h a l f b a k e r y
The halfway house for at-risk ideas
idea:
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, best, random
meta:
news, help, about, links, report a problem
account:
Browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
or Create a new account.
|
|
|
Please log in.
If you're not logged in,
you can see what this page
looks like, but you will
not be able to add anything.
MINT
Maybe It's Not Terrific | |
Just as one offers a breath mint to someone with less than terrific breath without actually saying "You have bad breath". You can offer a verbal MINT {Maybe It's Not Terrific} to someone without saying "You have a terrible deal /idea /shampoo".
Annotation:
|
| |
I mean do you hafta do that? I don't like MINTs, they're like WIBNIs. |
|
| |
You know that sarcasm has made leaps and bounds as a concept when all you have to do to insult somebody's well-thought out idea is to yell "Baked!!!" (or "WIBNI" or "MINT" or some other catchy acronym). Much easier than a reasoned response, and takes so much less time and effort. . . . |
|
| |
Saved from a certain death in 'space'
|
|
| |
I met a traveller from an antique LAN,
Who said: `Two vast and pointless exclamation marks of stone
Stand in a desert of ideas. Near them, on the page,
Half sunk, a shattered ego lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and lack of language's command,
Tell that its sculptor has not the wind's direction read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The words that mock them and the sharks that feed.
And in the mind's eye these words appear --
"My name is [newbiebaker], king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and bleach'd fishbones stretch far away.'
UnaBubba, Jan 28 2002
|
|
| |
Must have been a token-ring, the LAN before time... |
|
| |
Arcnet maybe? (OK, now I'm starting to show my age) |
|
| |
StarChaser - don't you mean "The LAN that Time Forgot"?
UnaBubba - once again you've excelled yourself. I'm waiting to see whether the someone will give you the opportunity for a variation on the Rubyat... |
|
| |
That's going to have to be a pretty serious intro. |
|
| |
Do you want Whinfield's 500 quatrains? Or will you settle for Fitzgerald's rather more Christianised, abridged 101 quatrains? I have some Arabic, but I'm unlikely to be silly enough to attempt my own translation. |
|
| |
Oh the abridged will do...
|
|
| |
I think using MINT to describe a bad idea--well, MINT, given its other meanings. A bit misleading to the venture capitalists. |
|
| |
Oh the abridged will do... |
|
| |