Comments on: I am a verb

By: Robert Carnegie

Robert Carnegie — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:05:35 +0000

“Plait” -is- a noun and a verb. An online dictionary surprises by telling me that in one meaning it’s equivalent to “pleat”, to fold decoratively. I guess it’s just an insignificant difference like astronomer / astrologer or Dr. Spock / Mr. Spock.

By: drbuzz0

drbuzz0 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:18:41 +0000

I got bad astronomered a while ago. I had to create a very blatantly pandering movie to be bad astronomered. It did more than triple my website traffic for about two or three days. I’ve tried to get bad astronomered again but no luck.

It’s kinda like getting slashdotted but sexier.

By: MandyDax

MandyDax — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:20:50 +0000

Shouldn’t you put in the correct link to Travis Rector’s image gallery?

Here it is:
http://tinyurl.com/3bzadr

By: Dounk

Dounk — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:11:36 +0000

So do you agree with this usage?

Honestly I always thaught bad astronomering was being wrong about stars stuff. Maybe I was bad astronomering myself (this statement can only be false).

By: Rob the Orbiting Frog

Rob the Orbiting Frog — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:10:43 +0000

Surely next you should try to become an adjective? I assume you are a noun already…

By: uknesvuinng

uknesvuinng — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:59:21 +0000

Well, it’s lacks the verbal aesthetics of “slashdotting” and “pharyngulation,” but it’s a start. Maybe you could try “‘stronomered” or “plaited.”

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:43:29 +0000

He’s been Bad Astronomered again. It’s a nice site. Pretty pictures of stars and stuff.

By: Chet

Chet — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:49:31 +0000

I was a Technical Writer, in another part of my life. My editor told me once that I could “verb any word”.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:42:12 +0000

We are not amused.

By: Johnny English

Johnny English — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:58:45 +0000

Verb is good, but Phil when you finally incarnate yourself in the 3rd person, we’ll know you’ve teetered off the edge.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:23:00 +0000

Dear Good BadAstronomer:
Have you noticed that cartoonists almost universally depict evening scenes with a crescent moon oriented the wrong way? In that scenario the source of illumination had just sunk below the horizon, so why do they illogically depict it in the same orientation as a left paranthesis “(” rather than correctly like the right parenthesis “)”?
Maybe cartoonists are required to attend courses at the School of Bad Science, the same people who borught you the five-point snowflake and the four-color rainbow with green at the outside edge: Red-Orange-Blue-Green!
Keep up the good work,
Frank
Up in Eastern Maine

By: Sespetoxri

Sespetoxri — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:06:16 +0000

I wasn’t going to say anything about that little matter, but I attempted to show someone at work all those pretty pictures, only to be frustrated by badastronomerism.

We must fight badastronics in all forms!

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:04:47 +0000

Great job! Being a verb puts you in the exaulted company of the late R. Buckminster Fuller. (I Seem to Be a Verb 1970)

By: Ken B

Ken B — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:36:46 +0000

Good thing ttfnRob has a sense of humor. Otherwise, he might have handed you your head on a Plait.

Actually, there must have been a prior reference to Orbiting Frog on your site, as I have it open on the tab next to yours.

By: aporeticus

aporeticus — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:29:34 +0000

And you just did it again?