Idiom of the day
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
• That sounds like what my mom just said
• They’re like little scientists
• Oralist v Manual approach
• It’s easy to do it without asking for something….
• If a piece of anatomy is not functioning as it should….
• Oh God, we’re out to get those deaf people.
• I’m just afraid that they’re gonna make my kids deaf
• If you have a parent who speaks Chinese and a parent who speaks Spanish…….
• Deaf people hate your mom.
• Hearing the world through a garbage disposal
• Only Julie hated squash.
• The dog growled at the door.
• On the day Armando went to the police station to ask for permission to leave Cuba, he wore the gayest outfit he could find.
• Sign language babbling sounds like the cutest thing in the world
• Manhattan goes here….or I could put it here.
• Space is trippy
• If it’s a larger, bulky thing that never moves, it looks like this…
• Is this the stupid, time-wasting, keep-the-gay-man-from-signing convention?
• Whatever happens in Finland…..
• We need spaceships to take people to these two Finlands
• Gather the deaf, bring out your deaf
• Do you slur your hands if you’re drunk???
• He hosted a deaf talk show in the 80s.
• Deaf people stabbed Alexander Graham Bell.
• You look like death on 2 legs” is something polite to say
• Deaf people are such gossips
We're bad people. It's okay.
Monday, September 28, 2009
PARADOX MONDAY PART I
It's a paradox Mondayish
Join in the celebration by submitting your paradoxes.
We will post your paradoxes tomorrow, on Paradox Monday (deuxième partie)
As you may have recalled from our last Monday's reminder:
Tomorrow, (Tuesday 9/29/09) is actually a Monday.
What a paradox!
Stay tuned for paradoxes to be posted over the course of today and tomorrow's today.
Lots of Love
-Freudian Slip Films
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Hamlet Houseparty Wednesday Morning TURTLE
1) We're in Detroit with Hamlet's body.
2) Elvis is not Hamlet. Hamlet is not Elvis
3) WELCOME TO HAMLET HOUSE ( in 4 part dissonance)
4) Japanese Kamikazi Handstands
5) You You You
6)Hemmingway had bull's balls, Hamlet has bull's balls, Hamlet is Hemmingway
7) If you'd like to use the bathroom, wait for everyone to leave and shut both doors
8) Would you like a blue muffin?
9) Why did you have to go and die? We could've like hooked up and stuff
10) CALL ME MR. BABY BLUE
11) We could all drown if there was enough water
12) Ophelia is green now.
13) She likes pigs and I like her.
And Finaly.....
14) GUYS, things are getting royally F***ed up!
Hope you can catch it next time it comes around. You might wanna bring a fireproof jacket or something, just in case.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Non-paradox monday
Next Monday, however, is paradox Monday, because
Tuesday is actually Monday, and Monday is Tuesday except for the fact that Tuesday isn't. Or at least that's what CUNY told us.
Also because it happens to be the last Monday of the month...
just so you know.
:)
"Now, I got a time machine at home... it only goes forward at regular speed... It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote 'Time Machine' in Sharpie."
Demetri Martin
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
And Wednesday and wednesday and wednesday...
1) Small Children in bags
2) Shirkas
3) Fireworks
4) Milk
5) Eggs
6) Jell-o
7) Body parts (dismembered or otherwise)
8) Scones
9) Bong in a Blintz
10) Gene Kelly
11) Walt Disney's Head
12) Your pet Shark
13) Little red sneakers
14) Anything even slightly phallic
15) Anything even slightly euonic
16)Beer
Monday, September 14, 2009
At the Common Event
Tarred and feathered, he studied the Norwegians and walruses and moved to Iceland.
Friday, September 11, 2009
where's the cream filling?
1. I'd walk a mile for a Camel.
2.We drink all we can. The rest we sell.
3. Put a tiger in your tank.
4. Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
5. Melts in your mouth, not in your hands.
6. It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
7. It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.
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1. Camel cigarettes (1921), reported in Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Wealth: Five Plants That Made Men Rich (2006), p. 226.
-I think this would make an amazing illustration/cartoon spoof!
2.Utica Club, 1965, Doyle Dane Bernbach; reported in Art Direction (1967), p. 133.
-Great in AND out of context
3. Esso/Exxon, reported in Brian Ash, Tiger in Your Tank: The Anatomy of an Advertising Campaign (1969), p. 60.
-THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!
4. Peter Paul Almond Joy & Peter Paul Mounds, 1953, Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, reported in Linda K. Fuller, Frank Hoffmann, Beulah B Ramirez, Chocolate Fads, Folklore & Fantasies: 1,000+ Chunks of Chocolate Information (1994), p. 60.
-Too true, too true.
5. M&Ms (1954), reported in Joël Glenn Brenner, The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars, (1999), p. 172.
-She also may have said this.
6. Timex Corporation (1956), reported in William Harley Davidson, José R. De la Torre, Managing the Global Corporation: Case Studies in Strategy and Manage
-No comment
7. Perdue (1972), Scali, McCabe & Sloves; reported in Robert F. Hartley, Marketing Successes, Historical to Present Day: What We Can Learn (1985), p. 171.
-Laugh out loud
If you have any others, post them as comments and we'll lad them to the list!
Have a spectacular weekend.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
I will post in a punctual manner, I will post in a punctual manner, I will post in a punctual manor
“Songs That I Do Not Remember Putting On My Itunes and Will Invariably Keep Skipping Over on Shuffle”
+The Worst Joke Ever-REM
+Arrival of the Queen of Sheba-Handel
+Pachelbel’s Cannon
+Black Tables- Other Lives
+Good Time Charlie-Kander & Ebb
+Montage-Satyajit Ray
+Nightgown of the Sullen Moon-TMBG
+Belgium-Bowling for Soup
+Caring is Creepy-The Shins
+Hashish- Hair
+Big, Blonde and Beautiful-Hairspray
+Elevator Music-Beck
+An Orgy of Critics- Say Anything
+Goodnight Goodnight- Maroon 5
+Ces-Soirees-La – Jersey Boys
+Fantine’s Death- Les Miserables
+Let Yourself Go-Kristen Chenoweth
+Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)- Mika
+Oscillate Wildly- The Smiths
+Back in the USSr- The Beatles
+Sway- Michael Buble (really, I don't remember putting any Michael Buble songs on) +Goodnight Saigon- Billy Joel
+We Tell the Story-Once on This Island
+Buzz Fledderjohn- Tom Waits
+Dinner is Served- POC Black Pearl
+La Vie Boheme B- Rent
+The Military- Seussical
+Carte Blanche- Shock Treatment
+La Vida Loca- Antonio Banderas*
+Younger Than Springtime- South Pacific
+The Mirror-Blue Night-Spring Awakening
+ Slow Cheetah- Red Hot Chili Peppers
+Parlor Songs- Sweeney Todd
+Everything That I Am- Phil Collins
+Oxford Comma- Vampire Weekend
*No, really, it was Antonio Banderas, it's from the Shrek 2 Soundtrack, apparently.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Once again, it is Wednesday. Put on your thinking chappeaus
Things I Want to Do Now That I Have Moved Out of My House and Justifications for Not Already Doing Them
1) Poker Night- Fear of any reference to Lady Gaga
2)Stockpile of Warheads (the candy) and Root Beer- Does not trust roommate all that much
3) Build a Snowfort- It’s September
4) Go to a taping of Daily Show- Daily Show on vacation
5) Own a pet platypus or narwhal- strict no pets rule in dorms
6) Rocky Horror Night- Corset at the Cleaners
7) Build a pillow fort- Only own one pillow
8) Reproduce my Broadway collage on all walls of my dorm- Economic downturn= no shows
9)Lose 20 lbs – Guido day at the QC gym
10)Focus more on my studies/ get a 4.0- NCIS is on
11) Write a fantastic novel- My ADD was not cured by moving off Long Island
12) Get rid of Long Island accent- Never had Long Island accent
13) Answer my phone “City Morgue, you kill ‘em, we chill ‘em”-An actual morgue still has my cell phone number
14)Meditate more often- Not allowed to have candles
15) Fall madly in love- I’m straight and I go to Queens College
16) Meet a buttload of new people- Webkinz
17) Find internal peace- It’s taco night at the papuseria.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Chuesday
OOOH!
It's just like back back in New Jersey.
:P