| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
-<Just for fun>-
_The New Yorker_ has a lot of "newsbreak" inserts -- little things
to finish off a page, and usually things that would entertain
JoyOfLexers. Among these is a section called "Block That Metaphor!"
I don't want to restrict this to _The New Yoprker_, but any good
metaphors worth blocking are welcome.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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From a recent issue:
[From the _Albany Times-Union_]
But a fellow user pushing for stricter security counters: "Perhaps
I am flogging a straw herring in midstream, but in light of what
is known about the ubiquity of security vulnerabilities, it seems
vastly too dangerous for university folk to run with their heads
in the sand."
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| 609.1 | That's a real knee-jerker, Steve! | BLAS03::FORBES | Bill Forbes - LDP Engrng | Mon Jan 09 1989 23:38 | 7 |
Re: .0
> "Perhaps I am flogging a straw herring in midstream...
If Bartlett were alive today he'd turn over in his grave!
Bill
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| 609.2 | But wait! There's more! | DECSIM::HEILMAN | Buckeroo Hanzai | Fri Jan 13 1989 18:21 | 4 |
Thanks Steve, for opening up a note devoted to this topic.
Notes 33.28, 33.30, and 33.31 contain some "Block that Metaphor"
entries from that New Yorker that I have already entered.
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