Comments on: The Right Word for the Right Whatchamacallit http://www.intergalactic-hussy.net/the-right-word-for-the-right-whatchamacallit/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:10:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: gypped http://www.intergalactic-hussy.net/the-right-word-for-the-right-whatchamacallit/#comment-360 gypped Fri, 14 Apr 2006 06:18:56 +0000 http://www.intergalactic-hussy.net/the-right-word-for-the-right-whatchamacallit#comment-360 hey lady. I miss you, I really! miss you. let's see each other soon. xxx hey lady. I miss you, I really! miss you. let’s see each other soon. xxx

]]> By: Aimee http://www.intergalactic-hussy.net/the-right-word-for-the-right-whatchamacallit/#comment-359 Aimee Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:31:53 +0000 http://www.intergalactic-hussy.net/the-right-word-for-the-right-whatchamacallit#comment-359 Oh lunarbrogue, I "feel" your "pain". I too am "certifiable". I realised the true extent of my air quotage the other day with some horror that I was doing it while interviewing a famous author. A lot. And really, REALLY coming off as an arsehole. Oh awkward social interaction, thy name is Aimee! Oh lunarbrogue, I “feel” your “pain”. I too am “certifiable”.

I realised the true extent of my air quotage the other day with some horror that I was doing it while interviewing a famous author. A lot. And really, REALLY coming off as an arsehole. Oh awkward social interaction, thy name is Aimee!

]]> By: lunarbrogue http://www.intergalactic-hussy.net/the-right-word-for-the-right-whatchamacallit/#comment-358 lunarbrogue Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:58:22 +0000 http://www.intergalactic-hussy.net/the-right-word-for-the-right-whatchamacallit#comment-358 I'm with you on the air quotes equals arsehole observation but, ashamed as I am to admit this, I am, "in fact", a pathological (potentially "certifiable") air quoter. It all started during my rebirth as a philosophy student, when it was explained to me during one fateful discussion that language is just a big dirty alphabet soup of metaphor and allusion. I gasped, and with index and middle fingers tentatively rising to form punctuation antennae, asked "you don't mean "metaphor" do you?" My doctor thinks that while I should try and cut down on my air quoting (currently between 500 and 750 quotes per hour, more when in conversation with Mormons), she believes that, in "controlled" circumstances, my obsessive behaviour can be quite "charming", even if it does leave some people with the impression that I'm an arsehole. I am not convinced. I’m with you on the air quotes equals arsehole observation but, ashamed as I am to admit this, I am, “in fact”, a pathological (potentially “certifiable”) air quoter. It all started during my rebirth as a philosophy student, when it was explained to me during one fateful discussion that language is just a big dirty alphabet soup of metaphor and allusion. I gasped, and with index and middle fingers tentatively rising to form punctuation antennae, asked “you don’t mean “metaphor” do you?”

My doctor thinks that while I should try and cut down on my air quoting (currently between 500 and 750 quotes per hour, more when in conversation with Mormons), she believes that, in “controlled” circumstances, my obsessive behaviour can be quite “charming”, even if it does leave some people with the impression that I’m an arsehole. I am not convinced.

]]> By: Chris http://www.intergalactic-hussy.net/the-right-word-for-the-right-whatchamacallit/#comment-357 Chris Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:21:16 +0000 http://www.intergalactic-hussy.net/the-right-word-for-the-right-whatchamacallit#comment-357 You "crack" me "up" You “crack” me “up”

]]> By: Stu http://www.intergalactic-hussy.net/the-right-word-for-the-right-whatchamacallit/#comment-356 Stu Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:06:02 +0000 http://www.intergalactic-hussy.net/the-right-word-for-the-right-whatchamacallit#comment-356 Hey! I have been known to use "air quotes". But anyway, great line in the first paragraph. Funniest thing I have read all day. Hey! I have been known to use “air quotes”.

But anyway, great line in the first paragraph. Funniest thing I have read all day.

]]>