December 2009
A "blue moon" is when there are two full moons in...
It’s going to be a magical night.
ohyeahfacts:
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SYCOPHANT
sycophant
PRONUNCIATION:
(SIK-uh-fuhnt, SY-kuh-, -fant)
MEANING:
noun: A servile self-seeking person who flatters in an attempt to win favor.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin sycophanta (informer, slanderer), from Greek sykophantes (informer, slanderer), from sykon (fig) + phainein (to show). How did a sycophant turned from one who shows a fig, to an informer, to a flatterer? There are two...
In the 16th century, gin was referred to as...
ohyeahfacts:
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Hmmm, Gin.
“I was wrong to have a dream; wrong as usual. I mean if you’re nothing special,...”
– Marge Simpson (via hunsonisgroovy) (via quote-book)
thanks mom!
“I am fine, my feelings are mad.”
– Homer Simpson (via anditslove) (via itsmyspace) (via brokenmachine)
The Answer Bitch podcast returned yesterday and...
Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Indie Bands →
longlivethequeen:
indierawk:
Pretty accurate, you’ll vom vom vom.
Via Marky.
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
– Socrates (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
brokenmachine:
Radiohead || There There
in...
#559
achoiceinthematter:
Someone who will only eat the french fries off my plate that I don’t like.
SURREPTITIOUS
surreptitious \suhr-uhp-TISH-uhs; suh-rep-, adjective:
1. Done, made, or gotten by stealth. 2. Acting with or marked by stealth.
The monitoring is not surreptitious; on the contrary, the defendant and his or her attorney are required to be given notice of the government’s listening activities. — John Ashcroft, “National Security; Prevention of Acts of Violence and...
“A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes...”
– Ingrid Bergmen (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
I love that trick
Interesting Tricks of the Body
longlivethequeen:
shaunnashindig:
sugarspun:
feargall:somethingintellectual:
[via]
1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear. When you were 9, playing your armpit was a cool trick. Now, as an adult, you can still appreciate a good body-based feat, but you’re more discriminating. Take that tickle in your throat; it’s not worth gagging over. Here’s a better way to scratch your itch:...
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
– Dale Carnegie (via johannal) (via quote-book)
Apple seeds contain trace amounts of cyanide.
ohyeahfacts:
An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but I guess you’ll see the coroner a little sooner than expected.
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“Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
– John Lennon (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Hysteria was originally thought to only occur in...
ohyeahfacts:
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a wandering uterus??? where would it go?
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.”
– Chloë Sevigny (via quote-book)
“Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta figure out who’s worth...”
– Bob Marley (via tranashley) (via quote-book)
The reason the plural of moose is moose (and not...
ohyeahfacts:
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Criterion Adds Thirty-Five Films to Stream via... →
makingofmovies:
danhacker:
Here are the new Criterion titles recently added as of Monday (12/21/2009) :
High and Low
Jules and Jim
Sanjuro
Seven Samurai
Summertime
The Vanishing
Walkabout
Yojimbo
My Life as a Dog
For All Mankind
Cleo from 5 to 7
Sisters
Closely Watched Trains
M. Hulot’s Holiday
Rashomon
I Vitelloni
Wild Strawberries
L’Avventura
Hidden Fortress
General...