Thursday, November 1, 2007

SNOWCLONES

Linguistics-savvy commenter (kan det være Curt?) on my earlier post pointed me to snowclones, a.k.a. The New Y. (Basically: ____ is the new ____.)

Love! It!

Here is the chart, and the link to it with commentary:

Here's further elaboration on it, with media examples.

That said, Putin is maybe the new Mugabe.
For serious.

1 comment:

sebastianhope said...

I know you like to geek out on semantics and such but, the article you just linked to seems to make the statement that, throat fucking is the new rough anal.
You have just bruised my sensitive sensibilities.