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Comment on tangram by What is a tangram | Tangram Online

What is a tangram | Tangram Online — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:00:38 +0000

[...] tangram « Word Du Jour – tangram. A tangram (pronounced tan-gram – tricky, eh?) is something which used to amuse and frustrate me as a child. It is a square divided up into the following: five isosceles triangles, one square and one parallelogram. … [...]

Comment on Krazy Keltic or Silly Seltic? by Simon

Simon — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:53:37 +0000

Been investigating the Celtic-matter for myself the last couple of yours. One objection that I came across, one that I find worth raisin: if we are to go KELLtik we should for the same reason go KAEsar and KEKILia.

Comment on Stan the Man – Deep Thorkus by Charles Trucock

Charles Trucock — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:42:14 +0000

The grape and grold Professy Stanley Unwin was a truebold joylode who broughtit most laughters and deep joy to the peoploders bothly on the wirelessy radiole and on the televode in latterly daylodes. Professy Stanley also appearit in severole flimmers amongy whichof were – Carry Ocus, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and withit Bill Wyman of Rolling Stokers famebole in Digital Day Dreams

He will be remembrit

Goon And Nokkers Forgottibole

Comment on A Word From Daphne – Turpid by Maggie Holden

Maggie Holden — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:39:01 +0000

Used the word turpid this evening and it made entire sense to me – means lazing in the sun (metaphor) ie. turtle like, slow and satisfied with the here and now etc. (ie. not cottoned -on, a bit of a wallower, not sharp). As opposed to torpid, which means to me, full, lazy and inanimate because satieted.

Comment on Missing Letters by Henry

Henry — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:58:19 +0000

I don’t think eth is the symbol generally used for partial derivatives: instead that symbol ∂ does not have a stroke or bar and looks more like a backward curving delta or a reverse six. Partial derivatives are not that mindnumbing, as they are just rates of change ceteris paribus.

Eth ð does have a stroke or bar, and is apparently used in Spin-weighted spherical harmonics, one of those topics which strings together ordinary English words in a form that only the initiated members of the cult can understand.

Comment on Internet Slang by larry tay

larry tay — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:43:04 +0000

thanks,now I know what 555 means in my Thai friends’ mails. LOL

Comment on Calathumpian by Nelson Denton

Nelson Denton — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:15:49 +0000

My older dicitonaries give Calathumpian as a noisy party or parade or festival such as were often held at country weddings and such. Often a noisy gang of friends who would tease a wedding couple on their honeymoon night with catcalls and ribald songs etc. (Hence the out of tune marching band idea). Also a noisy heckler at a political event who would boldly point out the flaws in a politician’s speech or party’s platform.

Reformed Calathumpian – One who challenges the commonly held views of others which are soley based on peer pressure or majority views- not neccesarily common sense. Their patron saint is the little boy who said “But the Emperor has no clothes”

Comment on Well, hello stranger… by Tom Joad

Tom Joad — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:09:36 +0000

You may be in luck there, Autolycus. A Swedish friend of mine – who not only shares the distinction of being this blog’s other reader, but is also a typeface fiend) may have found the very thing. Once I have done the necessary jiggery-pokery to make the font work, I’ll get onto it.

Comment on Well, hello stranger… by Autolycus

Autolycus — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:30:27 +0000

I’m all agog to hear about Futharks. To my prosaic mind, it suggests “waiting for the other boot to fall”.

Comment on Crash Blossoms by dan bloom

dan bloom — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:41:48 +0000

Dear Tom,
as the title of that movie goes ….FORGIVEN. I make more gaffes than anyone else, so I know. My middle name is MISTAKE. My second middle name is TYPO. My third middle name is O FORGET IT! Ben There Dan That.
As for atomic typos, do blog on those and my snailpaper song now getting oogles of google hits now on YuToob, give it a listen titled “I Just Can’t Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)…” when time allows….as for my internet fame, it is an illusion. Fame is an illusion. I do not even exist. I am merely an avatar now, having passed into oblivion on Nov. 6, 2009 when I had my fatal heart attack. oi.