When you say, "It seems as if it's become much more common lately than it used to be", do you mean, "people have done this thing on a few recent Unfogged threads"? Because I don't think we're a representative sample.
JRoth, I mean, I—ugh. I don't even know what to say.
For one thing, there's a huge over-sampling of people from or in Pittsburgh.
Apophenia. Also, as usual, Burroughs was there first.
If a West Elm catalogue has the quip "Nautical By Nature" by a caption, are they riffing on "Naughty By Nature"? Or is this ridiculous to even consider?
"Inspired by buoys floating on the ocean, these glass vases make waves mixed in with the ocean-blue hues of our Pacific Vase collection."
"Vertical Challenge. The Camden Stripe Rug's wide tonal bands can make a room look larger. Lay it horizontally to fake a wider look and vertically to make a room seem longer."
There's no fixed orientation to a room. Fools.
8: Of course they are. Pointless allusions are all that keep catalog writers going.
Does vertically mean hang it on the wall? Because unless your room is on gimbals, that vertical orientation is fixed.
Weird, I just ran across apophenia when looking up morphic resonance today.
Weird, I just got to The Emerson Dining Table. Are they talking about our John?
"This trestle-style dining table and bench shows the knots and natural imperfections that make every table subtly one of a kind."
"Camille Planters. 'Mix plantings of different colors, textures and forms - a strappy upright element next to static rosettes and something with a nice mounding form,' says Judy."
"Andromeda Planters. 'Sometimes, I'll put a pair of tall planters flanking a doorway as a welcoming marker. Then, I plant them with a sculptural, shorter element, like pineapple-shape agave, which looks graphic."
a strappy upright element next to static rosettes and something with a nice mounding form
That's clearly copied from at least a bodice ripper if not actually, but over-wrought porn.
Sometimes you put out bait, sometimes the fish don't bite.
Sometimes all you catch is a Moby.
And white whale is the lowest difficulty setting.
I prefer to use "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" to mean "Aimless Western European leftist terrorist group".
22: so what do you call the Democrats?
I feel like I've seen comment 7 before.
Your stats teacher's syllabus maybe?
I've never seen Repo Man. I'm not sure if this is on topic or not.
I wasn't allowed to see R movies when it came out and couldn't really skirt the rule because the only movie theater was owned by people who knew me.
Who discusses the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, so called, ever? Because I wanna hang with them.
I challenge anyone to mention something I was just thinking about recently.
I challenge anyone to mention something I was just thinking about recently.
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon?
It's like you read my mind. Also apricots.
Apricots aren't weird; apricots are awesome. I meant the rest of the thread.
Andromeda Planters. 'Sometimes, I'll put a pair of tall planters flanking a doorway as a welcoming marker...
And then I'll plant them with a mystery virus from outer space.
15, 18: Didn't someone around here say recently "You guys need to remember that normal people aren't like you: their minds don't immediately jump to the most obscene interpretation of every sentence."
Normal people don't apply themselves. I make my own luck obscenity.
Today's graduates should learn from Moby and pull themselves off by their own bootstraps.
"Hey you kids! Get off on my lawn."
I'm feeling called to learn from Moby and go eat a bag of Swedish fish, but so far I'm resisting.
Pornography, I know it when I see.
Potter Stewart and Tom Lehrer were my heroes during my formative years.
I had a low carb breakfast. Eggs, sausage, and potatoes.
I think I'll be able to pass on the Swedish Fish today because of the potatoes.
We're finally having the thread that neb envisioned. The little pervert.
Compared to the universe where I ate six donuts.
In what universe is the random Moby Hick comment to be taken at face value?
If you eat nothing but donuts long enough any diet is low carb.
10: That only works on you perceptually challenged Westerners.
10: how exactly does one lay a rug vertically? Hang it on a wall?
55: In the long run we will all be on low carb diets.