[Newspoetry] How about another game, boy?

[John]

make my day: 3,340,000
make my night 128,000
make my afternoon: 21,200
make my dusk: 4
make my bed: 296,000
make my couch: 50,800
make my sofa: 11,200
make my futon: 9

I'll waste more time later

On 25/01/2008, DL Emerick <emerick at tds.net> wrote:
> Looking for ways to waste your time?
>
> What criteria apply?
>
> Well, here's yet another one,
> from my exclusive CAN_YOU_GOOGLE_ME_NOW?(tm) collection:
> (sold under separate license, in some countries, as
> Go_Ogle_Go:_Leers_to_you.(tm) -- (c) Denied, 2008.)
>
>
> Rule 1:
> Pick a phrase,
> especially one that is hackneyed,
> a term that is not self-referential,
> for what would we call our use of "hackney"
> if the term applied to itself
> and we didn't want to be "hackneyed"?
>
> (I beg the question of plain language.)
>
> Example phrase selected:
> "to brighten any day".
>
> Google it.  Examine hit count, usage patterns, etc.
>
> (Etc. means "notice whatever you damn well please.)
>
> Rule 2:
> Transmute the phrase,
> as by the processes of inversion, negation, etc.
>
> Example transmuted: "to darken any day".
>
> Now, think about the matter, as long as you wish.
> (Obviously, the latter had 2 hits, compared to 792 for the chosen phrase.)
>
> Rule 3 (Mission Statement):
> Find the most common (hackneyed) phrase of the English language.
> (Other language users may play this in their own tongues.)
> And compare it with a few of its transmutes.
>
> WINNING THE GAME:
> The objective is to waste as much time as necessary.
> Stop playing when you've had enough for today.
> You win if you wasted more time than you had to lose;
> You lose if you quit merely because you're bored.
>
>
> Only a Year of Bush Remains
>
>
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