Category Archives: Odd Thoughts

Odd Thought on Forensics

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Forensics is just archaeology without the wait.

Odd Thought on the Sincerest Form of Flattery

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i like if wrote that poem bet
some cummings next point me the would
but woulding didn’t could see where
today tomorrow can’t

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Odd Thoughts on Emphasis

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How can you tell if a hyphen is italicized?

[experiment: – ]

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Odd Thoughts on Etymology

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Why doesn’t “exciting” mean “formerly making reference to”?

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Odd Thoughts on the Undead

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Zombies … the ultimate Ponzi scheme.

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Odd Thoughts on Marsupials

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oppose v. to block or contradict (from Latin opposum, meaning “mammal that contradicts everything you believed about mammals”)

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Odd Thoughts on Literary Terms

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No, nom-de-plume is not French for “snacking on feathers.”

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Odd Thoughts on Support

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A three-legged table is vastly more stable
__than one- or than two-legged tables.

But I think you’ll be able to see that a table
__with no legs is equally stable.

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Odd Thoughts on Mel Gibson

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Mel Gibson’s latest screenplay is an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s mega-bestselling murder mystery, And Then There Were None … but using the original title.

Odd Thoughts On the Stone Age

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The Guardian Science/Anthropology: “First Britons may have used clothes, shelters and fire to ward off cold

Yeah, that would probably work better than just blowing into your hands.

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Afterthought: What’s up, Guardian?  No Oxford comma?