Filed under  //   curse   name  

Comments [0]

Hoss-fightin' hosses and such

Role-playing game handle: Horse de combat

While the illegal sports of dogfighting and cockfighting are better known, the blood sport of horsefighting is also practiced in some parts of the Far East, despite a fair amount of outcry.
Combat by proxy is not limited to vertebrate species. There are enthusiasts of fighting crickets in China

Perhaps one could redirect this interest to virtual depictions of blood sports in the context of video games, so that actual animals would not suffer. There is already a series of Alien vs. Predator games which one could consider to be a variation on this idea, albeit one that is a little easier to market.

Filed under  //   animal   game   name   sport  

Comments [0]

Waiting to levitate

Reality program: Hellholes, where contestants on a rapidly diminishing floor compete to see who can be the last one left alive while performing mental and physical challenges



When people say that something "fell between the cracks" my mind rebels. Surely if a floor were cracked in certain places, the best place for something to fall would be in between the cracks, because that way the thing would not fall into a crack itself. One could say something "fell into a crack" or "fell into a space between the parts which are between the cracks."

Filed under  //   name   television   tv  

Comments [0]

Filed under  //   animal   dinosaur   name  

Comments [0]

Filed under  //   film   name  

Comments [0]

The deepening gloom

Fantasy location: Dimbulb Dale

And maybe the people who live there would be unusually gullible too.

Filed under  //   name   place  

Comments [0]

Filed under  //   name   pun   story  

Comments [0]

Fun with literal-minded electronica

Song title: (1) Jammed Shredder, (2) Androids Go Diving
Suggested partway through listening to the eleventh track on this album, which was a Magnatune freebie a month back.


Selection by Domased

Filed under  //   music   name  

Comments [0]

That would be affirmative

Band name: Steam Governors
Will it be the same in the future? Will the prized treasures of to-day always be the cheap trifles of the day before? Will rows of our willow-pattern dinner-plates be ranged above the chimneypieces of the great in the years 2000 and odd? Will the white cups with the gold rim and the beautiful gold flower inside (species unknown), that our Sarah Janes now break in sheer light-heartedness of spirit, be carefully mended, and stood upon a bracket, and dusted only by the lady of the house? - Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
Filed under  //   book   music   name   quote  

Comments [0]

Little barefoot folk

Collective noun: A banquet of hobbits

I think that would be especially popular among the dragon population.

Filed under  //   fantasy   fiction   name  

Comments [0]

About

“Wouldn’t that get a little monotonous – just Akron, cold beer and ‘poor, poor thing’ for two weeks?” – Mary Chase, Harvey