Better Beautiful than Perfect

Mom: there might be bacon! Dad: I’ve got cargo pants.

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:37:11 -0400

Mom: there might be bacon!

Dad: I’ve got cargo pants.

lzbth: oh my god

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:52:13 -0400

lzbth:

oh my god

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blueisforscarvesandboxes: david-bui: do you ever just feel so awkward when you buy something and...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:23:38 -0400

blueisforscarvesandboxes:

david-bui:

do you ever just feel so awkward when you buy something and pay in cash and the cashier gives you the change back but you take a few seconds to put the money in your wallet and you can feel the world judging you from afar

I’m glad it isn’t just me

wholock-in-hobbiton: superwholocked221b: superwholocked221b: superwholocked221b: I genuinely feel...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:19:14 -0400

wholock-in-hobbiton:

superwholocked221b:

superwholocked221b:

superwholocked221b:

I genuinely feel bad for anyone on tumblr who’s not in the sherlock fandom because when season 3 airs I’m 5236947623% positive Tumblr will be down for at least a month due to overloaded servers

We’re coming

Guys I thought this died out why are people reblogging it again

~~kinda like how John thought Sherlock died~~

oh

notneverbrilliant: sherlockspeare: I don’t know what I’m doing...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:19:01 -0400

notneverbrilliant:

sherlockspeare:

I don’t know what I’m doing any more.

Log: It is now month 16 of the Hiatus. The fandom has long ceased to make any sense, but I fear things are getting worse. If this trend continues, it is my opinion that, by the time of the airing of Season 3, the entire fanbase may be plunged into jibbering insanity.

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spectrenoir: This song always takes me back to tango class...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:50:56 -0400

spectrenoir:

This song always takes me back to tango class years ago, it was what we’d always start class with.

18 obsolete words, which should never have gone out of style

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:35:49 -0400

18 obsolete words, which should never have gone out of style:

vigwig:

nilamarthiel:

thetruthyness:

knottahooker:

Snoutfair: A person with a handsome countenance — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk

Pussyvan: A flurry, temper — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk

Wonder-Wench: A sweetheart — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk

Lunting: Walking while smoking a pipe — John Mactaggart’s “Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia,” 1824

California Widow: A married woman whose husband is away from her for any extended period -John Farmer’s “Americanisms Old and New”, 1889

Groak: To silently watch someone while they are eating, hoping to be invited to join them

Jirble: To pour out (a liquid) with an unsteady hand: as, he jirbles out a dram —www.Wordnik.com

Curglaff: The shock felt in bathing when one first plunges into the cold water — John Jamieson’s Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808

Spermologer: A picker-up of trivia, of current news, a gossip monger, what we would today call a columnist — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk

Tyromancy: Divining by the coagulation of cheese — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk

Beef-Witted: Having an inactive brain, thought to be from eating too much beef. — John Phin’s “Shakespeare Cyclopaedia and Glossary”, 1902

Queerplungers: Cheats who throw themselves into the water in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each, and the supposed drowned person, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, is also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket. — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk

Englishable: That may be rendered into English. — John Ogilvie’s “Comprehensive English Dictionary”, 1865

Resistentialism: The seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects —www.ObsoleteWord.Blogspot.com

Bookwright: A writer of books; an author; a term of slight contempt — Daniel Lyons’s “Dictionary of the English Language”, 1897

Soda-squirt: One who works at a soda fountain in New Mexico — Elsie Warnock’s “Dialect Speech in California and New Mexico”, 1919

With squirrel: Pregnant — Vance Randolph’s “Down in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech”, 1953

Zafty: A person very easily imposed upon — Maj. B. Lowsley’s “A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases”, 1888

RESISTENTIALISM

THE SEEMINGLY SPITEFUL BEHAVIOR OF INANIMATE OBJECTS

okay we need to bring this one back right now

I hope to never be with squirrel good gracious

RESISTENTIALISM My Russian History prof pretended he coined that word, BUSTED

a hilarious joke

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:34:38 -0400

queerfacers:

tanku:

three cats are competing in a race. there’s an american cat named “one two three”, a german cat named “ein zwei drei”, and a french cat named “un deux trois”. the cats all swim across a lake. the american cat finishes first, the german cat finishes second, but the french cat is nowhere to be found.

why?

because the un deux trois quatre cinq

sabrinagrimm: showing a friend a song u like

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:31:37 -0400

sabrinagrimm:

showing a friend a song u like

notallwhowanderarelost2: Olan Rogers is seriously one of the...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:31:17 -0400

notallwhowanderarelost2:

Olan Rogers is seriously one of the funniest human beings on the planet.

rattyburville: merrymrdarcy: so i called the nearby starbucks to see if they were open because my...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:00:41 -0400

rattyburville:

merrymrdarcy:

so i called the nearby starbucks to see if they were open because my dad wasn’t sure and wanted me to ask so i asked them in gollum’s voice “HELLO IS PRECIOUS OPEN TODAY?”

and the guy on the other line replied with “YES PRECIOUS IS OPEN TODAY UNTIL 3 MY PRECIOUS YESSSSSSSS”

I FUCKING FLIPPED OUT AND I WAS LAUGHING AND SOBBING

AND THE GUY ON THE OTHER LINE ASKED “IS PRECIOUS OKAY”

I HOPE YOU MARRIED HIM

theinformationdump: Body Language Cheat Sheet for Writers As...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:46:12 -0400

theinformationdump:

Body Language Cheat Sheet for Writers

As described by Selnick’s article:

Author and doctor of clinical psychology Carolyn Kaufman has released a one-page body language cheat sheet of psychological “tells” (PDF link) fiction writers can use to dress their characters.

yliluonnollista-paskaa: narfnin: awesomephilia: Whiteboards are remarkable. I HAD TO REBLOG THIS...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:42:48 -0400

yliluonnollista-paskaa:

narfnin:

awesomephilia:

Whiteboards are remarkable.

I HAD TO REBLOG THIS A SECOND TIME BECAUSE I JUST REALIZED ITS A PUN AND NOW I FEEL STUPID

so at first you reblogged it just because you think whiteboards are remarkable?

berks-dragon-trainer: probablyharrison: onlyhestandsthere: T...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:39:20 -0400

berks-dragon-trainer:

probablyharrison:

onlyhestandsthere:

T for tender

he opens the door on the fucking hinges side

Oh, you thought this was gonna be a black and white depressing post, didn’t you?

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pertlattimers: my blog is less me making a conscious effort to entertain people and more people...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:18:22 -0400

pertlattimers:

my blog is less me making a conscious effort to entertain people and more people walking in on me talking to myself

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