Saturday, August 07, 2004
what up folks. back from elsewhere and after a general hiatus i'm ready to get the dave back up and running again.
to inaugurate the re-inceptionation of posting, i'd like to experiment with a couple of new features.
the first comes from lewin and lewin's 'the thesaurus of slang'. in this feature, i randomly flip to a page and pick a term. i then give slang synonyms for said term. so let's see...today's term is 'hard-pressed' (adj.): back to the wall, in the soup, at the end of one's rope, hard-up, up against it, scraping the bottom of the barrel, fighting to keep one's head up, tryin' to stay alive, runnin' out of time, no more cards to play. i think i like 'in the soup' the best of all of these. i would appreciate it if someone could construct a sentence using one of the slang terms in this entry.
the second feature goes like this: i flip to a random page of hirsch/kett/trefil's 'dictionary of cultural literacy' and i enlighten you about something you should know about. today's is from the category 'literature in english'. it is a person. her name is dorothy parker. this is what HKT has to say about her: 'an american author of the twentieth century, known for her often sarcastic wit. parker wrote poems, short stories, film scripts, and reviews of plays and books. her poetry contains some often-quoted lines, such as "men seldom make passes/ at girls who wear glasses."'
and today's quote is from frederic bastiat ('the law'): 'the state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.'
anyway, it's good to be back. i hope you are all at peace and clean behind the ears.
to inaugurate the re-inceptionation of posting, i'd like to experiment with a couple of new features.
the first comes from lewin and lewin's 'the thesaurus of slang'. in this feature, i randomly flip to a page and pick a term. i then give slang synonyms for said term. so let's see...today's term is 'hard-pressed' (adj.): back to the wall, in the soup, at the end of one's rope, hard-up, up against it, scraping the bottom of the barrel, fighting to keep one's head up, tryin' to stay alive, runnin' out of time, no more cards to play. i think i like 'in the soup' the best of all of these. i would appreciate it if someone could construct a sentence using one of the slang terms in this entry.
the second feature goes like this: i flip to a random page of hirsch/kett/trefil's 'dictionary of cultural literacy' and i enlighten you about something you should know about. today's is from the category 'literature in english'. it is a person. her name is dorothy parker. this is what HKT has to say about her: 'an american author of the twentieth century, known for her often sarcastic wit. parker wrote poems, short stories, film scripts, and reviews of plays and books. her poetry contains some often-quoted lines, such as "men seldom make passes/ at girls who wear glasses."'
and today's quote is from frederic bastiat ('the law'): 'the state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.'
anyway, it's good to be back. i hope you are all at peace and clean behind the ears.
