Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/22/honorificabilitudinitatibus.html
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Is Dank Carpet a hapax?
The Old Testament is jam-packed with them, for exactly the reason you described. For the most part we just trust the Rabbis; when they tell us “tohu wa bohu” means “without form and void” we just kind of go , “okay, if you say so.” The phrase appears nowhere else; how are you going to say they’re wrong?
The phrase does also appear here:
The selahim was often known to be adorned with a decorative tnetennba.
On November 18, 2010, I discovered a googlewhackblatt: dodecular. Unfortunately, I published my finding in a book, and now there are 6 results.
Hapax, will travel!
Dank you, dank you very much, dip the staff and dry the steak!
Hmm. We must be getting different google results.
Years ago, coming home late at night, I stepped on a plastic building block in a bachelor apartment where no such thing had been seen before. I bear the scar to this day of the elusive… hapax Lego.
d’oh.
I forgot that the primary purpose of the internet was to make jokes.
And cats.
You may have been cursed. To reverse the curse, you must declare aloud: “Lego me non!”
something something round peg in a square hole?
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