Also TBA (To Be Avoided)
"Summertime, and the x is y...," where x is a gerund and y is "easy" or something rhyming with "easy." This construction has been seen most recently at the Telegraph.
posted by Ed Park @ 12:57 PM
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I don't have Times Select so I can't tell if this is as good as I remember, but it sure was funny back in aught-one
yes... still funny
"2001: A Gore Odyssey", Economist, May 22, 1999
"2001: A Trash Odyssey", American City and Country, May 1999
"2001. A Direct Marketing Odyssey", Direct Marketing, July 1, 1999
"2001: A Freight Odyssey", Fleet Owner, November 1999
"2001: An Insurance Odyssey", Insurance Networking, April 1999
"2001: A Video-on-Demand Odyssey", Multichannel News, Jan. 1
"Not Quite 2001: A Crawl-Space Odyssey", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan. 5, 1999
I wrote a short parody-news piece for the Yale Record that I thought was really funny -- don't know if we ever ran it; I may have filed it in the "funny only to Mollie" drawer -- something like "Gershwin, Heyward estates call for moratorium on use of 1st line of 'Summertime' in newspaper ledes." Though I must have had a pithier headline than that. The gist was that they hoped to see community calendars and stories about the opening of municipal pools begin with other, lesser-known lyrics from "Porgy & Bess," like "Bess, you is my woman now" or "A red-headed woman make a choo-choo jump its track."
Idalia, Mollie, these are hilarious — call it 2007: A Joke Odyssey!
(That's really weird — I also have a drawer called "Funny only to Mollie.")
Keeping the Gershwin theme, how about Memes Walked in?
Memes are Here to Stay
They All Memed
It Ain't Necessarily Meme
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