Random Thursday (ˈrandəm ˈTHərzdā): the day on which Sarah plunks down all the odd bits and pieces she’s been sent by friends or has otherwise stumbled upon in an effort to avoid writing a real post, the assembly of which usually ends up taking twice as much time as sitting down and creating actual content.
And here we go!
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Enough Said
Especially inside.
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Wait . . . Play it Again. Cool!
I played this for three people. This is exactly what they said, with some variation on the last exclamation.
See what exclamations you get!
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One Purse to Rule Them All
One day last week, Watson found online instructions for turning books into purses.
She thought about it for a day or so, sent me a slightly disturbing e-mail about hot glue guns, made a supply trip to the craft store and the secondhand book shop . . .
then made this:
After we all asked her for one,* we mentioned how sad it was that she had to throw away the insides of the book.
She agreed.
But a few days ago, she found this:
Hmmm . . .
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Has Anyone Seen my Car Keys?
(the titles of these posts don’t lie, people)
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It’s all in the Delivery
This vid is meant to accompany James Harbeck’s brilliant article, “A linguistic dissection of 7 annoying teenage sounds.”
So go read it.
The next time I hear one of these, I’m going to be tempted to tell Janie to put more emphasis on the glottal fricative and try it again.
Except she probably would. In front of her grandmother.
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*I thought Sherlock Holmes for me, but considering my Bag of All Holding, Watson and my MIL thought the OED would be a better, pun totally intended, fit. Jane asked for the dictionary, but she admitted she just wanted us to stop making her use it.
Earful of Cider 