Saturday, April 30, 2011

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Somewhere traverse to the variegation, bluebirds flat-hat.


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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Your Eyes Are Bigger Than Your Stomach

Your oculi are more commodious than the amplitude of your viscera.


This date in history: Birthdays - William Shakespeare, Shirley Temple, and Roy Orbison.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Curiosity Killed the Cat

Officiousness extirpated the grimalkin.

This date in history: Birthdays - Peter Frampton, Jack Nicholson, and Ryan Stiles.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Elvis: I get so lonely, I could die

"I get so troglodytic, I could capitulate."


This date in history: April 21, 1956, Elvis Presley gets his first top hit album, as Heartbreak Hotel hits #1.



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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Madonna: I'm like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me

"I'm consubstantial to a cockroach, you can't just disencumber yourself with me."


This date in history: April 20, 1992, Madonna signs a $60 million deal with Time Warner.












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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Howard Dean: I've waffled before, I'll waffle again

"I've equivocated precendently, I'll equivocate reiteratively."


This day in history: April 19, 1839, the Treaty of London is signed, establishing Belgium as a kingdom. I'm a big fan of their waffles.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Ford Mustang: All legend, zero compromise

"All cipher, cipher conciliation."


This day in history: April 17, 1964. Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair.






Note:(I used 'cipher' two different ways. Cipher can mean 'legend' as in something used to decode symbols on a map. Cipher also means zero.)


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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Charlie Chaplin's most famous quote: "..."

"..." (laconism)


This day in history: April 16, 1889, birthday of Charles Chaplin, English actor and filmmaker.






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Friday, April 15, 2011

Jackie Robinson: Life is not a spectator sport

"Being contemporary is not a gaiety of deponents ."


This day in history: April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.




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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Volvo: For life!

"For vicissitude"


This day in history: April 14th, 1927, the first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.





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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

James C. Penney: The greatest teacher I know is the job itself

"The paragon of inculcation I apperceive is the billet, intrinsically."



This date in history: April 13, 1902,  J.C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.


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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Bill Clinton: What the meaning of "is" is

"It is predicated on what the quintessence of the lexeme "is" perdures."


This date in history:
April 12, 1999, Bill Clinton was found in contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony about his relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Quotes Too True to Be Good: Brittany Spears

"I can peregrinate to multifarious transoceanic purlieus...like Canada!"


What she actually said was, "I get to go to lots of oversea places...like Canada!"

Quotes Too True to Be Good: Al Gore

"A striped perissodactyl does not experience vicissitudes of its mottles."


What he really said was, "A zebra does not change its spots."

Quotes Too True to Be Good: Brooke Shields

"Smoking immolates. If you are immolated, you've capitulated a very salient constituent of your quiddity."


What she actually said was, "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Spoonerism # 3: He was killed by a blushing crow...

...or was that a crushing blow?


He was extirpated by a verucund corvis.

Spoonerism #2: A vast display of cattleships and bruisers...

...or was that battleships and cruisers?


A voluminous pretension of bovid-ships and pugilists

Spoonerism #1: We'll have the hags flung out

...or was it have the flags hung out?


We'll elicit the viragos to be jettisoned.