Adjectives and verbs and adverbs and more! Cliches are made of words. Most cliches derived from accuracy, but lose their meaning over time. Our eggnog-sodden team looks into old ones. We pick at many of our favorites.
Mentions from Episode 26:
- “She hath caused me to rend my garment!”
- Harbinger – https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/harbinger
- KC Lancaster the artist – Jeannie’s Harbinger from the LARP days
- Batman
- Forlorn Hope – We learned about this from Sharpe’s Regiment
- David Drake – Hammer’s Slammers has awesome Hovertanks. Jeannie totally fan-girled at him at #WFC2019
- Pain
- How to Hoist by your own Petard, aka make a homemade bomb badly
- The original Le Petomane
- Blazing Saddles totally used this on purpose for a fart joke
- John’s Anti-Cliche from Terry Pratchett – Perillos’ Bull example
- Chaz asks how far can 8 strong men carry a litter with a girl on it? 15 miles is fair, allegedly.
- Jeannie puts in a plug for longer if they were sousaphone players.
- Yomp – long-distance slang for carrying a load over a long distance
- Raynald the pirate
- Titted boobily – okay, describe yourself the way a Male Author would FB page
- Here’s a wet Jason Momoa from Jeannie as a gesture of love
- Armstreet – the amazing armor and clothing store in Ukraine
- Chaz’ sweet chestnut jokes
- Read The Princess Bride online
- Lemony Snicket books
- Spaghetti alla Prostitutes