One derogatory term for glam rock is "hair band."  Yet all bands are "hair bands."  Even buzz-cut Sinead O'Connor was a hair band, for "Thesis and antithesis are inseparable, like an object and its shadow" (Pavel Aleksandrovich Florenskiĭ, The Pillar and the Ground of the Truth, 1997).

"There is need that somebody should write a book for grown folks entitled 'How They Are Making a Baby of Him.'"
—Sunday Afternoon, Vol. 3, 1879, p. 283.

Which is funnier: Tears or laughter?

Clue:  This is according to the book Love and Other Games of Chance

Answer:  Tears  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Lee Siegel, Love and Other Games of Chance (2003), p. 358

 

I was thrown into some sort of strange loop while watching the Pet Shop Boys "Pandemonium" concert.  Neil Tennant was lip-synching a duet with Dusty Springfield.  The dearly departed Springfield appeared in the form of a massive projection.  Not only was she not present (except in spirit), but she was lip-synching, too, as her filmed footage wasn't of a live performance.  There was Neil Tennant, "pausing" his lip-synched stanza to make sonic space for the projection of a deceased woman to lip-synch her own pre-recorded chorus.  I was left . . . well . . . speechless.

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The semicolon's inky side is facing the reader. The semicolon is not visible, except during thick clouds of ignorance which eclipse literature. The illuminated side of the semicolon faces away from the reader, like a moody child. This means that the reading lamp, reader, and semicolon are almost in a straight line, with the semicolon in between the reading lamp and the reader. The semicolon that we see looks very dark, like holes in the face of a mask.

 

"Somebody ought to write a book tracing in detail the workings of an aristocratic landowning tradition in present-day English social life."
—John Boynton Priestley, The World of J. B. Priestly, 1967, p. 188.

Who is funnier: Karl Marx or the Marx Brothers?

Clue:  This is according to James Agate

Answer:  The Marx Brothers.  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  James Agate, A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate (1945), p. 202

Prof. Oddfellow dons 3D glasses to witness the wonders of three D's.

"It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: If we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal."
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

 

Thanks to the New Straits Times for recommending our One-Letter Words: A Dictionary and noting that it features "More than 1,000 surprising — and revealing — definitions of each singular letter in the English alphabet; everything from 'a per se' to 'a hypothetical explosive.'"