Scratching my pop culture itchwordishnessTumblr (3.0; @stevewhitaker)http://wordishness.com/Awesome Civil War-inspired names for merkin styles<ul> <li>The Abe Lincoln<br/> </li> <li>Battle of the Wilderness</li> <li>The General Burnside</li> <li>The Dixie</li> <li>Ironclad</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/42240392http://wordishness.com/post/42240392Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:52:11 -0400Things I Don't Like to Pull<ul> <li>allnighters</li> <li>legs</li> <li>pork</li> <li>taffy</li> <li>conestoga wagons</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/40039409http://wordishness.com/post/40039409Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:32:17 -0400Internet terms I've come to hate<ul> <li>Microblogging</li> <li>Webinar</li> <li>Crowdsourcing</li> <li>Beta</li> <li>Folksonomy</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/37015370http://wordishness.com/post/37015370Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:52:30 -0400Failed doctoral dissertation proposals<ul> <li>What’s in your mouth now? A qualitative exploration.</li> <li>Where’s Waldo?</li> <li>Will this pass my committee? A study of whether this dissertation can possibly get anywhere beyond this drunken moment in which I conceived it.</li> <li>Making colorful tables in Microsoft Word: how three undergraduate students organize information</li> <li>Fish sticks and cats: a photographic essay</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/35699099http://wordishness.com/post/35699099Thu, 22 May 2008 13:23:19 -0400Stores that I suspect would fail<ul> <li>Consumption Junction</li> <li>Pickles ‘n’ Blankets!</li> <li>Rabies ‘r’ Us</li> <li>Der Nerdhaus</li> <li>Sweatyman’s Undies Shoppe</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/33792909http://wordishness.com/post/33792909Mon, 05 May 2008 11:30:21 -0400Things to do if you don't want to Blame it on the Bossa Nova<ul> <li>Fault the Fandango</li> <li>Scapegoat the Salsa</li> <li>Condemn the Conga</li> <li>Inculpate the Ikariotikos</li> <li>Pin it on the Polka</li> <li>Hold Accountable the Hokey-Pokey</li> <li>Assign Liability to the Lambada</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/33419814http://wordishness.com/post/33419814Thu, 01 May 2008 08:55:37 -0400More household events that also make cool band names<ul> <li>Unexpected Flood</li> <li>Buttscoot Dog Streaks</li> <li>Attic Infestation</li> <li>Punctured Linoleum</li> <li>Simulbulb Blowout</li> <li>Toilet Carkey Flush</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/33220047http://wordishness.com/post/33220047Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:45:25 -0400Lesser-known internet acronyms<p><b>CTLMEYTARR</b></p> <blockquote>Clicking The Link May Expose You To A RickRoll</blockquote> <blockquote> <i>Here are some </i><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0" title="Nekkid, I tells ya!"><i>naked pictures of </i><i>me</i></a> (CTLMEYTARR)</i> </blockquote> <p><b>KIWFONIFO</b></p> <blockquote>Stands for: Kill It With Fire Or Nuke It From Orbit</blockquote> <blockquote>Example: <i>Good God, this is the project from hell.  Seriously, we gotta KIWFONIFO.</i> </blockquote> <p><b>WPTPIMDB</b></p> <blockquote>Who Put This Pickle In My Dog’s Behind?</blockquote> <blockquote><i>Dude, WPTPIMDB?</i></blockquote> <p><b>IIWYITIPCSAA</b></p> <blockquote>If I Were You, I Think I’d Perhaps Consider Soliciting Additional Advice.</blockquote> <blockquote><i>Yeah, those could be weevils.  But IIWYITIPCSAA<i>.</i></i></blockquote> <p><b>MBHBICJBTUIC</b></p> <blockquote>My Butt Hurts, But It Could Just Be This Uncomfortable Ikea Chair.</blockquote> <blockquote><i>Man,  MBHBICJBTUIC.</i></blockquote>http://wordishness.com/post/32869382http://wordishness.com/post/32869382Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:49:25 -0400New reality show ideas• Violent Convict Podiatry<br/> • iPhone Keyboard Accuracy Showdown!<br/> • Ringo Starr’s “xTreme Fishing”<br/> • Guttin’ Deer with the Stars<br/> • Sculpt!http://wordishness.com/post/32702461http://wordishness.com/post/32702461Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:38:15 -0400Highly specialized careers<ul> <li>Omelettier</li> <li>Moustache wrangler</li> <li>Hooksneller</li> <li>Itinerant optical mouse cleaner</li> <li>Gnome polisher</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/31348846http://wordishness.com/post/31348846Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:43:28 -0400Celebrity-owned restaurants that probably wouldn't do so well<li> Fryin’ Seacrest</li> <li> Brad’s Pitt Barbeque </li> <li> TGI Affleck </li> <li> Ron Howard Johnson’s </li> <li> Drew Carey’s All-Beanie Weenie Buffet</li>http://wordishness.com/post/30568516http://wordishness.com/post/30568516Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:00:00 -0400The all-food version of "phrases that sound like euphemisms, but aren't."<li> asking your officemate for a Tagalong </li> <li> smoking a loin with two friends </li> <li> heating up the puffy biscuits </li> <li> draining the falafel </li> <li> glazing the bone-in ham with jerk sauce </li>http://wordishness.com/post/30567043http://wordishness.com/post/30567043Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:41:06 -0400Things whose use would be made difficult if they had a "vibrate" mode<ul> <li>contact lenses</li> <li>scalpel</li> <li>lipstick / mascara / eyeliner</li> <li>soda cans</li> <li>toilet paper</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/30368161http://wordishness.com/post/30368161Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:03:16 -0400Household events that also make cool band names<ul> <li>Thumb Cutlery Incident</li> <li>Rotten Milk Swigs</li> <li>Plasmascreen Shoe Fling</li> <li>Crisis of Plungerlessness</li> <li>Soliciting Councilmen</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/29585948http://wordishness.com/post/29585948Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:18:37 -0400Indecipherable Emoticons to Use in Your Next Email or IM<p>l(+</p> <p>#-</p> <p>\ii</p> <p>@#</p> <p>!!%%$ </p>http://wordishness.com/post/29403274http://wordishness.com/post/29403274Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:41:48 -0400Unspoken Interview Faux-Pas<ul> <li>furtive armpit sniff</li> <li>really really obvious armpit sniff</li> <li>either kind of armpit sniff, and it’s not your armpit</li> <li>use of “so did your mom” or “that’s what she said” at any time</li> <li>pantslessness</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/28872493http://wordishness.com/post/28872493Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:37:25 -0400A Few Other Words I Probably Just Made Up<ul> <li>sictaric</li> <li>pinasticism</li> <li>balminterism</li> <li>pallon</li> <li>praternistic</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/28696825http://wordishness.com/post/28696825Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:44:29 -0400Words I may or may not have made up.<ul> <li>Strategicality</li> <li>Dalliant</li> <li>Vibrantic</li> <li>Sophometric</li> <li>Cantister</li> </ul> <br/>http://wordishness.com/post/28229237http://wordishness.com/post/28229237Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:47:28 -0500More words that, when used to describe something, automatically convey that it isn't.<ul> <li>discrete</li> <li>slimming</li> <li>slenderizing</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/27796007http://wordishness.com/post/27796007Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:18:09 -0500Porn movie makers: here are a few titles you can have, gratis.<ul> <li>The Bone Erector</li> <li>The BigCrank Redemption</li> <li>Pulp Friction</li> <li>American History XXX</li> <li>The Pleasure of the Sierra Madre</li> <li>Die Really Hard</li> <li>Witness for the Prostitution</li> <li>Crankenstein</li> </ul>http://wordishness.com/post/27714669http://wordishness.com/post/27714669Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:01:37 -0500