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"What a year it’s been! From a question-asking parrot to how we could all have ended up answering the telephone, here are Haggard Hawks’ Top 30 tweets of 2020" (SingleThreadLanguageTwitter). A small bit of wordy fun for the end of 2020. May your 2021 bring respair!
I will definitely be overmusing these legumes
posted by BrotherCaine at 3:33 PM on December 31, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by BrotherCaine at 3:33 PM on December 31, 2020 [7 favorites]
"A QUOCKERWODGER—literally, a wooden puppet—is a politician whose ‘strings’ are pulled by someone else."
This definitely needs to be part of MeFi parlance in the politics threads.
posted by NotTheRedBaron at 4:05 PM on December 31, 2020
This definitely needs to be part of MeFi parlance in the politics threads.
posted by NotTheRedBaron at 4:05 PM on December 31, 2020
This post is a real HUNDSLAPPA
...is how I think that word should be used. I assume that if hundslappadrífa means snow as big as dog paws, hundslappas are themselves dog paws. And that is how I shall refer to them evermore.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 4:13 PM on December 31, 2020 [1 favorite]
...is how I think that word should be used. I assume that if hundslappadrífa means snow as big as dog paws, hundslappas are themselves dog paws. And that is how I shall refer to them evermore.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 4:13 PM on December 31, 2020 [1 favorite]
Better paws than bollocks, I suppose.
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:38 PM on December 31, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:38 PM on December 31, 2020 [1 favorite]
His last words before his death in 2007 were, “You be good. See you tomorrow. I love you.”
Now I'm crying about a dead parrot
posted by Saxon Kane at 4:54 PM on December 31, 2020 [9 favorites]
Now I'm crying about a dead parrot
posted by Saxon Kane at 4:54 PM on December 31, 2020 [9 favorites]
This is the clam's garters, thanks!
posted by calamari kid at 5:00 PM on December 31, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by calamari kid at 5:00 PM on December 31, 2020 [2 favorites]
Probably the most important word to know, in case someone shouts it at you, is ucalegon which means a neighbor whose house in on fire.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 7:45 PM on December 31, 2020
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 7:45 PM on December 31, 2020
"Ucalegon, take me away!"
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:03 PM on December 31, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:03 PM on December 31, 2020 [3 favorites]
His last words before his death in 2007 were, “You be good. See you tomorrow. I love you.”
Now I'm crying about a dead parrot
posted by Saxon Kane at 4:54 PM on December 31
It’s okay. I am too. It’s been that kind of year; at some point in 2020, each of us was crying over a dead parrot.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 10:16 PM on December 31, 2020
Now I'm crying about a dead parrot
posted by Saxon Kane at 4:54 PM on December 31
It’s okay. I am too. It’s been that kind of year; at some point in 2020, each of us was crying over a dead parrot.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 10:16 PM on December 31, 2020
... it’s pining for the fjords!
(really every time I read about that parrot I think, “I’ll try Alex, I promise I’ll give it my best”)
That was a very satisfactory list. Thank you.
posted by From Bklyn at 12:50 AM on January 1, 2021
(really every time I read about that parrot I think, “I’ll try Alex, I promise I’ll give it my best”)
That was a very satisfactory list. Thank you.
posted by From Bklyn at 12:50 AM on January 1, 2021
we say ‘salt and pepper’, and never ‘pepper and salt’
Except we do.
To act BORIS-NORIS is to act “blindly, without any thought of risk or decency”.
In 19th century English, the expression ‘Come, come, that’s Barnard Castle!’ was used as a response to someone who had offered a flawed excuse for their actions.
Ha!
posted by Grangousier at 3:21 AM on January 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
Except we do.
To act BORIS-NORIS is to act “blindly, without any thought of risk or decency”.
In 19th century English, the expression ‘Come, come, that’s Barnard Castle!’ was used as a response to someone who had offered a flawed excuse for their actions.
Ha!
posted by Grangousier at 3:21 AM on January 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
This may go without saying, but a bunch of these are our best guesses, not beyond doubt. "Scholars think it's most likely that" doesn't make for a punchy start to a tweet, but worth keeping in mind before passing these along.
posted by ecreeves at 7:53 AM on January 1, 2021
posted by ecreeves at 7:53 AM on January 1, 2021
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posted by Sterros at 3:25 PM on December 31, 2020 [4 favorites]