Comments for The Snowclones Database http://snowclones.org Snowclones are the new eggcorns. Tue, 15 May 2012 22:58:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The queue by Mark A. Mandel http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-13185 Tue, 15 May 2012 22:58:45 +0000 http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-13185 Hopefully. See http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-1934.
And, for that matter, was it in the comic first?

]]> Comment on the first rule of X is, you don’t talk about X by arnold zwicky http://snowclones.org/2011/01/04/the-first-rule-of-x-is-you-dont-talk-about-x/#comment-13181 Tue, 15 May 2012 12:29:16 +0000 http://snowclones.org/?p=164#comment-13181 On Language Log:

AZ, 4/18/06: All that and talk about Fight Club:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003037.html
The first rule of X is that you do not/don’t talk about X. [First Rule]

]]> Comment on The queue by Maurice http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-13157 Sat, 12 May 2012 14:30:36 +0000 http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-13157 I always thought that “Great X’s ghost” came from the old B&W Superman tv series (the newspaper editor). Are you sure it’s a Robinism? Will you update these snowclones when new data come to light?

]]> Comment on About the snowclones database by Links 5/12/12 « naked capitalism http://snowclones.org/about/#comment-13152 Sat, 12 May 2012 10:57:41 +0000 #comment-13152 [...] of “What’s the matter with ___ ” snowclone is Thomas Frank’s best seller, revered by career “progressives” as part of the [...]

]]> Comment on Save an X, ride a Y by Jack Seibert http://snowclones.org/2007/07/13/save-an-x-ride-a-y/#comment-13069 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:45:45 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2007/07/13/save-an-x-ride-a-y/#comment-13069 “Save a whistle, blow a lifeguard”

]]> Comment on The queue by snowclones http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-13030 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:39:54 +0000 http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-13030 I just checked the language settings and WordPress tells me it’s “en – English” all over. Whiskey tango foxtrot indeed. I suppose it’s a WordPress bug.

]]> Comment on The queue by Mark A. Mandel http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-13029 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:28:16 +0000 http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-13029 Why did this come to my email as “Nouveau commentaire sur The Snowclones Database. johnwcowan commented  on The queue . En réponse à snowclones:”? If it’s just because you have your email configured for French, no problem. If not… whiskey tango foxtrot query bang

]]> Comment on The queue by snowclones http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-13027 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:24:03 +0000 http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-13027 I know that one–it’s in the queue already. :)

]]> Comment on The queue by johnwcowan http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-13025 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:04:58 +0000 http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-13025 “Someone says ‘I have n problems. I know! I’ll use X.’ Now they have n+1 problems.” Widely known to the computer programming community with X = “regular expressions” and n = 1; attributed to Netscape engineer Jamie Zawinski, though there are antecedents. I dub it “Zawinski’s Snowclone”.

]]> Comment on The queue by tris http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-12917 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:14:24 +0000 http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-12917 Also “Learning from X” (Learning from Las vegas, ..)

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