Monday, October 22, 2007
Words and Stuff
When my son was in high school, in Palo Alto, amongst the various nascent luminaries that he gathered about him was a fellow named Jed Hartman. Turns out that among his many other activities, Jed is the author of Words and Stuff - a wonderful set of columns about playing with language.
One such exemplary SSS - Standing Out in the Field features bizarre sports cheers. Like this one from Williams:
Progress the ball, progress the ball,
Perambulate over the turf!
...and this pith, purportedly from Princeton:
Integration, derivation,
L'Hospital's rule, fight!
e to the x,
e to the x,
e to the x, dy, dx,
Cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
Three point one four one five nine,
Label the axes y and x,
Hell with football, we want sex!
Hie thee hastily to the Index of all posts, therefore, where a vast and voluptuous vimful of verbal vicissitudes awaits; amongst which, such treasures as Jed's essential post on the true and exact nature of Mondegreens
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from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith
One such exemplary SSS - Standing Out in the Field features bizarre sports cheers. Like this one from Williams:
Progress the ball, progress the ball,
Perambulate over the turf!
...and this pith, purportedly from Princeton:
Integration, derivation,
L'Hospital's rule, fight!
e to the x,
e to the x,
e to the x, dy, dx,
Cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
Three point one four one five nine,
Label the axes y and x,
Hell with football, we want sex!
Hie thee hastily to the Index of all posts, therefore, where a vast and voluptuous vimful of verbal vicissitudes awaits; amongst which, such treasures as Jed's essential post on the true and exact nature of Mondegreens
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from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith
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