A Disquisition On Hyphens
The Loco-motion will always be downgraded for its superfluous hyphen (also the reason why Spider-Man will never be a top tier hero in my book)
- Peter Baran (@pb14) April 11, 2020
It was a different time
- αℓαη тяєωαятнα ✍︎ (@alantrewartha) April 11, 2020
"I was glad I had seen the cars in this natural setting, which was, after all, a kind of Plato's Republic for teen-agers."
--Tom Wolfe, "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby," Esquire, 1963
- Frank Kogan (@koganbot) April 11, 2020
The Cars That Go Varoom?
- Tom Ewing (@tomewing) April 11, 2020
We're Tigra and Bunny, and we like Varoom!
- Frank Kogan (@koganbot) April 11, 2020
Also:
At age 10 I found the title "Please Please Me" tremendously disturbing; even when I finally figured out the verb things, it still seemed like an irritating unwanted disturbance, like the Beatles themselves.
- Frank Kogan (@koganbot) April 11, 2020
And:
And then eight years later when I became a Kinks fanatic and was excavating their early recordings, my brother felt utter disdain overhearing the lyric, "The only time I feel all right is by your side."
- Frank Kogan (@koganbot) April 11, 2020
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