It really lands harshly on my ear when somebody uses the word ‘proximity’ with the useless descriptive appendage of ‘close’
brebro:
You know what bugs me? “SAFE haven.”
zen:
And of course we’re in redundancyLand where i’ve heard “ink pen,” “cash money” and “ATM machine.”
What are your word annoyances?
It starts off with a dashingly handsome young man, with big hands and even bigger feet, typing away at his desktop mac. Beside him is an unrolled cigarette of some kind, and a steaming cup of a dark-colored, bitter tea. His screens flickers an ugly image of white, green, pale blue and brown, and black type. He takes a deep, appreciative sip from the bitter, warm brew and lights the cigarette. Staring out the nearby window in a self-conscious ‘thoughtful’ pose, he pulls air deeply from the lit end of the cigarette into his lungs, holds for just a moment, and exhales with a calm sigh…
“Alright, let’s get to Boarding”, he mutters with a grin, and logs in to his account…
]]>Here’s my pull list for 9/4:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer #18
The Boys #22
Amazing Spider-Man #569 (missed last week due to UPS screwing up Chris’ order) & 570
Invincible Iron Man #5
Secret Invasion Front Line #3
X-Men Manifest Destiny #1 (Please don’t suck please don’t suck please don’t suck)
Plus whatever catches my eye or Chris at Pastimes highly recommends.
I was pretty cynical about the new Spidey plots (a freaking parkour criminal? Really?) but with the daughter of Kraven storyline and now having Romita on board for a while my opinion has changed.
I’m also psyched about Iron Man, a series I passed over initially as the usual money grubbing from Marvel. But my son spotted it one day as his comic of the week choice and after reading the first issue I grabbed the rest. Good stuff in there.
Will be avoiding like the plague: Marvel Monkeys. Monkeys? They ain’t no zombies, that’s for sure.
How about you guys?
]]>You state a five-letter word, for example:
GROPE
Then the next poster makes a five-word sentence using the last poster’s word as an acronym, for example:
Grabbing rumps on purpose excites!
(You get extra cred if your sentence relates to the word, though that’s not absolutely necessary.)
After writing your sentence, you then posit another 5-letter word for the next person out of which, to make a sentence. Such as:
CLUMP
Then the next poster writes something like:
Can’t Lysol® Unclog My Plumbing?
...and so on.. until hilarity ensues.
So, I’ll start it off with this word:
MARSH
]]>For instance ...
What do you get if you cross Dracula with Sir Lancelot?
A bite in shining armour.
And ...
A policeman stopped a man who was walking along with a bear and ordered him to take it to the zoo at once. The next day the policeman saw the same man with the same bear.
“I thought I told you to take that bear to the zoo,” he said.
“I did,” said the man, “and now I’m taking him to see a movie.”
So, let’s hear your favorite terrible jokes.
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