#SurprisingDefinitions

Of Bookish ThingsJPK_elmediat@c.im
2025-02-11

@ComicContext
BAROOM: When a barroom explodes.
KABOOM: When a caw goes boom.

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Of Bookish ThingsJPK_elmediat@c.im
2025-01-10
Of Bookish ThingsJPK_elmediat@c.im
2025-01-10
Of Bookish ThingsJPK_elmediat@c.im
2025-01-10

#Haiku - you sneezed - so sad - clouds gathering in eyes

#WrongDefinitions
#HashtagGames #SurprisingDefinitions

Of Bookish ThingsJPK_elmediat@c.im
2024-10-11
A modified photo portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, aged negative in dull yellow green and reddish brown.
Of Bookish ThingsJPK_elmediat@c.im
2023-08-22

Examples of classic abridged novels.

The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridges of Madison County
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge

#Novels #Books #Literature #Bridges #Fiction #SurprisingDefinitions

archive.org/details/mysteryofs

Of Bookish ThingsJPK_elmediat@c.im
2023-08-21

Listless vessels - Pickle jars without labels.

#SurprisingDefinitions #ListlessVessels #Photography #DigitalArt #PickleJar

The composition is a faux antique photograph with albumen print edge. The subject is a medium close-up of an empty jar without a lid. The tones are beige and reddish browns. There is a surreal atmosphere, the jar has a dark ghostly glow.
Of Bookish ThingsJPK_elmediat@c.im
2023-08-07

Ascertain: to entertain (hold the attention) an ass.

Example: Keep telling him he won the election when all evidence points to a loss.

"Methought I was —
there is no man can tell what methought I was and
methought I had — but man is but a patched fool if he
will offer to say what methought I had."

#SurprisingDefinitions #BottomTheWeaver #Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #AMidsummerNightsDream #WilliamShakespeare

youtu.be/Kizd2sg5CUE?t=92

gutenberg.org/ebooks/1113

Of Bookish ThingsJPK_elmediat@c.im
2023-08-03
Of Bookish ThingsJPK_elmediat@c.im
2023-08-01

Ein Gin - 1. Fuel used by The Little Engine That Could (and the train engineer) 2. German Gin inspired by the book.

#TheLittleEngineThatCould #Book #ChildrensLiterature #Motivation #LifeGoals
#SurprisingDefinitions

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Litt

Mr. Pataphor, Dadaist DadJPK_elmediat@mastodon.art
2023-07-23

Sang-froid: having played the character of Elsa in #Frozen, either in a movie or on stage. #IdinaMenzel ( #Movie ) and #CaissieLevy ( #Broadway ) have sang-froid.

#SurprisingDefinitions #DisneyMovie #BroadwayStage

Mr. Pataphor, Dadaist DadJPK_elmediat@mastodon.art
2023-07-14

@atomicpoet @CliffWade
Constipation - postponed internally. When an executive's order causes a holdup.
#SurprisingDefinitions

Mr. Pataphor, Dadaist DadJPK_elmediat@mastodon.art
2023-07-05

Drywall: A flatly ironic wall. Sometimes confused with the term, wooden wall.

Wooden Wall: A socially awkward wall, that expresses a room stiffly.

#SurprisingDefinitions #DryWall #WoodenWall #Walls

Mr. Pataphor, Dadaist DadJPK_elmediat@mastodon.art
2023-07-05

Cartography: The mapping of the location of abandoned grocery carts. #SurprisingDefinitions #Cartography #GroceryCarts #Carts #GroceryBuggies #AbandonedGroceryCarts

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