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Evan
03-16-2012
02:30 PM ET (US)
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/m338 Oh well, I guess not. :(
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Evan
02-20-2012
02:18 PM ET (US)
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/m337, /m338 Sounds great! But does that mean we aren't going to Occupy the next Scrabble Championship?
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Kansas Sam  02-20-2012
01:59 PM ET (US)
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/m337 Before I do any actual work on the ZP, I've started a new pome on it to see if anyone's still interested.
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Kansas Sam 02-20-2012
01:52 PM ET (US)
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/m336 I was looking through the Spoonbill archive today and got nostalgic for that sort of thing. I keep hoping that it'll come back to life some day, but that seems unlikely by now.
Anyway, it's good to see that you folks still check in here every now and then. I still have mild ambitions of fixing the problem in the ZP that prevents pomes from being ended, but I haven't been sure if anybody still wants to play. Interest in the ZP seemed to dwindle about the time that problem showed up, though maybe we were getting burnt out by then. But you might be ready to go again after all this time. Does anybody still want to play?
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Evan
02-15-2012
05:36 PM ET (US)
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None whatsoever!
Maybe we should all meet and "Occupy" something. But it needs to be something word-related, like, let's "Occupy" the next Scrabble Championship. How sorry would that sound in the news, "A crowd of 6 people from around the world occupy the hotel lobby at the 2012 National Scrabble Championship."
Or maybe, we could all suddenly flood Lucas' Unthunk Blog with comments. His last post there almost 2 years ago, he'd probably flip when he saw all the sudden traffic.
Of course the easy way would be to re-animate the Ziti Project. There are 6 "Active" poems still sitting there, untouched for the last two years.
Or does anyone know of another word-play site with the same appeal that Googlewhack and Unthunk had. That would be cool.
Okay, so I had a couple ideas afterall (far-fetched though they be). Maybe the first hurdle is getting the old gang aware of a new conversation going on here; or getting it started over on the Unthunk QT board.
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Karin1 02-14-2012
11:12 AM ET (US)
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/m334 I also think that would be rather swell! Got any ideas?
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Evan
02-08-2012
05:44 PM ET (US)
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Hi folks, I'm not sure if any of you are still checking in here (I see Karin and Will_H visited just a month ago!). I was just remembering all the whacking, thunking, spoonbilling, ziti-ing, and QuickTopicking we used to do, and was feeling nostalgic about it. I see those sites are all either broken or abandoned at this point. Such a shame, we had a good time with it all. I wonder if we shouldn't try to "round up the usual suspects" and have a reunion of sorts.
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Karin1 01-10-2012
12:37 AM ET (US)
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Yes Will - I've thought about that before. Muffin, lamb chop, sugar plum - I like to try out different ones on Rainer. They all sound cute and he doesn't seem to mind!
Thanks for posting the link to "You're the Top". I always enjoy hearing it but reading the lyrics for the first time gave me a new appreciation for Cole Porter's genius. :)
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Will_H 01-07-2012
10:31 AM ET (US)
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Thanks Karin,
Think of how we call our SO's: sweetie pie, sugar, honey, honeybun, pumpkin
And some of my favorite lyrics ever here
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Karin1 01-03-2012
01:35 PM ET (US)
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Hey all - I don't know if anyone will see this, but I read something today I thought my fellow word-lovers would enjoy. It's from a recipe newsletter I subscribe to:
"All said, perhaps no measure can capture the importance of food to the human experience quite as vividly as the number of food idioms that exist in the English language (and undoubtedly in other languages as well). Here is a fun sample: acquired taste, apple of my eye, as cool as a cucumber, as easy as apple pie, as sweet as honey, bad apple, bear fruit, big cheese, bite off more than one can chew, bite the hand that feeds you, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, bring home the bacon, can't stomach it, chew the fat, couch potato, cream of the crop, cry over spilled milk, eat dirt, eat humble pie, eat like a bird, eat like a horse, eat one's words, eat out of your hands, eat someone for breakfast, food for thought, forbidden fruit, fruit of one's labor, go bananas, goose is cooked, greatest thing since sliced bread, half-baked idea, have a bigger fish to fry, have one's cake and eat it too, having a lot on one's plate, icing on the cake, in a nutshell, like taking candy from a baby, make a meal of it, meal ticket, meat-and-potatoes guy, no free lunch, not my cup of tea, out to lunch, packed in like sardines, pie in the sky, piece of cake, putting all of one's eggs in one basket, rub salt in one's wounds, selling like hot cakes, spill the beans, spoon-fed, take it with a grain of salt, that's the way the cookie crumbles, tub of lard, walk on eggshells, work for peanuts. It is clear that humans are obsessed with food."
Gad Saad, from "The Consuming Instinct"
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Esküvői Fotós
12-20-2011
02:26 PM ET (US)
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Really cool!
Esküvő szervezés
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Karin1 07-21-2011
03:04 PM ET (US)
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/m327 Thanks for the link Sam. I enjoyed it.
It has been a long time - I hope everyone's doing well. :)
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Grayman
06-28-2011
02:56 AM ET (US)
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Nice link Sam! Passed it on to my niece and her mum.
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Kansas Sam 06-02-2011
11:42 PM ET (US)
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Hey, it's been exactly one-year since anybody posted anything to this board!
If anybody's still listening, here's something I found that all you lovers of nonsense might enjoy: http://grantgriffin.com/verse/the-monitarians-song . BTW, I think that guy was somehow involved in the old "dspGuru" site that the ZP used to be hosted on.
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FrancineF 06-02-2010
10:04 PM ET (US)
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Speaking of links and youtubes, here's one you might enjoy. 100 years of the movies condensed down into about 5 minutes. It was made by TCM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_fCRE5Xtnc
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FrancineF 06-02-2010
09:32 PM ET (US)
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/m324 I don't think you can post images on QuickTopic. However, you can load them onto Photobucket website and then post a link to that here. (I seem to remember doing that once, not sure.)
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