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Here are a couple of great cartoons about rabbits that have taken a common thought/idea/event and completely reversed it. They are almost an implied visual chiasmus which is why I am posting them on chiasmus day.
The awesome bunny shadow image is from here Check it out
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I wonder if the food tastes any better.
I wonder if the food tastes any better.
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If you are not a regular here at Daily Vowel Movements then here are a bunch of posts that you may have missed.
Pointless Post-it Notes - An apple a day ...
Balloon Missiles
Wish you were here
The Wednesday Word - turdiform
Loves, Gifts and Chiasmus
Today's Wednesday Word is rebarbative. It means serving or tending to irritate or repel.
Here is my quote for it:
"His long-winded stories and never ending comments had such a rebarbative effect that he often had no one to talk to at all".
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Thanks to Busted Tees
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At the start of October I predicted that Stan walker would be the winner of Australian idol. Check out my previous post here.
Despite the fact that I am tone deaf, even 8 weeks ago, it was so obvious to me that he was going to win as he made the rest of them look like washed up karaoke singers.
Congratulations Stan - well deserved
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I recently read Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. This book has now entered my highly recommended reading list for several reasons.
Firstly the story is wonderful – Dorian Gray, a young hedonistic society man gets a portrait done, but unknown to both the sitter and the painter, the picture supernaturally captures Dorian’s soul. While Dorian goes on to live the high life and suffer no external consequences, his portrait bears the marks and stains of such living. It is a simple coming of age/maturity story with a twist at the end.
Secondly, the writing is superb. There are several scenes that stand out for the beauty in prose, particularly when Dorian discovers the supernaturality (is that a word) of his picture, and another towards the end when Dorian looks on in horror at what his picture has become.
Thirdly, and perhaps my favourite reason is the wonderfully witty one liners peppered throughout the book. Here are my favourites:
Today's Wednesday word is palimpsest. It is a manuscript on which there more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible.
Here is a quote for it by Russell Hoban:
"Language is an archaeological vehicle ... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history."
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I don't know anything about Robert H. Schuller but i like this quote by him:
“Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.”
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I saw a great movie on DVD today - "Mao's second last dancer".
Apparently the sequel is now out at the movies and is even better, but I still enjoyed the first one.
Has anyone else seen it? what did you think?
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The Sydney monorail that travels through the CBD, along a single track approximately 5.5 metres above the ground with no traffic or obstacles or possible obstructions, has headlights. Can anyone tell me why?
Today's Wednesday word is actually a phrase, that is, an 'umfriend'. I'm not sure whether it is an official word yet, but it is used to describe your boyfriend or girlfriend just before they become your boyfriend or girlfriend (also can describe an undeclared sexual partner).
Here is a quote by Julian Burnside about it:
"Hello, I would like to introduce you to Robin, my ... um ... friend."
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Thanks to Busted Tees.
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"Television is like the American toaster,
you push the button and the same thing pops up every time."
"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing.
It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."
"Television has brought murder back into the home--where it belongs.
You may have guessed by the last quote that these are all by Alfred Hitchcock, director of such films as Psycho, Rear Window and Dial M for Murder. Hope you like them.
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(Click here for other Pointless Post-it Note posts or click here for my original Pointless Post-it Notes post and my tribute to Jessica Hagy)
Today's Wednesday word is somniferous. It means causing or inducing sleep.
Here is my quote for it:
"His monotonous voice combined with the dry technical subject matter ensured a somniferous lecture.
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I have posted this before, but thought it was worth posting again, given the Melbourne cup was on again.
If i were ever to own a race horse i would name it Akau. Why?
"We're coming into the home stretch, and the horses are battling for position, but wait - Akau is coming down the outside, in fact it looks like Akau might be in with a good chance. Akau is now in third place, no wait, second place. This is turning into a magnificant race, and i don't believe it but Akau has taken the lead, yes, yes, Akau, Akau, against all the odds, Akau has done it. For the first time in the history of the sport, and we may never see it happen again, but Akau has won the Melbourne cup."
I love novelty photographs. Of course everyone does them of the leaning tower of pisa, but some of them are really creative - like this one.
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Another great chiasmus:
"I have wasted time and now time is wasting me".
I heard it in a Paul Kelly song, but wondering if he made it up, or if it came from somewhere else. Does anyone know?
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