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October 06, 2006
i can't help it, sorry
Nels used a great word a few days ago:
embiggen.
I'm a huge fan of word-creation. Here, he turns an adjective into a verb. And I love making words into verbs. Reading this word today MADE MY DAY. (Well, my day wasn't all that, see.)
Plus, the comic he posts is a funny Dilbert one about authorship (Bex will appreciate...) AND it reminds me (because it refers to a white whale) of a Weird Al Yankovic song that I haven't heard yet but I'd like to:
"White and Nerdy" (parody of "Ridin' Dirty").
Because I grew up on "Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch." And "King of Suede."
Plus, I like nerds. But you all knew that.
Posted by mryonker at October 6, 2006 09:23 PM
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I know the song! It's my brother's profile song on MySpace. (he is, in fact, white and nerdy) Here's Wierd Al's MySpace page where you can hear the song:
http://www.myspace.com/weirdal
Enjoy!
Posted by: Sarah at October 6, 2006 10:27 PM
Too funny. Whiter than sour cream! Good gravy. Thanks for the link, Sarah.
Posted by: madeline at October 6, 2006 10:56 PM
As I struggled to squeeze in time to write my Watson paper, I jotted notes like mad. And then, when I sat down to write this (I won't say when...or where...) I kept staring at these initials on a yellow legal pad: EBIGFY. What could this mean? What message was I trying to send myself? Did I mean "embiggen"? Or "biggify"?
But no. This is the acronym for the book I was working from. More sleep. Now.
Posted by: susansinclair at October 7, 2006 07:51 PM