OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Butterfly Verbing

The sign at the butchery advertised “Butterflyed Chicken”.

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Categories: Observation
Tags: etymology, grammar, linguistics, Observation, signs

More Door Rules

When I become President of Australia, I am going to pass a law about bathroom doors.

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Chaos Theory References over Internet History: Exploring your world with graphs

Categories: Doubleplus Geek
Tags: chaos theory, graph, internet, memes, Observation, statistics

Clarke References over Internet History: Exploring your world with graphs

D&D References over Internet History: Exploring your world with graphs

Common Phrase Experiment

Did you ever notice that some people (all people?) have certain phrases that they use a disproportionately high percentage of the time?

You may find in infuriating or endearing – probably depending on what you think of the person anyway.

I was wondering what my commonly-repeated phrases might be.

Then I realised I had a large corpus of my writing on this blog, and I may be able to do an experiment to find out.

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An Almost Modern Linguistic Phenomenon

I wanted to point out a new linguistic phenomenon out to the world.

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A Fishy Theory about Cable TV

Do cable TV programmers behave like fish?

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