:unintended novelties

This just happened, so I don’t mean to spam and take up two posts in a row… But it’s relevant and extremely geeky English-major humor.

So I was helping my suite mate with a paper, and she asked, “How often do I need to cite?” I replied, “Generally, every time you switch page numbers or authors is considered standard.” We continued to talk and I said at one point:

“Generally, over-citing is a good plan of action.”

She got a really confused look on her face when I started to crack up. I did not mean to give her the bad advice of making “oversights” as a policy. I realize that “oversighting” isn’t really a verb, but I think its one of those words that still makes sense. She is even now giving me strange looks as I laugh at the cleverness of my subconscious… But in reality, I’m just a geeky English major.

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I basically watch Jeopardy every night, and I’ve noticed that when they name their categories they usually utilize word play.  Tonight the last two categories read as this: “Rated ‘R’” “For Sax and Violins.”  I thought this was so clever, a very funny play on the phrase “Rated R for Sex and Violence.”

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From Google: “There’s snow on the ground, but we hope there snow spam in your inbox.”

Reparsing, from “there’s no spam”. Possible because of the continuous speech signal.

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