Set Phasers on Tweet: A Star Trek Snowclone Blizzard on Twitter
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs & Current Events & Film | June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
Mark Peters looks at all the variations of the snowclone “set phasers to x” on Twitter.
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Cuckoo for Snowclone Puffs: An Essential Part of an Insane Vocabulary
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
Mark Peters explores the phrase “I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”
Post-traumatic Snowclone Disorder:
A Formula for the Favre Retirements, Foreign Policies, and Sea Monkeys We Can’t Get Over
Filed in A-Featured | July 31, 2008 | 5 Comments
Mark Peters, the genius behind the blog Wordlustitude in addition to being a Contributing Editor for Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, and a language columnist for Babble, and the author of Yada, Yada, Doh!: 111 TV Words That Made the Leap from the Screen to Society is our guest blogger this week. Check out his [...]
Phrasal Patterns 2: Electric Boogaloo
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & From A To Zimmer & Lexicography | August 9, 2007 | 5 Comments
Ben Zimmer’s follows up on last week’s post, Pouring New Wine Into Old Phrasal Bottles.
