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Conference thebay::joyoflex

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

1020.0. "Superb Owls" by RDVAX::KALIKOW (This p_n has been BozoFiltered) Mon Feb 01 1993 19:26

    My daughter reports that the spell-checker on her computer 
    doesn't recognize the phrase  "super bowl".  Instead it suggests 
    that what she _really_ meant to say was "superb owl".
    
Now surely there is a whole class of space-isms that are possible here.  
    
    Genre alert...?
    
    (Trouble is -- I've been racking my brain and can't come up with any
    yet!)
    
    Help, JoyOfLexers...
    
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1020.1CSC32::D_DERAMODan D'Eramo, Customer Support CenterTue Feb 02 1993 07:073
        Have an ice day.
        
        Dan
1020.2I _knew_ there were more...RDVAX::KALIKOWThis p_n has been BozoFilteredTue Feb 02 1993 08:452
    That demonstrated Superb Owlish creativity, O snarfish one...  Thanks!
    
1020.3Lighthouse-keeping => Light house-keepingRDVAX::KALIKOWDo While(Lather Rinse) AArgh!Wed Feb 03 1993 08:522
       does that count?  It's pretty close, give or take an :-) hyphen...
    
1020.4CSC32::D_DERAMODan D'Eramo, Customer Support CenterWed Feb 03 1993 11:015
> It's pretty close...
        
        It' snot close enough. :-)
        
        Dan
1020.5SMURF::BINDERQui scire uelit ipse debet discereWed Feb 03 1993 12:033
    I like my chickens not too well baked.
    
    He likes his chicken snot too well baked.
1020.6Needs an apostrophe...VMSMKT::KENAHShedding the homespunWed Feb 03 1993 19:363
    Do you think I'm possible?  Impossible!
    
    					andrew
1020.7Apostrophizing the 'RDVAX::KALIKOWDo While(Lather Rinse) AArgh!Wed Feb 03 1993 20:0413
          Hey, Apostrophe!  You're really cute in that context!  
    
    :-)
    
    I think, just to keep them cards 'n letters coming, that we oughts to
    allow punctuation in these here Superb Owls.  Perhaps these should be
    classed slightly lower than the angels, as "Superb Owlets"... ?
    
    Thanks Andrew...  For that, I promise not to groan the next time you "do
    your thing" in Word Association Football...
    
      (I suppose I shouldn't complain, you never miss the litter-BOX)
    
1020.8VMSMKT::KENAHShedding the homespunThu Feb 04 1993 10:5010
    >Thanks Andrew...  For that, I promise not to groan the next time you "do
    >your thing" in Word Association Football...
    >
    >  (I suppose I shouldn't complain, you never miss the litter-BOX)
    
    Actually, I've so many others so well trained, I don't have to do it
    nearly as often...  
    
    					andrew
    
1020.9Here Safe WDWOVAX::ROSENBERGHAL/IBM -- VMS/W(indows)NTThu Feb 04 1993 14:0926
    Here's a few, methinks?  (I'm know in this neetsfile, er'
    				   new in this notesfile, so please don't
    				      hit me!)
    
    Regular
    =======
       Manslaughter -- Man's laughter
    
       Justice -- Just Ice
    
       Overtone -- Overt One
      
       Genetic -- Gene Tic
    
       Tiered -- Tie Red
    
    NC-17
    =====
       Studio -- Stud I/O  (hiss)
    
       Tea-tray -- (nevermind)
    
    FINALE
    ======
       Bartender --> (Simpson Terminator) --> Bart Ender
       
1020.10Much less fun than Superb Owls...VMSMKT::KENAHShedding the homespunThu Feb 04 1993 14:353
    Is it so?  Him -- therapist -- the rapist?
    
    					andrew
1020.11Re .9 ::Rosenberg -- nice deb�t!!RDVAX::KALIKOWDo While(Lather Rinse) AArgh!Thu Feb 04 1993 16:191
                                  �� Welcome !!
1020.12computer utility, and Dutch Superb OwlsHLDE01::STEENWINKELWitty phraseFri Feb 05 1993 02:1220
    Just a moment ago I was looking at a directory listing which contained
    the file
    
       machost
    
    Now, is this some utility to have a Mac function as a server, or
    would it be useful to make an Atari (ST) more impressive?
    
    A Dutch computer scientist, writer and columnist, Hugo Brandt Corstius,
    has written 'Opperlandse Taal- en Letterkunde'. Calling this the
    Dutch-JOYOFLEX-in-print would not be far off the mark. In it is a list 
    of (Dutch, unfortunately) words that have created, by incorrect
    hyphenation, an entire new class of fauna. If someone else in here
    knows Dutch (but not the book) I'll enter it (would be a little
    pointless otherwise).
    


                                                  - Stoneshop -
    
1020.13leg endFORTY2::KNOWLESDECspell snot awl ewe kneedFri Feb 05 1993 04:365
    And to go with "therapist", a time-honoured legend of OUP compositors
    minding their Ps and Qs (qv), there's "legend" (aka `foot' or
    `pelvis').
    
    b
1020.14RDVAX::KALIKOWDoes 'balk' come from 'Balkan'?Fri Feb 05 1993 06:312
    Kinda lends new meaning to the phrase "A leg end in his own time..."    :-)
    
1020.15THEBAY::GOODMANwalking on broken glass...Wed Feb 10 1993 14:418
    I've been looking for a place to use the phrase "to get her together"
    for some time.
    
    I suppose I've now found the place.
    
    Cheers,
    
    Roy
1020.16Free zealot with every purchaseESGWST::RDAVISRay ShakeyTue Apr 13 1993 17:102
    No mean Alaskan city.
    
1020.17ESGWST::RDAVISRay ShakeyTue Apr 13 1993 17:2611
    	SURGE ON, GENERAL SWARNING, SURGE ON!
    		-- a Cautionary Soliloquy in 2 Acts, by Victor Ian
    
    Act I: 
    
      Lo, gin!
    
    Act II:
    
      Lo, gout.
    
1020.18(-: re .16/.17 :-)RDVAX::KALIKOWSupplely ChainedTue Apr 13 1993 18:284
    Very impressive & fun, thanks!!
    
    Dan
    
1020.19GAVEL::PCLX31::satowgavel::satow or @msoWed Apr 14 1993 09:237
One I remember from a "Farmers' Almanac" of a long time ago.  It was claimed 
to be an inscription over an old English inn.  At first glance it appears to 
be Latin, but it isn't.

	Ores tabit fortis arare placet orestat.

Clay
1020.20who's in whose belly?WMOIS::KOWALEWICZ_MMirabile visu !Thu May 06 1993 10:015
maneating shark
man eating shark

kb
1020.21a coupleFSOA::BERICSONMRO1-1/L87 DTN 297-3200Fri May 14 1993 06:577
    Ground swell
    Grounds well
    
    toastmaster
    toast master