The ongoing conversation
Movie clapperboard by gnokii at openclipart.org (CC0). Another Twitter pun meme went on in October, and seems to have enjoyed a recent resurgence. The idea is to take a well-known film title and add a word to it, yielding a (presumably) unwatchable movie. #AddaWordRuinaMovie has even spawned an account @ruinmoviee, which I guess is a pattern […]
These are from my contributions to a two-year-old Twitter meme #minoranagrambooks: The Lord of the Grins The Little Pincer Anne of Green Bagels The Scrotal Web Harry Potter and the Holy Lad’s Wealth The Very Hungry Cellar Tapir James Clavell’s Hung So Frank Herbert’s Nude What Color Is Up Your Trachea? Feel free to contribute […]
An orc cook goes to the orc butcher and asks for some prime elf steaks. The butcher says “It’s not ‘prime’ these days. Elfmeat went to ‘good’, ‘plusgood’, ‘doubleplusgood’.” “Oh. Okay, gimme some plusgood elf steaks and some doubleplusgood pixie wings.” “Pixie wings are now grade A, B, or C.” “Erk. Gimme grade-A pixie wings. […]
A Jawa costume at Star Wars Celebration IV, 2007. Photo by Scott Ruether / Star Wars (CC BY 2.0). Played some Jawa riddle games with the boys last month. I’ve already shared the results on Facebook, but another fried made a different “Utinni” joke this week, and that reminded me to share it here. If […]
Today’s pun-filled hashtag on Twitter is #DisneyLucasMergers. (Don’t know why? Tsk! Go read Disney to Buy Lucasfilm for $4.05 Billion; New ‘Star Wars’ Movie Set for 2015 first.) “Snow White and the Seven Droids” is the most popular one. I threw in some that I hope are less obvious: Finding Solo 20,000 Clones from the Sea Planet The Hutt […]