That's bizarre -- I just went looking for that TNG episode of Reading Rainbow last week! There should be a term for that, when you look up something strange on the Internet and then someone links to the same weird thing. It's related to what I call the "Murray Head Conjunction," which is when something makes you think of the musical Chess and then you hear "One Night in Bangkok" on the radio within 24 hours. It's happened to me more often than I can account for, and yet the term hasn't caught on...I can't imagine why not.
"Stand back! I am tall and take large steps!" is my favorite Michael Dorn quote ever, which is saying something, considering all the gems the writers gave Worf.
Now I'm trying to remember this book I saw of "words that should exist for stuff, but don't." They had definitions with no names like, "that feeling you get as you're closing your car door, which will lock, and you see your keys in the ignition, but you can't stop yourself and have to just sit and watch as you lock your keys in the vehicle."
Not Sniglets, right? Those did have actual terms to go with the definitions, but I do distinctly remember the one about the "my keys are in there" feeling. In fact, I used to have most of the Sniglets collections; I wonder where they are.
Re: a word for when you kill itword_geekAugust 28 2009, 17:32:17 UTC
Good lord, I had no idea it was still on the air! I figured LeVar was spending all his time directing or something. Wow! He deserves some sort of award for sticking with that show for 26 years.
"Stand back! I am tall and take large steps!" is my favorite Michael Dorn quote ever, which is saying something, considering all the gems the writers gave Worf.
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Now I'm trying to remember this book I saw of "words that should exist for stuff, but don't." They had definitions with no names like, "that feeling you get as you're closing your car door, which will lock, and you see your keys in the ignition, but you can't stop yourself and have to just sit and watch as you lock your keys in the vehicle."
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"Synchronerdity" is quite a good one, though.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112312561
how many more beloved children's shows will you doom?
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