Lord of the G-Strings versus Pak Drac

Fleshbot quotes from the blurb of a moving picture that is unlikely to be showing at a cinema near you: In the mythical realm of Diddle Earth, diminutive yet delectable Throbbit Dildo Saggins is sent by Smirnoff the Wizard to destroy the legendary G-String – most powerful weapon in the land. We know, we do,…

Frank and the sons of Ishmael

I suggested to Mark Liberman the other day that the word Frank turns up in western Arabic in the C8th. A provisional apology is due because the first reference I’ve found in a hitherto brief search is not until the first half of the C9th, when ʻAbd al-Malik b Habīb (display problems?) of Granada uses…

estratègia de basura

un problema Del MediaDailyNews: [Un] estudi … [ha revelat] que els espectadors [americans] han d’aguantar un increïble 52 minuts de basura promocional durant un bloc típic de tres hores de prime time en les quatre cadenes principals. Aquesta xifra és 8% més que en 2000 i 36% més que en 1991… La durada mitja dels…

the yettis of hell

Sorry, but anyone tell me whether the following William Dunbar quote refers to the long battle by Dorset priests to rid their churches of scrumpy ‘n’ western, to yet another destruction of Leicester City FC’s charity team, or to skirmishes between farmers and those legendary mint tea-crazed monsters? Done is a battell on the dragon…

Kanjigate

Ben Berg: Kanjigate (v.). To write in kanji. Langmaker is a site for people who like creating new words and languages. Here’s the history of Chicken.

Soroll

Dos consellers municipals a Nova York, Eva Moskowitz i John Liu, han proposat la prohibició de la venda i instal·lació de alarmes de cotxe audibles dins la ciutat.