Comments on: call for variations: I [shape] X

By: Humor is a harsh mistress | Ninth Circle Design

Humor is a harsh mistress | Ninth Circle Design — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:04:01 +0000

[...] [shamrock] Guinness” but giggle every time I see “I [food cart] street food” (via snowclones.org). Conjoining beer with trite stereotypes is dull as ditchwater, coming off as no more than bland [...]

By: Do you ♥ words with no letters? « Sentence first

Do you ♥ words with no letters? « Sentence first — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:54:40 +0000

[...] ♥ X” is a very productive snowclone, while the more convenient sideways heart <3 is rife in informal contexts both online and off. [...]

By: verbal “heart” added to the OED | The Snowclones Database

verbal “heart” added to the OED | The Snowclones Database — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:12:17 +0000

[...] power of “I [heart] X” is now such that the transitive verb “to heart” (spelled out, or written as [...]

By: I [shape] X roundup | The Snowclones Database

I [shape] X roundup | The Snowclones Database — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:51:07 +0000

[...] by snowclones| Leave a comment It’s time some of the excellent submissions to the “I [shape] X” entry got their own post. The selections displayed here do not cover all the comments on [...]

By: Mark Mandel

Mark Mandel — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:05:52 +0000

That is cute. Unfortunately the cuteness in “I street food” is only visible by following the link; if you pasted a graphic there, the webpage doesn’t show it.

By: Jonathan Adams

Jonathan Adams — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:30:27 +0000

Another cute variation is "I street food", which has the added humor of rhyming with "heart". (I saw this first at a San Francisco Street Food festival; http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/files/2009/08/sf-streetfood-festival-82209-070.jpg)

By: Joe Germuska

Joe Germuska — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:21:27 +0000

GapersBlock, a Chicago-centric web publication, sells merch with I (*) Chicago where the * is actually the six-pointed star which appears four times on the city’s official flag.

See http://www.gapersblock.com/store/

By: Bob McHyman

Bob McHyman — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:35:59 +0000

So what is “my karma ran over my dogma”?

By: ellen

ellen — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:44:31 +0000

I saw a fellow today on the U.C. Berkeley campus wearing a T-shirt that said ” I [matlab logo] matlab ” — I’m not even sure how you’d pronounce that!

Couldn’t find an example of the shirt on the internet, but the matlab logo looks like http://megashareslink.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/matlab_logo.gif — it’s the “first eigenfunction of the L-shaped membrane,” whatever that means.

By: Henri Sivonen

Henri Sivonen — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:44:37 +0000

“WE � ADOBE”, seen in https://twitter.com/#!/zcorpan/status/14121177827