The "gopher" game

[Quid est Veritas?]

Scheherazade set Alladin in China

Orientalism

 

[LaSorcia]

The Gallant Fraternity

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Anthropomorphism

 

[lucypevensie]

 

[lucypevensie]

Scambaiting

 

[LaSorcia]

Journey to the West

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Commerce

 

[LaSorcia]

dolce vita

 

[lucypevensie]

Tacocat

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.

 

[Chesterton]

Keeping up with the Joneses

 

[lucypevensie]

Tom Jones (Singer) – Pop singer Tom Jones was born Thomas Jones Woodward and so although he's not officially a Jones, he's included here because he's known by his last name of Jones. His mother's maiden name was Jones (Freda Jones)



(Were you able to keep up with all that?)




John Doe

 

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Fairy tales

 

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Venison

 

[lucypevensie]

I bought a new gadget: you put venison in the top, turn the handle, and it comes out as pheasant
It's a real game changer...

How do deer get revenge?
By giving each other a taste of their own venison


I bought hair extensions and paid the barber with venison.
I'd say that's a real bang for my buck


(Ok, that's enough)


Treadmill

 

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There is a linguistic phenomenon called Pejoration - also known as the Euphemism Treadmill. People don't want to say certain things from sensitivity, and substitute euphemisms that themselves then become pejoratives resulting in a new round of euphemisms. Good examples are blackamoor to negro to coloured to black to African-American in the US; or crippled to disabled to handicapped to the weird modern handi-capable. Even the word Death started as a euphemism for steorfan; which today survives in the form of starve or starve to death only in English; with death originally meaning something like giving up the ghost.

Very silly indeed.

 

[zippy2006]

Scotland

 

[lucypevensie]

Essential oils

 

[Chesterton]

Hippies

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Farming