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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
219. Spice and Smoke....
Kretek is primarily due to the crackling sound made by the spices when they burn. Essentially Onomatopoeia...
217. Harold and Maude
Harolding = Hanging around in cemeteries/graveyards and other such morbid places....
Thursday, February 12, 2009
214. Kiss and Start Telling?
Kissing the Blarney Stone.
According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the gift of gab....
According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the gift of gab....
213. A whole lotta whiskey....
Whisky Galore! was a 1949 comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Compton MacKenzie. Both the movie and the novel are based on the real-life 1941 shipwreck of the S.S. Politician and the unauthorized taking of its cargo of whisky in the Hebridean island of Eriskay
In France, the movie was retitled Whisky a Go Go, after which a Paris discothèque and later a West Hollywood nightclub were named, ultimately giving the English language the term go-go dancer.
Phew.
In France, the movie was retitled Whisky a Go Go, after which a Paris discothèque and later a West Hollywood nightclub were named, ultimately giving the English language the term go-go dancer.
Phew.
207. Two to tango....
Frédéric Chopin
Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant, best know by the pseuodonym George Sand.
Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant, best know by the pseuodonym George Sand.
205. A Whale Tail?
This is the image you see when Twitter stops working.
The image is that of a Beluga whale - which in distress produces extremely high-pitched tweets - being rescued by a group of birds. The relevance to the context is apparent.
The image is that of a Beluga whale - which in distress produces extremely high-pitched tweets - being rescued by a group of birds. The relevance to the context is apparent.
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