Posts by Andre Alessi
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When I control all the keyboards in the world, people who put two spaces after full stops will be hit on the head with the automatedrubber mallet attached to their monitor.
You'll need an especially extreme one for me since I do exactly the same thing in text messages.
The predictive texting dictionary on my phone is quite possibly the only one in existence that has been trained with "verisimilitude", "lugubrious", "Takapuna" and "unprepossessing", all with the appropriate variants for capitalisation.
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"Peripatetic" is one of those wonderful words like "defenestration" that restores grandeur to entirely ordinary activities.
I had no clue what peripatetic meant until I read some background on Aristotle-he and his students would often wander about outside Athens, hence the name of his lyceum: the Peripatetic School.
Perhaps said All Black was implying he too grappled with the mysteries of the universe?
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So, how does one pronounce 'teh'?
'the' or 'teh'?
...did I mention I'm still having nightmares about that "Should 'anal retentive' have a hyphen?" thing? :(
I usually say "teh" because I like to inject a little Te Reo into the World Wide Web.
Another word up for consideration:
unbundling.
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I've heard it used differently - to rhyme with twinned.
As usual, Wikipedia has more on the topic than anyone will ever need to know.
I'm asking TotalFark too, this mystery must not go unsolved!
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pwned
And no one knows how to pronounce it.Po-n'd. As in "My Little Pwnies" (my favourire World of Warcraft gild name.)
Or "owned", either works.
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Cancerous?
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No comment on the Farnham thing though... ;-)
Good call. I was devastated to learn I didn't have the necessary neck hair to grow a decent mullet, so it's still a bit of a sore point for me.
Ah, the tribulations of being twelve...
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The funny thing about concerts is that they do tend to make a believer out of you. Maybe it's just that so much of our perceptions of musicians nowadays have little or nothing to do with their music, and so much about everything else.
I remember a truly glorious experience seeing the Smashing Pumpkins play at the Supertop in '97 (IIRC) and going from an interested observer to an obsessive fan over the course of the night. Simply being in that sweaty, rapturous crowd was a wonderful introduction, and the band were (at that stage) still tight, lean and hungry-the light show was straight out of 1970, but it didn't make it any less enjoyable.
A similar experience was (stretching back a bit) John Farnham of all people, playing in a sheep paddock at the Hastings Showgrounds in the late 80's. (His parents lived in Havelock North, so it was a bit of a lark for the Blond Mullet, I think.) The entire town turned out, laying blankets out over the sheep poo, reinforcing the idea that it was The Concert of the Century (remember, Farnsey was a superstar here for a while.) I memorised the words to "You're The Voice" that night, and would get a little bit choked up every time I heard it for years afterwards.
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It reminded me in some ways of Brasseye
Jeremy Wells is Christopher Morris. It's basically The Day Today for New Zealanders, but it doesn't usually go to the quite absurd extremes (Cake? Bomb dogs?) and focuses more on the minutae of whatever's flavour of the week in the New Zealand news.
It has its good shows and its bad shows like every straight-faced comedy show, so it's worth trying a few episodes (particularly from the first season) on for size.
(The "F*ck News" one stands out in my mind as a brilliant one, mainly because...well, yeah.)
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There was a great shout from the workstation behind me that Lo! The Don was gone. And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, and mine ears were filled with the lamentations of women.