Seasonal Rotation of Catchphrases
Use:
Replaces "[o]ther than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
Citation:
8/31/10 Telegraph article. A man, sent by wife to kill spider behind toilet, sprays much aerosol insecticide. When burned-out light bulb thwarts ability to confirm kill, he ignites cigarette lighter and thus explosion, resulting in burns, ambulance, and quite the Bank Holiday.
Original context:
Picture caption for photograph of large, unrepentant arachnid.
Phrase:
"It is not known whether the spider survived."
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Use:
Replaces a variety of unpleasant phrases (most innocuously "up the wazoo") to suggest the painful insertion of onerous items and responsibilities.
Citation:
The Road to Wellville, T.C. Boyle (ch. 8, Changing the Flora)
Original context:
Dr. Kellogg somewhat vindictively prescribes a voluminous and mechanical colonic irrigation for an annoying spa patient.
Phrase:
"[T]aking the full gallonage".
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
What a delight! :D
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