Comments on: Post-traumatic Snowclone Disorder: A Formula for the Favre Retirements, Foreign Policies, and Sea Monkeys We Can’t Get Over

By: Cuckoo for Snowclone Puffs: An Essential Part of an Insane Vocabulary : OUPblog

Cuckoo for Snowclone Puffs: An Essential Part of an Insane Vocabulary : OUPblog — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:07:40 +0000

[...] of those repeatable, adaptable, fill-in-the-blank idioms such as “Not your father’s X,” “Post-traumatic X disorder,” “I for one welcome our new X overlords,” and “X is the new Y”. The Cocoa Puffs [...]

By: Michelle Glauser

Michelle Glauser — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:05:35 +0000

Fabulous post. It’s funny that the experience of life used to be considered just that, and now it is trauma.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:16:24 +0000

This is one I haven’t heard of yet, but it looks like a strong one! Thanks for catching it.

By: Mark Peters

Mark Peters — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:56:17 +0000

I barely noticed Sea Monkey Affective Disorder… That is indeed a very clever play on words.

On another note, as I cautioned on my blog: “There’s no cure for post-traumatic swirly disorder, my friend. Just eat right, get some exercise, and—I can’t stress this enough—keep your head elevated well above toilet level at all times.”

By: Gemma

Gemma — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:22:57 +0000

These are great! I will particularly be on the look out for symptoms of post-traumatic swirly disorder in myself and others.

I also liked the example which gave us a double helping of snowclone by including “SMAD (Sea Monkey Affective Disorder)”. I took this to be a play on Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) although a quick googling shows that there are plenty of other medical “affective disorders” I’d never heard of.