Fish All Intransigence

I was tooling through a site called the "Grammar Curmudgeon" today, and came across a humorous article discussing the limitations of spell checking software. The following sentence struck me as particularly funny: "The pogrom lax art and fish all intransigence." Damned if I can even figure out what it's supposed to say. But, the phrase "fish all intransigence" sounds very much like one of those random spam titles. Or a rock band name.

Incidentally, is "spam", used in reference to unwanted commercial email, an acronym or some virtual alliterative reference to the "sound" it makes when it hits your inbox?

Well, we have a phrase everyone can add to their jargon repository: "TLA acronym". That's when the final word of an acryonym is frequently repeated, like PIN number, or ATM machine. We have"Three Letter Acrynym acronym". The Sporkster and I like to claim we made up this term (he may have originally thought of it--I can't say for sure), and we would appreciate if all of you would start using it, and give us the credit. I'm about 14 minutes and 58 seconds short of my 15 minutes of fame. I could use the line time. He's already "famous".

On a completely different subject, check out Guided By Voices' latest (and perhaps last) effort entitled: "Half Smiles of the Decomposed". What I can't figure out is why they aren't playing it on the radio. I have other current favorites, which do not include Franz Ferdinand (can anyone say "coaster pop"?). I thought I would like it, perhaps, but even though many bands always sound alike on every song, they irritate me.

I'm going back to my cave, now. All skate.

PS: Who is old enough to know of (and have heard) the term "all skate"?

When I was a kid in junior high, we used to have roller skating parties at the local roller rink (which is no doubt long gone by now). They would have periodic "couple's skate" intervals that were soon followed by these words: "all skate". But, I do remember the girl who lived down the road from me. Her name was Vickie. I think she liked me, but of course at the time I wasn't really "tuned" into girls. I may have been 13 or 14. Girls were soft, and they smelled good, but they were generally only interested in older guys--not short little geeks like me. My point (about time you got to it!) is that she would always skate with me during those couples' skates, which, because it meant I could stay out on the floor during that time, I viewed as an advantage.

*sigh* Alas, when someone asked me if we were going steady (and this was asked while she stood there next to me), I answered "no". She never skated with me, again.