go out on a whim a chip of the iceberg a whole other bag of worms got into a scruffle calm as a cucumber got off stock-free get the jest of it happy as a lamb ship of Thesis
i've been putting on a lot of youtube as background noise because I have crippling ADHD and here are some delightful phrases i've heard people use
if you have to ask
being eviscerated by the group chat for my lack of irony poisoning
recusing myself from this bit because I watched it too recently not to be sincere lmao
I can’t tell if you’re joking but he breaks bad as in turns bad, he is the guy who knocks etc etc
correct
Walt should be on this list
On name aversion, "handfeel," and glottalization, with musical accompaniment from "My Fair Lady."
Ht @benzimmer.bsky.social @ran-arigur.bsky.social @byagoda.bsky.social @samcorbin.bsky.social
fritinancy.substack.com/p/a-name-tha...
for any knives out-franchise or star wars fans: today’s wordplay guest columnist is none other than @rianjohnson.bsky.social!!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...
ours btw
a good thing to do for your mental health if you are a dog owner is to search the breed mix of your dog on google and stare at all of her twins
The biggest obstacle to this website's growth is that almost all of its user base goes to bed at 8 pm
please I am begging you not to tell me to “prepare for an epic day” please
A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded
I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames
while we’re at it pay no attention to when I am posting this either
the time stamp on my text message is none of your concern
More linkstack thanks to @samcorbin.bsky.social @metafilter.bsky.social and @moderntoss.bsky.social! fritinancy.substack.com/p/february-l...
no disrespect to the ancient Roman Republic but couldn’t they have at least put their name in alphabetical order? PQRS was right there
five-year-old came home from school today with chocolate milk stains on every inch of her clothing. “It consploded,” she explains
Thanks to technology, bananas are becoming obsolete as pretend phones. The future belongs to the Pop-Tart.
iambic tetrameter ass stick
it’s so funny to see a mother scolding her son for lightly punching a snowman that is just sitting on a curb
"If we’re meant to hear 'watermelon water,' why are we reading WTRMLN WTR?"
@samcorbin.bsky.social quotes me and @operativewords.com in her new @nytimes.com piece, "The SYRN Call of Oddly Spelled Brand Names."
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/c...
this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”
can’t help but hear undertones of “mueller flipped gorpman (who could testify against bleemer!)” in the message I sent the chat: “ebay acquired depop (which was owned by etsy!)”
was fun to yap on the radio about the never-ending slangassaince!
youtu.be/ckzLouiWNMY
I imagine it was extremely disturbing
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
president’s day much!!!
if I didn’t realize it was a friday before, I sure do now: just reread a line of my column about some symbols and saw that I’d called them “simbles”
