Showing posts with label word-play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label word-play. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

New communication technique?

Type only things that require a single hand, despite using QWERTY (punctuation doesn't count for this exercise, because silly unreadable run-ons aren't nearly as fun...):

Examples from an xkcd "blag" post:
  • “We fear a few dwarf watercraft stewardesses were regarded as desegregated after a great Texas tweezer war.”
  • “I’ll kill him in Honolulu, you unhook my pink kimono.”
Here are my "left-handed" remarks (which are perfect for right-handed mouse-o-philes):
  • "Are extra trees ever great weeds?"
  • "Car was safe: waxed, gassed, etc."
  • "A feat: create vast reverberated waves!"
  • "Ever see a bad feast? Excess sweet treats?"
  • "Draft? Wear a sweater."
  • "Axe a rat; feed face; get a barf bag, fast!"

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Rejected Ubuntu Release Names

As I pointed out previously, Ubuntu Releases have all been alliterative animal phrases. While the initial two releases were "Warty Warthog," and "Hoary Hedgehog," the adjectives in these phrases have become somewhat more flattering since, featuring: Breezy, Dapper, Edgy, Feisty, and (currently) Gutsy. With this trend in mind, it is fun to imagine some of the submissions that may have been received and rejected by the Ubuntu team. I submit the following alphabetically-aligned alliterative adjective/animal amalgamations that are unlikely to ever be associated with any project or product:

  • Acrid Amoeba
  • Bald Beaver
  • Cantankerous Cub
  • Devilish Dromedary
  • Evil Elk
  • Fearsome Frog
  • Geriatric Grunion
  • Heinous Hippo
  • Illiterate Ibis
  • Jacobite Joey
  • Killer Kite
  • Lame Llama
  • Mongoloid Mongoose
  • Noisome Nit
  • Onerous Orangutan
  • Precarious Porpoise
  • Queer Quokka
  • Rabid Rat
  • Sterile Serpent
  • Twisted Trout
  • Urbane Ungulate
  • Voluptuous Vixen
  • Warlike Walrus
  • Xenophobic "X-animal"
  • Yucky Yak
  • Zero-sum Zebrafish