Showing posts with label tv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tv. Show all posts

Sunday, 17 June 2018

My new fave antonym

Titus Andromedon in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Season 4, episode 5):

"It didn't backfire! It frontwatered!"

Wednesday, 28 December 2016

the opposite of 'cry'


 From 'Bottom' with Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson:

        Eddie:       ...Cry did you?
        War veteran: Quite the opposite actually.
        Eddie:       What? You sucked water in through your eyes?

Monday, 19 December 2016

You know me and you don't: Chanel advertising

Perfume ads are the bane of the Christmas season. So much style, so little substance. So much self-importance, so little consequence.

Simon Koppel kindly pointed this one out to me. Do the contrasts say "Here's a perfume for any occasion?" or do they just cancel each other out and say "I am nothing"?



Tuesday, 16 August 2016

opposite Georges

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

dog, not cat

Another thing I failed to cite when writing about antonyms. In my 2003 book I make the case that dog can be considered the opposite of cat, and here's Baldrick defining dog as 'not a cat'.

Thursday, 5 May 2016

George Costanza does the opposite

It is a failure of my academic life that I've never cited this in a publication.