August 2008
20 posts
“The essential getting-wasted-on-wine song is “Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee”, originally recorded by Stick McGhee in 1947 (and rerecorded for Atlantic in ‘49), which inspired a slew of interpretations, from Jerry Lee Lewis to Johnny Burnette. “Spo-dee-o-dee” is a replacement for “motherfucker,” McGhee’s original end phrase.”
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Illusions: The Eyes Have It →
sciam.com
Creepy Scientific American Slideshow
RIP Jack A. Weil, and Thanks →
latimes.com
Weil designed and helped popularize cowboy shirts with snap fasteners and lived to be 107.
retronomatopeya - a set on Flickr →
flickr.com
Cartoon noises from old comics. Splonk! Splosh! Buum!
Victorian Back Slang →
victorianweb.org
What is it? Well, everybody — in England at least — knows at least one word of it: yob. Boy backwards. Take an ordinary English word and say it backwards is the simple basic principle…
