Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A 77-page essay as to why Caravan Palace is the best band in the universe. <|°_°|> A list of the times the film Foodfight! made you want to cry into your Cheerios. Me too, buddy. Another one for good measure. Some erotic fanfiction you found on the internet that you happened to like.
Cryptomnesia occurs when a forgotten memory returns without its being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original. It is a memory bias whereby a person may falsely recall generating a thought, an idea, a tune, a name, or a joke; [1] they are not deliberately engaging in plagiarism, but are experiencing a memory as if it were a new inspiration.
At the English public school (i.e., private school) Haileybury and Imperial Service College, in the 1950s and '60s, grammar schoolboys from nearby Hertford were referred to as "oips", from "hoi polloi", to distinguish them from comprehensive and secondary modern schoolboys, the lowest of the low, who were called "oiks".
The “Chaotic Good” online community is dedicated to sharing those wholesome moments where people decided to right some injustice their own way. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote ...
Gutmensch (literally good human in German) is an ironic, sarcastic or disparaging cultural term similar to the English do-gooder.Those who use the term are implying that Gutmenschen have an overwhelming wish to be good and eagerly seek approval—further suggesting a supposed moralising and proselytising behaviour and being dogmatic, while prioritizing "right" and "correct" attitude or ...
Tweak or overhaul these ideas so they work for you. If you’re game to try these hacks and forget apps in the new year, here’s how I do it: I schedule my time intentionally
Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good").
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!