Scissors
These are some neato scissors, uh huh. (My mother is the only person I have ever met who would have written the preceding sentence "this is a neato scissors", assuming she'd use the word "neato" at all.)
Via the same source, some enigmatic pedantry.
Comments
on 2006-12-26 22:07:02.0, bitchphd commented:
Yeah, I don't get the egg thing.
and, further, on 2006-12-26 22:10:50.0, ben wolfson commented:
I want to buy it.
and, further, on 2006-12-26 22:46:23.0, bitchphd commented:
But do you get it?
and, further, on 2006-12-27 5:02:17.0, mrh commented:
I don't get it either, but the scissors are cool.
and, further, on 2006-12-27 6:54:11.0, dagger aleph commented:
My mother is the only person I have ever met who would have written the preceding sentence "this is a neato scissors"
Would she really? I mean, if there was only one pair on that page, I could understand that. But there are many pairs of scissors on that page, so referring to them as "this" would be somewhat strange.
and, further, on 2006-12-27 8:18:03.0, ben wolfson commented:
You're right. I forgot about that. The point is, that when talking about a particular bifurcated cutting implement, she uses the singular.
and, further, on 2006-12-27 0:57:42.0, ogged commented:
It seems the pedant is playing the part of a general, brandishing a map, describing his plan for conquest of the egg.
and, further, on 2006-12-27 19:05:43.0, standpipe b commented:
Egg scissors were made obsolete by the Eierschneider.
and, further, on 2006-12-27 20:11:54.0, ben wolfson commented:
You think he looks like a general, and the others like military men, ogged?
SB: some of us prefer old-fashioned craft.
and, further, on 2006-12-27 21:57:17.0, standpipe b commented:
Above, I was showing, for B's sake, how to "get" the egg scissors by adverting to their more familiar successor-implement. I said nothing at all about preferences, dear, sweet Benjamin.
and, further, on 2006-12-28 6:47:08.0, Kriston commented:
I thought I'd find near the end of the list some of Claus Oldenburg's punchy scissors stuff (e. or g.). I think I'm forgetting somebody else's scissors that I'd like to suggest; I looked all over for some by Joseph Kosuth done in that triptych format, but maybe I made them up.
I don't get the egg thing either. But the Fairfield Museum scissors look like a preserved marine dinosaur (barnacle clad, long jawed, sturdy, curvy); I want to buy them.
and, further, on 2006-12-28 6:47:50.0, Kriston commented:
or
and, further, on 2006-12-29 20:08:41.0, fric commented:
They're imperialist Spaniards huddled around the egg of France, the yolk being Paris. Or musketeers?