Verbatim verboten

Phrases and words to moth-ball :
(mm mm bad!)

• mute testimony
• moment of truth
• moot point, esp. mute point (argh!)
• moth-ball
• master of one's own destiny
• just a mo'

Apple orgy

Those who have the last lapse shall inherit the wind.

My sincere apple-orgies to my fellow punsters. Others came up with "the last lapse" before me, as a simple google will reveal. I'm sure it won't be my last lapse. Not even a case of punintentional plagiarism - these homonymic puns are just too obvious.

Have you ever read Finnegans Wake, the punsters Babble? It's discouraging... every pun I ever thought of is probably prophesied there.

Hmmm....

For my part... I'm so tired... tired skulking behind cultural facades, agreeing to unsubstantiated mores. And I don't want to feel guilty any more... sick of feeling guilt while trying my best and being unsuccessful. I want to learn from my mistakes and not live in hell for trifling regrets.

Language en-gendered

Welcome to The Laugh Lapse, a playground for my enthusiasms: language, philosophy, music, gamelan, satire, gay issues, science fiction, puns, etc.

I'll start off with an attack on the gender-ification of language, intentional or otherwise, a la herstory, a misconstruction implying that history derived from his story. Don't misinterpret this pet peeve of mine as a dislike of feminism. I'm all for it. As a fag, I've always known that the wasps (white anglo saxon protestant straights) don't like to share power, and always have to be the top (missionary or otherwise).

Along these lines I suggest the following sexual pairings:

emancipate, effemincipate

emasculate, femisculate

effeminate, andronate