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16 March 2006

Sometimes someone writes something so weird, that it brightens my day a little bit.
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Then it gets deleted.

post by: knave at: 14:11 | 16 comments

I'm so glad I got to pile on that one before it closed.

posted by Miko 16 March | 14:20

Thus, to watch Constantine, a MIND must dissolve itself and become NOTHING. With a bag of chips.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 16 March | 14:41

That's just gotta be ethylene.

posted by shane 16 March | 16:05

Hahaha! Shane! It can't be eth: too many caps.

posted by Frisbee Girl 16 March | 16:12

It's a little too linear to be ethylene's style, unfortunately.

I was just thinking about her this morning. Wondering where she is. I hope she's just taking a nice healthy vacation from the internet and/or taking care of herself in general, instead of the worst case scenario I can't help but imagine.

posted by matildaben 16 March | 16:12

i hope she's ok too.

posted by amberglow 16 March | 16:21

I'm sure that the worst case isn't the case. Really.

posted by taz 16 March | 16:38

Miko’s comment in that “What in the NOW” thread was so funny, and I loved the “best answer” (?!) picks. I also got a big laugh today from the discussion of eggcorns that’s going on over in MeTa.

posted by sophieblue 16 March | 16:44

eggcorns? i saw a roadside sign today for a deal on a gourmet muffin and a cappucio. that's right. a cah-POO-chee-oh. how disgusting. oh, what a difference a consonent makes.

not quite an eggcorn, but disgusting sounding nun-the-less.

posted by shane 16 March | 17:03

Hey, it's better than a hot Capuchin... though I could maybe go with a room temp. Benedictine.

posted by taz 16 March | 17:08

The worst thing about that eggcorn thread was that once I read it I started noticing them elsewhere on the site (there a couple of eggcorns active over there right now, and one of them is one of the funniest I've seen in a long time). I was so tempted to link to it but resisted the urge to bring any other unfortunate souls into the fray!

Cappucio, yuck!

posted by sophieblue 16 March | 17:22

sophie, you're just going to leave me hanging like this? I haven't seen something as awesome as the eggcorn phenomenon in awhile. I've been laughing my ass off reading them.

posted by Frisbee Girl 16 March | 17:42

Hahaha! I can't stop laughing about the bear hands post linked from the meta thread, though I really shouldn't be; I find myself making more and more ad homonym errors. Or maybe that's just a pigment of my imagination.

posted by taz 16 March | 17:54

Ha!! Once during a very serious and intense talk with my boss and some co-workers, I announced that the data was skewered beyond recognition.

Nice!

posted by Frisbee Girl 16 March | 17:59

I know Taz, I'm the worst with those kinds of mistakes, that's probably why they crack me up. And Frisbee Girl, I'm so sorry! (I'm so tempted, too!) I think I'm going to wait until it has sunk out of sight and then maybe I'll start a thread here where I figure out a way of mentioning it without pointing directly to it.

(on preview: skewered!)

posted by sophieblue 16 March | 18:01

wow
you do akk know there is some agreed collective delusion going on here at 1411, right?
freaks.

posted by ethylene 17 March | 06:02

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