Mike Masnick ✅I don't know who this person is who just followed me, but they win for the best name on Mastodon (and, yes, I'm a fan of the book it's referencing).
daniel@Pwnallthethings @mmasnick Obligatory Oxford comma joke
Ajax B. Corainder
Chris Pirillo@mmasnick ...TIL .horse is a TLD.
Tim Kellogg@ChrisPirillo @mmasnick uhh yeah… horses can toot too
GirtBySea@mmasnick
Has extra resonance in Australia
Where there's old joke about wombats
Which
Eats Roots & Leaves
Roots does not have cheerleading meaning here that it does in US
Here it's far more carnal.
Has extra resonance in Australia
Where there's old joke about wombats
Which
Eats Roots & Leaves
Roots does not have cheerleading meaning here that it does in US
Here it's far more carnal.
Bill Ricker@GirtBySea @mmasnick
(the rural portion of the rest of the anglosphere used "ruts" for the carnal meaning AFAIK, but given the great vowel movements, it makes sense that "ruts" became "roots" in 'strine.)
(the rural portion of the rest of the anglosphere used "ruts" for the carnal meaning AFAIK, but given the great vowel movements, it makes sense that "ruts" became "roots" in 'strine.)
@BRicker @mmasnick
Lol
An oldie but a goodie
Afferbeck Lauder, brilliant: you kinda have to do some sort of stumble between the k & l, which makes it work.
We had until recently an cruelly named conservative politician, one Hunt, Greg.
Fancy with that surname, giving your kid a first name ending in a velar plosive.
His parliamentary nickname was
"Yorick"
@GirtBySea @mmasnick and Jeremy Hunt is back in UK Cabinet, where he was known as Cockney Rhyming slang in previous term.
@BRicker
Float Yorick for him too.
Works a treat.
Start sentences
"Alas, poor Jeremy..." the rest will follow.
Float Yorick for him too.
Works a treat.
Start sentences
"Alas, poor Jeremy..." the rest will follow.
Duende Mode@mmasnick big fan also... and when I think of all the two-tweet bots I had to block on the BirdApp, I guess the analog here would be "two-toot tootsies, g'bye"
@mmasnick best name ever
Michal Dzierza@mmasnick Sublime. Also my favourite book.
JoffaboyThere was a motorcycle gang near Geelong, Australia called The Wombats. Their motto was 'Eats, Roots, Shoots and Leaves"
OracleClyde 🔮@mmasnick @Pwnallthethings I concur. That book is wildly entertaining and educational.
Zee
Lquera@mmasnick I loved that book! #ForeverTeamOxfordComma
(For those who haven’t had the pleasure: Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots & Leaves. 2003)
blank@mmasnick I wonder what a toot tastes like.
Oh, maybe there was supposed to be a comma in there.
Eats, Toots and Leaves