On Sunday I gave a presentation on snowclones at BarCamp San Diego. Here are my slides. After the talk, we had a good discussion about the nature of snowclones, and a couple of snowclones that I don’t yet have queued up to add here were suggested. (“</X>”, “Xgate”.)
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Recent Entries
- the snowclones database is not dead, long live the snowclones database
- in the wild: X do it like Y
- this is your brain on X
- call for variations: I [shape] X
- a couple of links
- a reminder on the definition of snowclone
- The Talented Mr. X
- status report
- “Snowclone Is The New Cliché”
- my kingdom for a(n?) X
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- Buch von der deutschen Snowclonerey
- Erin O’Connor
- Fritinancy
- Language Hat
- Language Log
- Poor Man’s Version
- separated by a common language
- snowclone.pl
- Tenser, said the Tensor
- the Eggcorn Database
- The Rosa Parks of Blogs
- Wikipedia’s Snowclone entry
- XKCD
- Yet Another List of Confirmed and Tentative Snowclones
