Jason & the Argot-nauts

British slang phrases I love and would like to adopt:

argy-bargy
bender
builder
bullocks
chav
fit
gear
gobshite
innit
lad
nick
pissed
poofter
ponce
posh
pull
rubbish
knackered
nob
sod
slag
slapper
snog
skint
taking the piss
toff
tosser
trainers
twat
wanker
yob

Basically all my knowledge of Brit talk comes from Shameless & Skins. I think if I actually moved to England I'd be terribly disappointed if everyone didn't talk like they were some trashy Manchesterer (ite?)... but there's no need to worry because that's how everyone over there talks, right?

From The Caddy Shack I Summon Thee

"Chevy Chase is dead. A group of grim necrowarriors need to bring him back to life, but the only way to do this is by resurrecting him in the blood of 1000 virgins. After reviving his corpse, they realise that he is a murderous zombie, and so set out to kill him again."



Unfortunately the video isn't as hilarious as the description, but the fat goth kid is funny. Also, necrowarriors is now my word of the day... and if you're going to have necrowarriors, they've just got to be grim.

I said thank you Lord for thinking about me, I'm alive and doing fine

Everybody wants attention.

Oh baby it's rainin', rainin'

I had a dream I was driving to JFK airport in a taxicab, giving (accurate) directions to the driver who was listening to Rush Limbaugh on the radio. The driver kept apologizing because Rush was attacking me personally, but he didn't change the station. In the airport there were lots of tolls we had to pay to get to our terminal, but they only accepted francs.

The big ant ate the little dead ant and was eatten by the bigger spider

He's been to three schools in as many years, his favorite color is green, but he doesn't always remember how to spell it. He's Hollywood's newest bad boy child star and he's gay. Tonight on 60 Minutes, Diane Sawyer's interview with ____ _____, his mother, and his assertion that when he recently told the press he was gay he meant happy and they just misunderstood.

Alliterative living

I'm going to buy a dictionary and highlight all the words I like, then I'm going to start over.

A story is a journey, a journey is a story.

prec·i·pice
Pronunciation: 'pre-s(&-)p&s
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French, from Latin praecipitium, from praecipit-, praeceps headlong, from prae- + caput head
1 : a very steep or overhanging place
2 : a hazardous situation; broadly

The name, Chekhov's gun, comes from Anton Chekhov himself, who stated that any object introduced in a story must be used later on, else it ought not to feature in the first place:

• "One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it." Anton Chekhov, letter to Aleksandr Semenovich Lazarev (pseudonym of A. S. Gruzinsky), 1 November 1889.
• "If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there." From Gurlyand's Reminiscences of A. P. Chekhov, in Teatr i iskusstvo 1904, No 28, 11 July, p. 521.’
• "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." From S. Shchukin, Memoirs (1911)

Run Around

I've never seen anyone play air harmonica.

I never want to grow up

"Peak earning years" is a nasty phrase.

9 months since my last post, more than 2 years since I created this blog, paper writing procrastination=time for a post.