October 2011
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some peculiar halloween customs
On Halloween hang an apple by the door just the height of the chin. Rub the chin with saliva, stand about six inches from the apple, and hit the chin against the apple. If it sticks to the chin, you will be married, and your true love will stick to you.
On Halloween a girl is to go through a graveyard, steal a cabbage and place it above the house-door. The one on whom the cabbage falls as the...
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miscellaneous portmanteaux trois
every 400 days for the rest of my life, i plan to release a new batch of coined portmanteau words into the wild and see if any of them stick. 400 days ago, i told you about bar-b-coup and nonline which have since risen to #451 and #1,033 on the mla’s list of hot new words to watch out for™. 800 days ago, i told you about farticle and gratuitesque and now these two words alone comprise 40% of...
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some peculiar fan community nicknames
Avatards (Avatar: The Last Airbender or Avatar)
Buffistas (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Daisy-Pushers (Pushing Daisies)
Darklings (Darkwing Duck)
Dunderheads (US version of The Office)
Gleeks (Glee)
Heroes or Colbert Nation (The Colbert Report)
Leaper (Quantum Leap)
Lostralians (Lost)
Pokémaniac (Pokémon)
Sidekicks (Heroes)
Transfans (Transformers)
Wheel Watchers (Wheel of Fortune)
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blog like you live in south minneapolis day
for the three-year anniversary of the southtwelfth tumblr, i did my best to channel my inner andy and wrote a recap of all the latest glee webisodes. andy’s real recaps can be found here, here, and here.
webisode 04: in the tent city that sits in the shadow of prague’s charles bridge, jordyn discovers vaclav havel’s well-oiled body. she sings “dirge inferno” by cradle of filth while some...
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words wholly unrelated
[what the] dickens & [charles] dickens
“what the dickens” has long been the catchphrase of my parole officer. i always assumed it had something to do with charles dickens and was some whacky victorian euphemism—the way saying jiminy christmas is a way of not saying jesus christ. it turns out that “what the dickens” predates charles dickens and the victorian era by...
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another thing about cats: they can solve murders
From the Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, Lady Companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, I take the following scrap :— “An old woman, who died a few years ago, in Ireland, had a nephew, to whom she left by will all she possessed. She happened to have a favourite Cat, which never left her, and even remained by the corpse after her death. After the will was read, in the adjoining...
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