Wax Poetic

It’s Give or Take

25 August, 2010 (12:00) | Wax Poetic

Give someone a shove,
and they take flight.
Give one some love,
and they take your night.

Take someone’s breath away,
and they give you love.
Take the time in a day,
and they give answers from above.

Hall's Rules of Social Order

Hall’s Rules of Social order #66

23 August, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

The Driver is the authority on music. He or she may delegate to passengers at their will.

Geeked Out

Pour some shook up ramen

20 August, 2010 (12:00) | Geeked Out

A malapropism (AKA dogberryism or acyrologia) is a phrase or word that can substitute to sound like another word phrase. Just like when you have some misheard song lyrics (These are called mondegreens btw), usually these have funny stories if they come up in real life situations. Here are a few examples of ones I’ve come across:

While on a tour at a winery, the tour guide was showing the different sizes of bottles and what they are called and used for. He pointed to a very large one and I swore he said, “This one is the annihilator.” What he really said was, “This one is the nine liter.”

Mahatma Gandhi walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet
became quite thick and hard. He also was quite a spiritual person.
Even when he was not on a hunger strike, he did not eat much and
became quite thin and frail. Due to this diet, he wound up with very
bad breath. Therefore, he came to be known as a . . .

Super calloused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis.

Do you have any examples of #phrases that sound like other phrases?

Poll the People

Going to a lake of fire to fry

18 August, 2010 (12:00) | Poll the People

Is it rude to cut steak all up before you eat it?

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Hall's Rules of Social Order

Hall’s Rules of Social Order #103

16 August, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

The only time it’s acceptable to wear a band’s t-shirt to the same band’s concert is if you’re in the band.

Pittsburgh

Time after Time

12 August, 2010 (12:00) | Pittsburgh

Here’s an awesome time lapse video of the new consol energy arena from start to finish!

http://penguins.nhl.tv/team/console.jsp?catid=19&id=72562