A harbinger of the apocalypse, the final sign of the coming of the End Times, a portent of doom. Not coincidentally, a fairly well-designed Microsoft product.
See? This why I get so little achieved each day. People tell me interesting things so I go off on tangents that lead off on other tangents, which lead off on further tangents...
It seems the Devil's Dictionary 2.0 has an RSS feed so can be made into an LJ daily item, and that there is an earlier, bigger Devil's Dictionary X (http://www.sedition.com/ddx/) which also has an RSS feed. The original Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is laid out in similar fashion online (http://dd.pangyre.org/) though you can only refer to it there and they use the site to try and sell you their dead tree book, but I found Ambrose Bierce's original (electronic version) freely downloadable (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/972) from Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) (or goto their search page (http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/)).
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branchandroot
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Date: 2005-11-10 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-11 05:34 am (UTC)Me too. I'm a sucker for silly one-liners.
Or even two-liners:
Q. Why have elephants got Big Ears?
A. Because Noddy won't pay the ransom.
heheheheh
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Date: 2005-11-16 11:45 am (UTC)Here's a taste:
C# proper noun
A harbinger of the apocalypse, the final sign of the coming of the End Times, a portent of doom. Not coincidentally, a fairly well-designed Microsoft product.
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Date: 2005-11-16 10:51 pm (UTC)It seems the Devil's Dictionary 2.0 has an RSS feed so can be made into an LJ daily item, and that there is an earlier, bigger Devil's Dictionary X (http://www.sedition.com/ddx/) which also has an RSS feed. The original Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is laid out in similar fashion online (http://dd.pangyre.org/) though you can only refer to it there and they use the site to try and sell you their dead tree book, but I found Ambrose Bierce's original (electronic version) freely downloadable (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/972) from Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) (or goto their search page (http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/)).