by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE GNOME ENCLATUREVerberabilissimus RANGE: Infesting the ivied towers of High Mandarin academese, and cluttering the gutters of low slum argot (littered as they are with dropped g’s and h’s). From the obsolete cliches of the left, through the content-free...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE HOUNDS OF NEWSCanes inebrioses RANGE: Like the fabulous Fairy Dog packs of yore, the Hounds of News roam wheresoever they list, red-eyed and terrible; from newspaper pay windows to celebrity discos, precinct press rooms, post-game locker rooms, and wire service...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
TINKERBELLESNumerus perversus RANGE: Shimmering across the skies. Singing down the wires. Bouncing off satellites. Beneath the seas, where the weed-draped cables drift. Binding the global village in a seamless silver web. Flashing through microcircuits to light up the...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
JACK O’LECTERNOrator ineptus RANGE: Classes, lectures, seminars, discussion groups, conventions, pulpits, meetings, rallies, briefings, press conferences, speeches, sales presentations, readings, awards ceremonies, banquets, show-and-tell . . . anywhere, anytime...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
WERNER VON BROWNIEIncendere et defugere RANGE: From the profoundest inner reaches of the atom to the outermost limits of the universe; from the first instance called the Singularity, and for the hypothetically foreseeable future, we have with us the very experimental...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
DIXIE PIXIEFlatuus ante bellum RANGE: North of the Mason-Dixon line, the Dixie Pixie can invariably be found anywhere the South is being celebrated, or derided; wherever mint juleps are consumed in excess, or utterly scorned; any place com pone and grits are eaten, or...
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