As a kid, you may have played that game where you phone someone to say, “Is your refrigerator running? Then you better go catch it!” What’s the term for that kind of practical joke? Is it a crank call or a prank call? There’s...
A conversation with a leading expert on polar bears has Martha thinking about several bear-related words, including the term arctic and the feminine name Ursula. This is part of a complete episode.
damselling n.— «In his essay on Robert Walser, Coetzee refers to the pleasure the writer got from “damselling,” which he defines as “experiencing a feminine life imaginatively from the inside.” We are probably safe...
anthropornography n.— «Adams coins the term “anthropornography”: “the depiction of nonhuman animals as whores”…. We have all seen anthropornographic ads, but for most of us, we didn’t register what we were looking at. A...
boi n. a feminine male homosexual or a masculine lesbian. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
boi n.— «You want to become a bigamist? ANd a gay one?! Well, you look feminine enough in that Goth Boi Babe picture.» —“Re: Industrial Web Pages! Labels!” Usenet: rec.music.industrial Aug. 14, 1997. (source: Double...