Comments on: The queue http://snowclones.org Snowclones are the new eggcorns. Tue, 15 May 2012 22:58:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ 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?

]]> 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?

]]> 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.

]]> 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

]]> 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. :)

]]> 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”.

]]> 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, ..)

]]> By: tris http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-12870 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:52:42 +0000 http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-12870 X is X
like in “Work is Work” or “Life is Life” or “Dylan is Dylan” or “women are women” … the ultimately irritating tautology

Don’t X me
like in “Don’t truth me!” (see K.Vonnegut in the sirens of Titan)

]]> By: Xantix http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-12777 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:49:57 +0000 http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-12777 In a world where X.

Coming from background movie narrators, “In a world where anything could happen”, “In a world where aliens had taken over”, etc.

The phrase was made famous by Don LaFontaine.

]]> By: CrownStarr http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-12687 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:24:17 +0000 http://snowclones.org/the-queue/#comment-12687 “Die, X Scum!” is one I’m having trouble finding any info on. It came up in a discussion about this (in)famous tattoo:

http://tranarchism.com/2011/11/21/guest-post-die-cis-scum/

It was my contention that “die X scum” implies aggression towards any X, rather than just the X that happen to be scum – to me, the latter seems to be a technically “accurate” interpretation, but not one that matches the connotation the term normally has. “Die, Imperial scum!” doesn’t sound like it makes exceptions for the stormtroopers that are just trying to put their kids through college. I couldn’t find any existing discussions online to back this stance up, though.

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