Being a Better Writer: “The Simpsons Did It” December 7, 2020Being a Better WriterCopying,New Writers,Original Works,Writing Guides,Writing Tips Hello readers! Before we get rolling with today’sBeing a Better Writerpost, there’s two bits of news you should know about!
Fall Out Boy is also the name of a minor character on The Simpsons. Coldplay is named after a collection of poems. And the Backstreet Boys? Their moniker came from a flea market in Orlando, FL, the Backstreet Market. Back in the day, it was a trendy meeting-place for te...
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The sentence reminded me of the Simpsons gag line, ‘They may say she died of a burst ventricle, but I know she died of a broken heart.’ Also, ‘a pandemic is a marathon, not a sprint.’ Ugh. How many times have transatlantic elites used this phrase to describe intractable problems...
One of the more intriguing and buzzed about sets of the day came from Danny Elfman, the longtime Oingo Boingo frontman who found fame in his second career as a soundtrack composer over the last few decades.Elfman served up a mix of score work from Beetlejuice, The Simpsons, The Batman and...
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Characters on The Simpsons, which first aired in 1990. Which makes the term even younger, as the process the character Ned Flanders underwent to coin the phrase didn’t happen overnight, but over the course of several seasons. In other words, this makes flanderization a uniquely modern term...
If you’ve been a long-time reader, you might have picked up that one of my favorite sitcoms isMarried…With Children.Watching it as a kid shaped not only my dark and naughty sense of humor, but also, much likeThe Simpsons, it gave me invaluable lessons about cynicism and hypocrisy, pr...
Because it’s hard for me to fill in the dots between this interesting piece of mail we got during the summer and sincere religious awakening. Behold these offerings from gospelpostcards.com, sent so that they might give us “the courage to trust in Jesus” (and click on each image to ...
You see, the NFL holds a trademark on the phrase "Super Bowl," and each year, their lawyers send out thousands of pre-emptive letters to advertisers, media outlets and even small businesses in the host city reminding them of what can and cannot be said, which are usually followed byat ...