck" as an expression of mild surprise and "Go f*** yourself with the blunt end of a ragman's trumpet" similar to the expression of surprise I found here, when trying to figure out if this is regional too.
http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/11135-you-could-knock-me-down-feather.html


Yet there are so many to choose from.

Does anyone know Nora?
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Re: How series can you take threads with misspellings in tit

Postby Project Willow » Wed Jun 29, 2011 4:57 pm

I do not know Nora. Here the phrase would be, "Flippin' nora!"

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: The fear of long words.

A movie character wrote:Do you have a favourite-sounding word? My top-five are "ointment," "bumblebee," "Vladivostok," "banana," and "testicle."


What are your favorite sounding words?

When I was a child I used to write the word hello over and over again because I enjoyed the rhythm of its strokes. Hmmm, perhaps there was some other reason.
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Re: How series can you take threads with misspellings in tit

Postby JackRiddler » Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:33 pm

.

Five random words with a sound I like:

kleptocracy
schizophrenia
consilience (not even sure what it means)
scram
rambunctious

They don't have to be good things, right?

Snafu. Insert. Soup.

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Re: How series can you take threads with misspellings in tit

Postby justdrew » Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:34 pm

Project Willow wrote:I do not know Nora. Here the phrase would be, "Flippin' nora!"

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: The fear of long words.

A movie character wrote:Do you have a favourite-sounding word? My top-five are "ointment," "bumblebee," "Vladivostok," "banana," and "testicle."


What are your favorite sounding words?

When I was a child I used to write the word hello over and over again because I enjoyed the rhythm of its strokes. Hmmm, perhaps there was some other reason.


the first word I ever wrote was, circa 1973-74: Oil

I scribbled it for some unknown reason (well, headlines obviously gave me the idea) on the white picket fence around our mobile home.

no special loves for word sounds that I can think of :shrug:
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Re: How series can you take threads with misspellings in tit

Postby MacCruiskeen » Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:38 pm

"Hello" is one of those words that look as they're smiling at you. So does "Kellogg's", especially in that handwritten typeface:

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When I was a kid I used to stare at the packet on the breakfast table, saying "Kellogg's Kellogg's Kellogg's Kellogg's Kellogg's Kellogg's..." until the word lost all meaning and I went into a kind of trance or fugue state, known in Scotland as a wee dwalm. That always got the day off to a good start.
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Postby semper occultus » Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:50 pm

words I like the sound of :

refulgent
dwalm ( thanks mac.. )
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Postby MacCruiskeen » Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:55 pm

punctilious

miasma

thurible

fart
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Postby semper occultus » Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:08 pm

lubricant
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Re: How series can you take threads with misspellings in tit

Postby norton ash » Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:46 pm

leisure
plangent
languid
mellow
lanolin
louche
lugubrious

got a thing about ELLs.
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Re: How series can you take threads with misspellings in tit

Postby MacCruiskeen » Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:12 pm

tintinabullation

carillon

glockenspiel

plangent

chime

(got a thing about bells)

norton ash wrote:
got a thing about ELLs.


hello

Kellogg's
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