Bog boggle, hag haggle, lit little, whit whittle. Apple? Bubble? Rubble? Tattle?

I think you take a short noun, double the final consonant and add "-le" to make a diminutive or maybe repetitive verb. Not sure how the others work.

When thunder is far away, you just hear rumble rumble rumble. A little closer, it becomes rattle rumble. It's usually raining by the time you hear crack-boom. And then keerack-boom. But if it's really close? KRIKKA-KRAKKA-THOOM.

I hate carrying soup in the dark; it's tough to see if it's close to spilling.

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My night vision is pretty good, but if you're shouting at me from a car, I still rely on my hearing to realize whether you're somebody I should recognize.

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Lotsa teens out tonight.

This is pretty neat: two weeks of supernovas compressed into 100 seconds of musical notes.

And yeah, I know that short posts like this would be better off as tweets. But whatever.

Hair's gotten long again. If you want to see me before I cut it, speak up QUICK.

My littlest cousin (first cousin, once removed) has the bluest eyes I have ever seen on a person.

Holy crap, I haven't looked at the Ninjai website in 6-8 years! And they're working on a feature-length movie!

Okay, while I could be telling you way more relevant things, I'm going to talk about this instead since it's what's actually been most on my mind this week (this month, even, maybe): the second knuckle on the first finger of my left hand ( Read more... )

So as I'm reading this post, I'm thinking the opposite on a lot of these and I wanted to see how much the opposite. Am posting it here because it's just downright weird to start talking about yourself on somebody else's somewhat official autobiographical snapshot. (EDIT: mine here is just a lark. :P /EDITThe points he addressed are surprisingly ( Read more... )

Don't interrupt parrot when parrot is ringing bells!

BELL RINGING IS SRS BSNS GUYS