I’ve written a few of these McSweeney-like lists, even had a few published. Dooce linked to one on her Twitter today. ( which is going to read like Portuguese to my mother) but here, I offer you two more.
What Could Have Been.
– – – –
The Life My Mother Planned for Me
A+
NYU
Ph.D.
HMO
IRA
The Life I Planned for Me
NFL
L.A.
ESPN
MVP
VIP
Double D
USA! USA! USA!
The Life I’m Living
ADD
GED
DUI
IHOP
SOB
WTF
Tenth-Graders’
Favorite Suggestive
Terms From Geometry.
sextant
strip group
side-angle-side congruence
point of osculation
circle packing
Wang tiles
spherical excess
writhe number
homomorphism
squircle
Sierpinski sponge
circumellipse
annulus
self-dual configuration
screw rotation
head
ball
some of lists I’ve posted here:
The other ones, I have to find. I sure have enough of them… post hard drive crap out anyway.