Dude… this is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen:
Dancing Walrus

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Nate, I confess, this started all because I wanted to prank you. I saw that one thread in the mod forum (you know the one) and instead of being a nice human being and comforting you, I had the craziest urge to give you the biggest prank that I think YWS has ever seen. The [...]

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I know that there are some people here who come up with all these strange ways of naming characters. Sometimes they think, “ZOMG*, my character is a hunter, therefore I shall name him… Hunter! No wait… Orion! No wait…Kdjsaha!” And they just come up with these ridiculous names and it is slightly horrible. 
1) Too obvious. [...]

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If you’ve been listening to the news lately, then you’ve no doubt heard about a string of Supreme Court decisions that have proven to be somewhat controversial.  Of course, that’s how it always goes, but since the Supreme Court is in the news, it feels appropriate to go with a Justice theme for today’s post.
A [...]

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James Chartrand has a story up over at Copyblogger titled “Three Questions Your Copy Must Answer To Succeed.”  Needless to say, most of those who read this blog aren’t really interested in writing copy, at least not yet.  However, they are interested in writing stories that attract and hold readers’ interest.Producing good copy and producing [...]

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 ”Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” - Mark Twain
Although Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are two of my favorite books, Mark Twain isn’t one of my favorite authors.  Don’t get me wrong; he is by far one of the greatest American novelists.  However, his work is mostly [...]

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This week’s word is scissorfy.  As usual, make up a definition for it and post it in the comments.  Including it in a sentence is greatly appreciated, but not required.
Last week’s word was flummonade, and there were a lot of great definitions that people made up!  If you want a good laugh, read the comments.
But [...]

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So what do you think are the most attractive book covers?  You can name how many you want (1, 100… doesn’t matter), and I’ll put together a list later this week based on the responses.

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From http://www.etni.org.il/farside/analogies.htm:
The following originally appeared as winners of a
“Worst Analogies ever written in a High School Essay Contest”
in the Washington Post Style Invitational”
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at [...]

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Here are some nifty facts about today I thought were pretty cool.
1812
The War of 1812 began.
1815
Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by British, German, and Dutch forces.
1873
Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1928
Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic [...]

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So it’s June 17 now, which means almost everyone in the Northern Hemisphere is out of school for the summer.  So, how will you be spending these sunny days?  Got a job?  Camp?  YWSing it up?

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Every word nerd knows the rules–seven tiles, no peeking–but did you know that versions of Scrabble exist in Afrikaans, Arabic, Braille, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, and Welsh?
…that it was originally known as Lexico?
…that there are [...]

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This week’s word is flummonade, which has no Latin root.  It is purely a made-up word, so no extra points this time for staying true to the Latin root.
Last week’s word was deponinate, coming from the Latin root depono, meaning to put down, lay aside.  The winning definition comes from Lynlyn:
Deponinate: (v.) To remove from [...]

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So most everyone knows that Shakespeare invented the word assassination, right?
Well did you also know he invented the words academe, accused, addiction, advertising, amazement, arouse, backing, bandit, bedroom, beached, besmirch, birthplace, blanket, bloodstained, barefaced, blushing, bet, bump, buzzer, caked, cater, champion, circumstantial, cold-blooded, compromise, courtship, countless, critic, dauntless, dawn, deafening, discontent, dishearten, drugged, dwindle, [...]

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Sona si Latine loqueris.
Honk if you speak Latin.

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What’s an oxymoron? It’s a figure of speech that combines at least two contradictory terms. Some popular ones are “a real live ghost,” “deafening silence,” and “pretty ugly.” After the jump you’ll find the Top 45 Oxymorons from Jokes of the Day, which is apparently a blog that couldn’t think of a [...]

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In Narnia!

Well, in York-England….but still awesome!

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