Thursday, September 18, 2008
Reader. Poll.
You asked for it, you got it. We now have a reader poll on the best nickname for Sarah Palin. And just as I posted it, I heard a new one: Scary Sarah.
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Deal with it.
Revel in it.
Team Verb
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What they're saying abt Mr. V
- "omg, how did I only just learn about Mr. Verb?" — Lauren, Dec. 9, '08
- "Mr. Verb and his minions, few though there seem to be, dislike reading, or dislike reading carefully." — Robert Hartwell Fiske, editor and publisher, The Vocabula Review
11 comments:
October Demise
From a friend: Alaska Disasta, Shrilla from Wasilla.
And Cindy McCain is, of course, Miss Fortune. (You may recall that in his acceptance speech, John McCain said he'd been "blessed by misfortune.")
polar bear haras (sarah spelled backwards)
Sarah Spectacle
Forgot to mention this one: Nanookie of the North.
Wishydig's "Mooselini" (comment on previous post) is brilliant.
God, these are tremendous. It makes blogging seem worthwhile, for this one magic moment.
Sarah Quaylin
This just (Sept. 20) in, from Charles M. Blow on the NY Times op-ed page: SnowJob SquareGlasses.
The hits, they keep on coming! Possibly the best yet: Bible Spice.
See http://tinyurl.com/4qx86t
From John Ridley: the Alaskan Sphinx. (Which is really, really hard to type. Try it.) http://tinyurl.com/52q6ld
Just heard this one: Bible Spice.
(and McCain is, of course, Old Spice)
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