{"id":362,"date":"2002-06-22T13:38:33","date_gmt":"2002-06-22T21:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-12-02T20:10:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T04:10:42","slug":"33-13-turns-of-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"33 1\/3 turns of phrase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?selm=20020622.132555.1967681095.1770%40localhost.localdomain\">I was prompted by a post to alt.peeves<\/a> to seek confirmation of my brilliant originality by websearching for phrases that I had jotted down as clever.  In light of this research, the name of my band will be &#8220;A Wellmeaning Oaf&#8221;, and our first album will be &#8220;Return to Porlock&#8221;.  (I am particularly disappointed in &#8220;Usual Suspicions&#8221; and &#8220;Red Weather&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>In the process I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchable.net\/02\/0427.shtml\">essay by one Sarah David<\/a> about enjoying the B-52&#8217;s.  Whom, in turn, I didn&#8217;t expect to see dominating the search results so thoroughly (are there no webpages about bombers?). I can take only so much of the B-52&#8217;s at one sitting (about as much as Devo) but I love the counterpoint of &#8220;52 Girls&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another essay using that same phrase is <a href=http:\/\/www.oocities.com\/gpweekes\/fightscenes.html>this one about bad fight scenes in fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was prompted by a post to alt.peeves to seek confirmation of my brilliant originality by websearching for phrases that I had jotted down as clever. In light of this research, the name of my band will be &#8220;A Wellmeaning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-mememe","category-musicverse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}