The word of the night is deprivation.
Deprivation reminds me of another recent word, denude. If privation is the lack of essentials, shouldn’t DEprivation mean the removal from that condition?
IMpure evil
A movie trailer has a character described as “pure evil.”
Now I want to write a character of impure evil. She’ll kill you, but you can fool around a little first.
Reversion, though, implies a lower plane…
I just got an e-mail inviting me to join a spiritual organization whose beliefs include reincarnation, and who said “And if you are interested kindly revert back to us for more details”.
Hmm. If I did that, what would I be reverting back to? What do they know that I don’t?
(I don’t believe in reincarnation. But my past self did.)
I’d… rather not, thanks
The local radio news reported at the bottom of the hour that we are “about to get another taste of Old Man Winter.” Ewww.
The plot thickens…
Just exactly how does ‘the plot thicken?’ Do you use cornstarch or flour or arrowroot, or do you just cook it down like a reduction?
Ubiquitous
The word of the night is ubiquitous.
just remember, there is no ‘quit’ in ubiquitous.
Wait, that’s not it.
There is no ‘I’ in ubiquitous.
No, that’s wrong too.
You can’t spell ubiquitous without ‘us.’ It’d just be ubiquito.
Another mixed metaphor
The next inexplicable mixed metaphor, heard on a Canadian radio broadcast, said of an American Presidential candidate:
“He burned all the branches and opened the floodgates!”
Uh… wouldn’t opening the floodgates put out the burning branches?
Mixed metaphor of the day
The mixed metaphor of the day seen online:
“… Skip the hand wringing… and… get on board to come down into the trenches”
“It was a complete 360!
Heard in a radio ad, from a woman who was extolling the service she got from a local car dealer: “It was a complete 360 compared with the Volkswagon dealer I dealt with down South.”
Oooo…kay….
National Sandwich Day
On the beach, I shouted, “It’s safe to come out! It’s National Sand Witch Day!”
“#NationalSandwichDay,” she said from behind the dune. “Not the same thing.”