Wordie: Change one letter: Comments

Comment by chained_bear, about 6 hours ago

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:21:45 +0000

Hi sionnach... These examples don't really belong on this list, but they were funny enough I thought you'd appreciate them.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 month ago

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:39:55 +0000

This second batch are the Canadian ones:

Stout le monde: Is everyone getting fatter these days?
Tour de forcep: a long and difficult birth
Inter alias: among other false names
Smuchas gracias: thanks for the kisses
Chile con carnet: permission to emigrate
Armor vincit omnia: Tanks beat everything
Patter familias: I recognize your footsteps
Coupe d'état: government limo
Tubermensch: Mr. PotatoHead
In vino verbitas: Drunks talk too much
Souse-chef: cooking with alcohol
Squid pro quo - Who ordered the calamari?
Bad lib - Something you regret having improvised
Lad infinitum - Peter Pan
Sine qua neon - Nothing if not flashy
Semper fidelist - long-time Castro supporter

Comment by sionnach, about 1 month ago

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:38:04 +0000

AS i have too many lists already, rather than start a new one, I will include these here. The challenge is to change one letter in a foreign loanword or phrase and provide a new definition. This is an (annual?) contest in Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper - the list below is compiled from winning entries over a few years.

Actually, I think this first batch were submitted to a contest in New York magazine:

HARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS? -- Can you drive a French motorcycle?
EX POST FUCTO -- Lost in the mail
IDIOS AMIGOS -- We're wild and crazy guys!
VENI, VIPI, VICI -- I came, I'm a very important person, I conquered.
COGITO EGGO SUM -- I think; therefore I am a waffle.
RIGOR MORRIS -- The cat is dead.
RESPONDEZ S'IL VOUS PLAID -- Honk if you're Scottish.
QUE SERA SERF -- Life is feudal.
LE ROI EST MORT. JIVE LE ROI -- The king is dead. No kidding.
POSH MORTEM -- Death styles of the rich and famous
PRO BOZO PUBLICO -- Support your local clown.
MONAGE A TROIS -- I am three years old.
FELIX NAVIDAD -- Our cat has a boat.
HASTE CUISINE -- Fast French food
VENI, VIDI, VICE -- I came, I saw, I partied.
QUIP PRO QUO -- A fast retort
ALOHA OY -- Love; greetings; farewell; from such a pain you should never know.
MAZEL TON -- tons of luck
APRES MOE LE DELUGE -- Larry and Curly got wet.
PORTE-KOCHERE -- Sacramental wine
ICH LIEBE RICH -- I'm really crazy about having dough.
FUI GENERIS -- What's mine is mine.
VISA LA FRANCE -- Don't leave your chateau without it.
CA VA SANS DIRT -- And that's not gossip.
MERCI RIEN -- Thanks for nothin'!
AMICUS PURIAE -- Platonic friend
L'ETAT, C'EST MOO -- I'm bossy around here.

Comment by paulajane, 4 months ago

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:22:33 +0000

Naked Bunch
Baked Lunch
Naked Hunch

Comment by paulajane, 4 months ago

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:18:47 +0000

A Doom of One's Own

Comment by ofravens, 4 months ago

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:12:07 +0000

re: through the fooking glass -- I can take no credit for this, it's from the guardian books website that sarra linked to below, but I had to include it anyway because it made me laugh so hard I had to put my head down on my desk.

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:11:54 +0000

You guys are on a roll today! I think my new favorite is "Paradise Rogained".

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:06:56 +0000

Sionnach, I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying this list. I can't tell you because I'm laughing too hard. :-D

Comment by sarra, 7 months ago

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:25:07 +0000

Good point — that first page alone has crivens, a Scotsism; Bold and Ariel, British detergent brands; Sadler's Wells, a theatre noted for ballet which has lent its name to a company of same; David Blunkett, an ex-(I think!)politician; the Territorial Army…

Comment by sionnach, 7 months ago

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:09:32 +0000

Those Guardian list ones have a veddy British flavour. I didn't understand half of them.

Comment by sarra, 7 months ago

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:13:30 +0000

There's a huge archive of these I've enjoyed for a while. Guardian Books Talk: Change one letter in a book title

Comment by skipvia, 7 months ago

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:20:32 +0000

What pomegranate said! I'm really enjoying this.

Comment by pomegranate, 7 months ago

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:50:44 +0000

Hilarious damn list! Excellent!

Comment by gangerh, 7 months ago

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:25:41 +0000

Wuthering Heights 40 years on.

Comment by reesetee, 7 months ago

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:12:53 +0000

Haha! Excellent, sionnach!