#Fun with Words

[merakisphere]

Here's a Fun Fact, did you know this!?

"Was it a car or a cat I saw"

Spelled backwards is:

"Was it a car or a cat I saw"

Can someone remind me what you call these types of play on words? Also, if you know anymore, please share! :)

I am overjoyed that you've come across my handmade work! These are fascinating pieces that continue to captivate my attention since seeing them back in the early 90s. #corememory

I construct every piece by hand as you can see in the video. Please help me decide on a name for this crackly-blue colour way, as it's current name (Crackled Cobalt) feels a bit uninspiring...

Please consider reblogging/sharing my post as this helps get the word out that these still exist! I'm certain for every 10 reblogs, it'll cross paths with someone who also shares memories of these when they were younger.

My Etsy Shop: Meraki Sphere Use code TUMBLR for a special discount just for hanging out. <3

[galaga-senpai]

(a pangram is any sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet)

[marlynnofmany]

for-prophet organization (four-prophet organization?)

Sounds like a fantasyland tax-avoidance scheme! No gods to worship, just the prophets themselves. All four of them. Who are very good at marketing. Of course it's not a cult; why do you ask?

[michaelrotonal]

ambiguous compound words!

the rules are simple. blue, pink, blue+purple, and purple+pink all have to be singular nouns.

handlead

earlyear (early is a noun. its plural, earlies, is valid in scrabble as the plural of early)

mawhole (this feels like a fun one because both pronounciations are the same)

carbroom (this one also has both pronounciations the same)

partone

applead

singerman

[coquelicoq]

[ID adapted from alt: Two panels (the first is on the left) from the Natsume's Book of Friends manga in which Natori uses the phrase "clowder of cats". The first is from chapter 101 and he's saying to Matoba, Natsume, and Nyanko-sensei, "So Ban is aware of the clowder of cats that Natsume saw." The second is from chapter 102 and he, Natsume, and sensei are looking at a dozen or so ceramic lucky cats surrounding a man passed out on the floor. Natori says, "Wow, this is a real 'clowder' of cats..." /end ID]

ugh gretchen stop trying to make clowder happen, it's not going to happen 🙄

[autumnsunshine10]

Next Stop

Okay so here's the thing--

My guard went out to lunch

Then one shuffled up offering

Profundity temporarily covering

Nitty-gritty insipidity--for shame!

Trenchcoat drenched...look away.

Parking my backside on a bench,

Sitting out another grand slam game;

Pop up scrimmage on the fly,

Suiting up umpire style...

Learned lesson, belatedly applied.

Supplanted, supply and demand

Disenchanted by an elephant

In the room I read wrong.

My head can't wrap around

Tunnel vision distance...

Put the fun in funneling,

The scam in scampering.

There's nothing to see here--

Heavily cloaked fully clothed,

Dragging busted baggage...

So it's not just a compact carry-on.

That's fine, I'll take my chances

On the next bus to stop by.

Prompts: there's a thing, park bench

[gawrkin]

Normal People: Ambidextrous

Me: Sinister Dexter

[absolutely-esme]

A ghost from Generic Fantasy Past possesses a modern human but doesn't have complete control.

Something happens which startles both of them.

The ghost attempts to say "what sorcery is this?"

The human simultaneously tries to say "what the fuck?"

What actually gets said is "What fuckery is this?"

[mariana-oconnor]

Google docs trying to change "have good taste" to "taste good".

Yep, those two things mean exactly the same thing. I foresee no problems.

[puppetmaker40]

A new life goal.

[shadesofmauve]

An email from my alma mater

Me: "What are they teaching those fish?!"

Dad: "How to solve their own problems."

[sdpubliclibrary]

The La-La-Theory #2

[dolores-hazy]

Coordination

Mutual appreciation

No depreciation in value

Nor use for self-

Deprecation

Simultaneous equations

Sixty-nine problems

One smouldering solution

Yin yang give-and-take culminating

In a satiating conclusion

Inspired by the #kamasutrachallenge prompt: sixty-nine

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[cheshirelibrary]

[coquelicoq]

The sound of the words is the first primitive pleasure in poetry. "In poetry," Wallace Stevens asserted, "you must love the words, the ideas and images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all" ("Adagia"). Stevens lists the love of the words as the first condition of a capacity to love anything in poetry at all because it is the words that make things happen. There are times when I read a poem and can feel the syllables coming alive in my mouth, the letters enunciated in the syllables, the syllables coming together as words, the words forming into a phrase, the phrase finding a rhythm in the line, in the lines, in the shape of the words crossing the lines into a sentence, into sentences. I feel the words creating a rhythm, a music, a spell, a mood, a shape, a form. I hear the words coming off the page into my own mouth—in transit, in action. I generate—I re-create—the words incantatory, the words liberated and self-reflexive. Words rising from the body, out of the body. An act of language paying attention to itself. An act of the mind.

-Edward Hirsch, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, ch 1, pp 9-10