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#1 2016-04-01 12:38:41

David Bird
Eggcornista
From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

Three nonces

April Fool’s Day – bring out yr nonces. This year I’ve posted most already, with little compunction. Here are the stragglers. A stay and age I read as a passage here below.

Why do game developers think they can get away with this kind of bs? By releasing more content/modes at a later date. Street Fighter V getting Arcade mode in June the latest and now episodic missions in this. In this stay and age? It’s absolutely ridiculous. SMH
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2016/02/24/h … us-members

I found that one when looking around for remarks about the modern world, which is dripping with this stain, to wit:

In this stain age nothings about personality it’s all about looks and beauty.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/ … &gl=ca4:01

I’m sorry but who the hell in this stain age wears FLARED JEANS!? like were not from the bloody 60’s people!!!
https://twitter.com/official_1dnz/statu … 6380451841

have found violence to be obsolete in this stain age….
http://www.imnotokay.net/board/topic/11951/27/

Next, a nice first person account of their analytical malady:

Oh!! I now have tinners elbow – fluid on the elbow that the miners would have had as a result from crawling through tunnels.
http://barbarahilldiary.blogspot.ca/201 … tched.html

A final straggler:

By the time they were actually doing it, a stupid smile had been permanently plastered on my face that made me look like one of the Braidy bunch on acid.
http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2009/ … -world.htm

Acorns: day and age, tennis elbow, Brady bunch

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#2 2016-04-01 23:38:33

kem
Eggcornista
From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2851

Re: Three nonces

“Stay and age.” Lovely. I always look forward to April 1.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#3 2016-04-02 23:22:11

Dixon Wragg
Eggcornista
From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

Re: Three nonces

This seems quite harsh in this staying age but it most definitely happens but in a more subtle way.
article

Why in this dane age of technology are we still using rubber cam belts and not timing chains?!!!!
car discussion

And that last one triggered other examples in the same discussion, such as:

In this stained age, a woman who marries her high-school sweetheart and sticks with him for decades is . . . antediluvian, in the best sense.

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#4 2016-04-02 23:33:35

Dixon Wragg
Eggcornista
From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

Re: Three nonces

A quick search found quite a few more examples of “this dane age”, such as:

Luck thrives in this dane age
gamer discussion

@BlairUnderwood on raising black men/sons in this dane age & the responsibilities it holds
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why do people start smoking in this dane age?
discussion

What many people in desperate financial situations in this dane age are able to do is start or have someone else start a crowdfunding page for their cause.
blog

I think it’s ridiculous that, in this dane age, we are still unable to accept gay people into our society.
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#5 2016-04-05 06:42:25

David Bird
Eggcornista
From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

Re: Three nonces

Oooops. In this day in age (my own advanced one) I should have trod more gingerly. See these stained, staying, stay-in, stain, dane and dying ages.

Last edited by David Bird (2017-09-06 19:22:03)

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