"Leonard Nimoy: Good evening, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true I mean false."
The above line comes from an episode of The Simpsons called ‘The Springfield Files,’ which aired way back in 1997 before many of you were born, and by born, I mean before you got your MySpace accounts.
Okay, someone please tell me what this ubiquitous rhetorical device is called, because it’s frickin hilarious, and by hilarious I mean enough already.
/cue the ducks, and by ducks I mean blog retrospective
From “My Proud and Diverse Heritage,” January 11, 2006
John Williams. I love John Willams! He’s the guy who did all the music to Star Wars, right? It is an honor to be compared to him, and by honor I mean OMFG, WTF?
From “Father Timing,” June 15, 2005
But as I’m getting to the good part, and when I mean good, I mean the part where I assume the happy place curl, the phone rings.
From “On the Event of Your Seventh Birthday,” June 08, 2005
I merely shut the door on the Witnesses, not because I don’t respect others’ beliefs, but because it was just so damned tiring trying to love you and your mom and to a much lesser extent a dog and cat while I concentrated on finishing college so that we could have a better life, and by better life I mean cable.
From “Anatomy of a Speech,” October 24, 2005
And the last thing I want to do is start insulting you, especially since many of you come from disadvantaged backgrounds, and by disadvantaged what I mean is that many of you grew up without songs from the 80s.
From “Signs of Life,” January 16, 2006
For Alex's birthday I rented out a suite on the Ocean for us and 4 of our friends, so you may have noticed I haven't posted much in awhile. I've been busy, and by busy, I mean I've been drunk and without a reliable wi-fi connection, and by without a reliable wi-fi connection, i mean, thankthesweetlordsheonlyhas1birthdayperyear.
From “TequilaCon06: Le Sigh,” April 25, 2006
That was because most of the planning, per usual, for TequilaCon05 was handled by Jen. And by MOST, I mean ALL.
Okay, so any suggestions? I couldn’t find any appropriate neologisms on wikipedia, so we may have to INVENT a word, which as you know, I never do, and by never…ad nauseum.
The closest I could find was distinctio. So would adistinctio work? Cause the whole idea is to be contrary. Pseudotrope, perhaps? Faux dire?
Prize goes to the winning suggestion, and by prize I mean VLAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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