Dear Miss Japan,

Sat, 11 Sep 2010
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I believe you just might have stolen my heart – any girl who can moo so resoundingly and so imaginatively is a front-runner for my love!

(Click on this link if you can’t see the embedded video.)

Well, she did make an attempt to engage with the questions. And she carried herself quite well too – I was very impressed with her poise when she delivered the sound effects.

With regard to our own local talent, I think our girl – Tania Lim Kim Suan – did quite alright, although her first two responses were slightly repetitive. But at least she’s using the dialect version of her Chinese name.

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Giant skimmer works by mixing metaphors.

Mon, 5 Jul 2010
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I thought this deserved a post of its own!

For those who need some background information, Abrams’s A Glossary of Literary Terms (7th ed.) says that a “mixed metaphor conjoins two or more obviously diverse metaphorical vehicles. When used inadvertently, without sensitivity to the possible incongruity of the vehicles, the effect can be ludicrous” (98; author’s emphasis).

And that concludes our Sensitivity to the Nuances in Language lessons for today. Lim Swee Say’s sweesayisms, unfortunately, are in a class of their own, and will have to be discussed another day.

McDonald’s Rockin’ Hot Cakes.

Mon, 14 Jun 2010
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lerSE2DnhPA">McDonald&#8217;s Rockin&#8217; Hot Cakes: YouTube Video.</a>

Anyone else remember this commercial from our youth? I used to sing along to it whenever it came on.

People too old for this commercial to have been screened during their youth are still welcome to reminisce about the good ol’ days.

People too young for this commercial – make whale sounds.