A live-blog of the movie Return to Oz is just more evidence that all children should read the original L. Frank Baum Oz books -all 14 of them. (via Metafilter)
How Emperor Penguins Survive the Cold.
The 11 Funniest Fish on the Web. Each photograph is just begging for a caption.
On March 10, the first annual Symmys will be awarded for the best palindromes of 2012. Ten finalists in each of four categories are competing under the eye of linguists, palindromists, and celebrity judges like Weird Al Yankovic.
The death of the American pun. It’s been replaced by hideous portmanteaus such as chillax, mansplaining, and bridezilla.
The Year’s 21 Television Pilots Most Likely To Get A Greenlight. Familiar names seem more important than the concepts at this stage.
The Horror Of A Female Driven Society (according to Silver Age comics). How awful that they start acting like men!
How the wrong definition of 'literally' snuck into the dictionary. Etymologists have apparently thrown in the towel (but not literally) to the common modern usage.
1 comment:
SNEAKED
Snuck isn't in the dictionary!
:-)
gfa
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