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31 August 2007

Footnote game. Here's a text, numbered for footnotes; all you have to do is supply the notes themselves. Then, when all the footnotes are in, someone else can prepare a text.[More:]

From Tristan Egolf's Kornwolf:

"Her pronunciation1 of 'phone' had been laden with the Dutch2 Anal Pucker -- the Stepford drawl. Owen hadn't heard that lilt3 in years -- the nasally rolling 'oe' (with an umlaut) of 'Broeg's' a regional microbrewery4. Of 'poenies' galloping over a field. Of 'poems' by moonlight5. Of 'toetem' poles. And of secretaries6 named 'Joesie' on 'phoens' ...By slowing down the enunciation and rolling over, forward and back, the 'oe' while simultaneously curling the top lip7 sharply toward the nostrils -- thereby exposing the two front teeth (hence the 'anal' pucker) and pressing one's tongue almost flush with the roof of the mouth, then forcing a tonsillar bleat8 through that opening -- one may hope to re-create this phenomenon within a controlled environment9. Anyone who's ever left the county would have to recognize it as local stuff. Only the people of Stepford Town could demand of their faces10 the work of an anus."
For example:

1 - pronunciation, not to be confused with 'renunciation' or 'denunciation,' the prime movers of modern statecraft, fulfills here a dual role, delivering both slaw and beans, as noted by Gibbon, Decline (1876), p. 314. 15. D & F, pp. 315-16.
posted by Hugh Janus 31 August | 08:58
2- It is advisable for the novice to take note that in this, as with all other things Netherlandish, one must always ensure that one keeps all of ones fingers away from the mouth of the aptly named "Snappin' Dutch", their steady diet of soft white cheeses, rye crackers, Lebanese blond hash and piss videos ensures that they have enormous chisel-like front teeth and an insatiable lust for blood.
posted by Divine_Wino 31 August | 09:43
3- This was later revealed not to be a lilt at all, but a kind of parenthetical bleat or explosive yawp, in the manner of a rancid hotdog burp, too long suppressed.
posted by Divine_Wino 31 August | 11:31
4- Broeg's- One half star, recent comments by reviewers regarding Broeg's Double Stiff chanckerbock: "Gruesome!" "Who shit in this bottle of beer?" "Tell my wife I loved her."
posted by Divine_Wino 31 August | 11:36
5- van Beethoven, Ludwig; Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2.
posted by Hugh Janus 31 August | 11:53
6- Spelling hint: A secretary knows how to keep things secret.
posted by box 31 August | 12:03
7-Note that lip her refers to the shaped edge of a ready bucket of water, on which more soon in the section on volunteer fire management.
posted by cortex 31 August | 12:30
*where by "her" the author means "here", natch.
posted by cortex 31 August | 12:31
8- Tonsillar Bleat is the registered trademark and servicemark of The Rodney Mylar Radio Show, produced and distributed by Westwood One.
posted by wendell 31 August | 15:07
9- e.g. Disneyworld, or a casino
posted by box 31 August | 15:22
10 - Attempted by writ to the gernal citizenry four times from 1934-1939 by The Stepford Sphinctersnout Seven, a local agitation group also known for spiking the municipal drinking water with large amounts of ascerbic acid. Spawned popular slam poet and pickle fetishist group "The Motherpuckers"
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur 31 August | 15:55
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