Fill in the Blanks:

________ ________ ...
... what a wonderful phrase!

Boundary Conditions:

• It's got to scan. Two three-syllable words, by preference.
  
• Exampla gratis:
  1. Hakuna Matata, of course.
     
  2. Vagina dentata ...
     
  3. Cthulhu ftaghn ...
     
  4. Fajita tostada ...
     
  5. Zatanna Zatara ...

Additional lyrics optional.

Your turn.

Last night's poll about "The Green Hills of Earth" inspired a wave of "Other" responses, all listing a different song in the Common Meter.

Some of them work for me; some of them don't. (The Yellow Rose of Texas? Seriously??)

But one thing's for sure: after a while of trying to sing these lyrics to all these different tunes, the tunes all start to ( Read more... )

leonard_arlotte says, "Now the true test would be to enter some text from a particular author, and see if it comes back with that author's name"
athelind grauphs, "LOL!"
athelind grauphs, "I think it's just a very noisy algorithm with huge error bars. it's not ENTIRELY fatuous, since it tells me that I write like H.P. Lovecraft much of the time, in circumstances where, yes, I'm ( Read more... )

wordslinger might find this amusing, as it's tangentially related to her much more rigorous project of stylistic analysis ( Read more... )

Oops!

I was going to post the last answer to The Better Than It Sounds Meme a week ago, and I forgot.

For those of you still keeping track, the only description left unguessed was #2:

Two small children and an adorable puppy help a career police officer come to terms with the death of his wife.

I gave the following hints:

• It's a movie.
  
• This ( Read more... )

Okay, paka was wrong: posting my own version of the Better Than It Sounds Meme only made me feel stupider, when I realized how vague and general some of my descriptions were.

#8 is the worst. The problem, obviously, is that the description I gave could describe dozens of other movies; I think I described a full-on trope rather than a single movie ( Read more... )

This one's going around:

Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works/comics/etc and put their summaries from the TV Tropes entry, Better Than it Sounds, and have your friends guess what they are.

The original meme was to use entries directly from the page, but most everyone I read seems to be writing their own summaries. I agree with paka: this ( Read more... )

Scramble Pattern Violet Iodine

India Foxtrot Yankee Oscar Uniform ( Read more... )

Fasten your seatbelts, kids; this post starts talking about current Pop Culture, then veers into politics, philosophy, personal development, and metaprogramming ( Read more... )