Comments on: Set Phasers on Tweet: A Star Trek Snowclone Blizzard on Twitter http://blog.oup.com/2009/06/set-phasers-on-tweet-a-star-trek-snowclone-blizzard-on-twitter/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mark Peters http://blog.oup.com/2009/06/set-phasers-on-tweet-a-star-trek-snowclone-blizzard-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-152497 Mark Peters Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:42:00 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=4805#comment-152497 Interesting... So the snowclone works both ways. Thanks for sharing that--I bet there are a bunch of examples out there. Interesting… So the snowclone works both ways. Thanks for sharing that–I bet there are a bunch of examples out there.

]]> By: Gregory Korte http://blog.oup.com/2009/06/set-phasers-on-tweet-a-star-trek-snowclone-blizzard-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-152495 Gregory Korte Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:19:21 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=4805#comment-152495 When I was in college in the early '90s, we used an almost identical Star Trek-influenced construction, but the substituted word wasn't "stun" -- it was "phaser." So if the music was particularly loud, we'd say, "The speakers are set to stun!" Or if the ice dispenser in the dining hall delivered an especially large amount of ice, we'd say, "The bucket o' ice is set to kill!" Of course, this was all pre-Internet. So there's no giant online corpus of colloqual speech we could use to figure out whether this was just my own circle of friends, or in broader usage. When I was in college in the early ’90s, we used an almost identical Star Trek-influenced construction, but the substituted word wasn’t “stun” — it was “phaser.” So if the music was particularly loud, we’d say, “The speakers are set to stun!” Or if the ice dispenser in the dining hall delivered an especially large amount of ice, we’d say, “The bucket o’ ice is set to kill!”

Of course, this was all pre-Internet. So there’s no giant online corpus of colloqual speech we could use to figure out whether this was just my own circle of friends, or in broader usage.

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