Comments on: X, Y, and Z, oh my! http://snowclones.org/2007/05/22/x-y-and-z-oh-my/ Snowclones are the new eggcorns. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:51:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chris http://snowclones.org/2007/05/22/x-y-and-z-oh-my/#comment-3619 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:27:28 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2007/05/22/x-y-and-z-oh-my/#comment-3619 Andrew Sullivan used a variation of this one recently , but added a fourth member of the list. I consider this a bastardization of the pattern and rather unacceptable.

]]> By: a reminder on the definition of snowclone « The Snowclones Database http://snowclones.org/2007/05/22/x-y-and-z-oh-my/#comment-2547 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:06:07 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2007/05/22/x-y-and-z-oh-my/#comment-2547 [...] “playful allusion”, a user need not be aware of its origin when using it–that is, X and Y and Z, oh my! is not entirely a snowclone because we always know we’re calling up The Wizard of Oz when [...]

]]> By: (give|bring) me your poor, your tired, your X « The Snowclones Database http://snowclones.org/2007/05/22/x-y-and-z-oh-my/#comment-2013 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:34:20 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2007/05/22/x-y-and-z-oh-my/#comment-2013 [...] The huddled masses are still most common in this phrase, followed by criminal masses1, hungry, and then there a few variations that don’t quite fit the “immigrant” frame set up by this quote: old sewing machines [pdf], dirty bombs. So it would seem that variation in this snowclone is not as wide as in some of the others I’ve covered–the X really is mostly limited to the set of things (people) that can at the same time be described as “poor” and “tired”. This list of descriptors may not be as tangentially related to each other as X, Y and Z sometimes are in “X and Y and and Z, oh my!“ [...]

]]> By: snowclones http://snowclones.org/2007/05/22/x-y-and-z-oh-my/#comment-19 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:01:48 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2007/05/22/x-y-and-z-oh-my/#comment-19 I wouldn’t say so, but I don’t have access to a way to search journalistic text from more than ten years ago that might support my assertion.

]]> By: hanmeng http://snowclones.org/2007/05/22/x-y-and-z-oh-my/#comment-11 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:46:46 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2007/05/22/x-y-and-z-oh-my/#comment-11 Thanks so much for this. I was never much exposed to the wizard, so it may just be me, but didn’t this suddenly became popular starting about ten years ago?

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