Comments on: What’s a Hipster? http://www.waywordradio.org/whats-a-hipster/ A lively radio program about words and language, broadcast on many NPR stations and heard by podcast around the world. It's more than grammar! Sat, 18 May 2013 23:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Steve Noskowicz http://www.waywordradio.org/whats-a-hipster/#comment-2994 Steve Noskowicz Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:29:12 +0000 http://www.waywordradio.org/?p=1188#comment-2994 Forgot to mention… I think you have the name of your show all wrong. It is quite the opposite: “Away with Words”…Hardly…
Regards

]]> By: Steve Noskowicz http://www.waywordradio.org/whats-a-hipster/#comment-2993 Steve Noskowicz Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:25:35 +0000 http://www.waywordradio.org/?p=1188#comment-2993 Wait a minute… Is this a double joke:
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telemath on July 10, 2012 at 1:29 pm said: I recently heard this one:
… “I just had hip surgery. You’ve probably never heard of it.”
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Sounds like what a Hipster (or Hippie) has when he has his appendix out, no?

Scott Adams is a mater at Paraprosdokians, or is it Paraprosdokia, and even talked about his technique in his book.
Anyway, my favorite such thing is from Dilbert (2/28/2001) on Management Training:
” The two essential rules of management. ONE: The customer is always right. TWO: They must be punished for their arrogance.”
Regards, Steve

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