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deck the halls a juicy one to the jaw
Thursday, 7 December 2006 02:59 pmAaargh! LiveJournal's toolbar is suddenly all over wreaths and season's greetings. Run for the hills! Christmas is looming! Or, if you must form part of the Thin Red Tinsel Line, make sure you've properly swotted up and take a preparatory stab at Llewtrah's Christmas Studies Exam, a joyous little compilation which proves conclusively that the spirit of 1066 and all that is not yet dead.
On a completely unrelated note, the dreaded stv has infected me with his current random cultural inquiry, which focuses on the phrase "see what I did there?", a popular blogsphere formulaic expression denoting ironically self-congratulatory, self-conscious recognition of one's own not particularly clever witticism or pun. (I assume the point is to try and improve the quality of the utterance by gratuitous metatextual layering of meaning, a project mostly doomed to failure on account of tweeness). Googling for the phrase pulls up 106 000 hits, mostly blogs, but absolutely no sense of where the hell the comment originates. I occasionally see it rendered as "See what I did there? Comedy genius!" The whole thing sounds to me like a catch-phrase from an American sitcom, but history is silent as to which one, or if in fact there is simply some particularly postmodern and influential blogger at the root of it all. Anyone have any idea where this started? I feel the need to apportion blame.
On a completely unrelated note, the dreaded stv has infected me with his current random cultural inquiry, which focuses on the phrase "see what I did there?", a popular blogsphere formulaic expression denoting ironically self-congratulatory, self-conscious recognition of one's own not particularly clever witticism or pun. (I assume the point is to try and improve the quality of the utterance by gratuitous metatextual layering of meaning, a project mostly doomed to failure on account of tweeness). Googling for the phrase pulls up 106 000 hits, mostly blogs, but absolutely no sense of where the hell the comment originates. I occasionally see it rendered as "See what I did there? Comedy genius!" The whole thing sounds to me like a catch-phrase from an American sitcom, but history is silent as to which one, or if in fact there is simply some particularly postmodern and influential blogger at the root of it all. Anyone have any idea where this started? I feel the need to apportion blame.
