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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · Jun 17

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A grumpy looking man (80s?) with eyebrows like jousting ferrets is grumping to his wife that music nowadays isn't as good as it used to be.
She takes a bite of her scone and says angelically: "Some of US aren't as good as we used to be either." (1)

June 17, 2026 at 9:47 PM

Gareth

@grenow.bsky.social

“Unbudgeable turkey”!

#phraseoftheday

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Mar 18

just now my agent introduced me to "The book of my enemy has been remaindered", a poem by Clive James

10/10, solid gold academic humor right here

The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized
And sits in piles in a police warehouse,
My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles
In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.
Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aisles
One passes down reflecting on life's vanities,
Pausing to remember all those thoughtful reviews
Lavished to no avail upon one's enemy's book --
For behold, here is that book
Among these ranks and banks of duds,
These ponderous and seeminly irreducible cairns
Of complete stiffs.

The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I rejoice.
It has gone with bowed head like a defeated legion
Beneath the yoke.
What avail him now his awards and prizes,
The praise expended upon his meticulous technique,
His individual new voice?
Knocked into the middle of next week
His brainchild now consorts with the bad buys
The sinker, clinkers, dogs and dregs,
The Edsels of the world of moveable type,
The bummers that no amount of hype could shift,
The unbudgeable turkeys.

Yea, his slim volume with its understated wrapper
Bathes in the blare of the brightly jacketed Hitler's War Machine,
His unmistakably individual new voice
Shares the same scrapyart with a forlorn skyscraper
Of The Kung-Fu Cookbook,
His honesty, proclaimed by himself and believed by others,
His renowned abhorrence of all posturing and pretense,
Is there with Pertwee's Promenades and Pierrots--
One Hundred Years of Seaside Entertainment,
And (oh, this above all) his sensibility,
His sensibility and its hair-like filaments,
His delicate, quivering sensibility is now as one
With Barbara Windsor's Book of Boobs,
A volume graced by the descriptive rubric
"My boobs will give everyone hours of fun".

Soon now a book of mine could be remaindered also,
Though not to the monumental extent
In which the chastisement of remaindering has been meted out
To the book of my enemy,
Since in the case of my own book it will be due
To a miscalculated print run, a marketing error--
Nothing to do with merit.
But just supposing that such an event should hold
Some slight element of sadness, it will be offset
By the memory of this sweet moment.
Chill the champagne and polish the crystal goblets!
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am glad.

March 20, 2026 at 7:49 PM

Conversation Kenge

@fenken.bsky.social

#PhraseOfTheDay: 'a magic porridge pot of jelly babies'

March 1, 2026 at 7:14 PM

Lucie Frost

@luciehfrost.bsky.social

In one fell swoop?

#wordsofinstagram #idioms #wordnerd #writersofinstagram #dyk #til #words #phraseoftheday #lumberjack #axe #tree

January 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM

inetmanu.bsky.social

@inetmanu.bsky.social

#learninggerman #phraseoftheday ich bin glücklich

February 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM

Meg Howarth

@howarthm.bsky.social

#PhraseOfTheDay ➡️ #FlotsamAndJetsam ⬇️

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · Jan 26

January 26, 2026 at 1:02 PM

𝕋𝕒𝕪𝕝𝕠𝕣 ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕤

@taylorcollins.bsky.social

anthropogenic environmental impact. #phraseoftheday kind of like #wordoftheday when you need more words…. lol.

January 1, 2026 at 1:26 PM

Lucie Frost

@luciehfrost.bsky.social

Words are confusing. Do you know inflammable means flammable?

#didyouknow #nowyouknow #grammarnerd #grammarschool #wordnerd #howthehell #howthehelldidinotknowthat #wordsofinstagram #idioms #dyk #til #words #phraseoftheday

#booktok #grammartok #learnenglish

January 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM

Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

@lavanyadeepak.bsky.social

#PhraseOfTheDay: पाई-पाई जोड़ना (Paay-Paay Jodna) 🇮🇳

🔍 Literal: Adding every 'paay' (small coin).
✨ Meaning: Extreme frugality or saving meticulously for a big goal.

Similar to the English: "Every penny counts" or "Saving for a rainy day." ☔️

#Hindi #Language #Learning

January 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM

Phaethon(Unverfiable)

@phaethon.bsky.social

#PhraseOfTheDay for today - and in all likelihood, every day for the next four years - is:
"Without Evidence"

Despicable Donald holds up a signed executive order. On the left, it reads, "Proof? We don't need proof!" with a doodle of a crossed-out fingerprint and on the right, "Ban evidence" with the creature's signature.

January 31, 2025 at 7:23 AM

SNS

@stefannschwarz.bsky.social

/** Phrase of the day: I'm a big fan of FOSS!

Currently testing GrapheneOS – really fun!

*/

#PhraseOfTheDay #GrapheneOS

August 23, 2026 at 9:49 AM

OUGrad94

@ougrad94.bsky.social

Whores on the move.
#PhraseOfTheDay @Lowe1966

December 23, 2024 at 9:50 PM

Jeff Albiston

@jeffalbiston.bsky.social

#Phraseoftheday

December 10, 2024 at 12:09 PM

Komal Kaler

@komalkaler7.bsky.social

"recipes of intuition." —love the play on words #phraseoftheday

March 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM

Geekwithsoul's Archive

@geekwithsoul-old.bsky.social

"I know I'm looking forward to meeting a guy if I put an aspirational magnum in my purse." #PhraseOfTheDay #MaybeCentury #AspirationalMagnum

November 21, 2024 at 11:18 PM

Tiina Roose

@tiinaroose.bsky.social

Phrase of the day: fructiferous research #phraseoftheday Trying to get my head around what this means. Is it about 🍊🍎🍓🍍🍒 ? this appeared in mathematics paper

October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM

LeviathanCross27

@leviathancross27.bsky.social

"Dejá poo" 😂 www.instagram.com/reel/C9CEaP-...

Tom Read Wilson on Instagram: "#dejapoo #dejavú #poo #shitonesalreadyseen #phraseoftheday #frasedelgiorno #frasedeldia #phrasedujour #frenglish #tomreadwilson #wordsandphrases #everydaysaschoolday x"

28K likes, 854 comments - tomreadwilson on July 5, 2024: "#dejapoo #dejavú #poo #shitonesalreadyseen #phraseoftheday #frasedelgiorno #frasedeldia #phrasedujour #frenglish #tomreadwilson #wordsandphras...

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August 9, 2024 at 1:11 PM

jruck-archive.bsky.social

@jruck-archive.bsky.social

insertion order #phraseoftheday

April 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM

A Cat 🔜 gamescom 2025

@novemberalice.bsky.social

"Narrativistic colonialism" #phraseoftheday

November 19, 2024 at 8:55 PM

Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

@lavanyadeepak.bsky.social

#Hindi #हिंदी #PhraseOfTheDay
सूझ-बूझ से — सोच-समझ के

January 1, 2026 at 12:36 PM

Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

@lavanyadeepak.bsky.social

#Hindi #PhraseOfTheDay

🗣 प्रेम प्रकरण

Translation: A romantic episode, delicately framed for judicial scrutiny. When KD Pathak says it, even love sounds like a pending case file. Because “इश्क़ का मामला” is too pedestrian for courtroom elegance.

November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM

Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

@lavanyadeepak.bsky.social

#Hindi #PhraseOfTheDay

🗣 मदिरा का सेवन

Translation: The refined act of alcohol consumption, as euphemistically uttered by courtroom connoisseurs and KD Pathak himself.

Because “दारू पीना” just doesn’t pass the judicial vibe check.

November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM