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Annals of hypallage
From a Talk of the Town piece — “End is Near Dept.: Fallout”, by Nick Paumgarten — in the May 10 New Yorker: Last month in Washington, President Obama convened world leaders to discuss the dangers of...
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Porn hypallage and sex-part conversion
From the 1988 gay porn flick Cruisin’: Men on the Make, in scene 2, dominant man says to his submissive fellator: You suck good cock. meaning ‘you suck cock good/well, you’re a good cocksucker’ — that...
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Shirtless hypallage
From recent postings on shirtlessness: I didn’t find really stunning shirtless photos of them [Riley and Xander] separately, but I did come across a manip … of the two of them in carnal congress (link)...
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Two cartoons
Monday morning comics: A Bizarro with word play, A Pearls Before Swine with a slogan reworked: (#1) Another kind of hypallage (see here), with a VP adverbial (here, a little) converted to a modifier of...
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Revisiting 18: hypallage in the garden
Photo from Andy Rogers on Facebook today, from a garden supply store: (#1) Andy quipped: “So, what is “AMATEUR MULCH”, Mulch you don’t have to pay for?” — playing on the N/Adj amateur as contrasted...
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O happy day! Annals of hypallage 2018
Three bulletins on hypallage on the net: a Page on this blog; a review of some net and media discussion from 2007-09; and recent Facebook discussion of a class of cases that I’ll refer to as...
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Grass-fed beef
Annals of hypallage, food-source division. In a 1/30/17 New Yorker cartoon by P.C. Vey: Contemplating the nightmare that bedevils animal rights activists: force-feeding creatures to prepare them for...
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Give Head for Christmas!
(Significant sexual content, not for children or the sexually modest.) Making the rounds on Facebook, this photo from a store sportswear department, with a sign that appears to be exhorting Christmas...
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The cable gremlins
(A version of things I posted on Facebook earlier today about my life, with glancing allusions to various phenomena of social life. Posted here to have a more permanent and accessible record, on...
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From a Talk of the Town piece — “End is Near Dept.: Fallout”, by Nick Paumgarten — in the May 10 New Yorker: Last month in Washington, President Obama convened world leaders to discuss the dangers of...
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From the 1988 gay porn flick Cruisin’: Men on the Make, in scene 2, dominant man says to his submissive fellator: You suck good cock. meaning ‘you suck cock good/well, you’re a good cocksucker’ — that...
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