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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Makes sense – the iris is part of the eye. The huge majority of instances are wordplay, but there are a handful of authentic-looking citations for this single-yolker out there. Examples:
Make circles for the eyes out of chocolate drops and add any colored sweet for the eyeris with a chocolate drop on top for the pupil.
http://www.graduation-invitations-gradu … theme.html
Now, a year later. I can poke myself right in the eye with my finger without blinking. I can grab my eyelid, I can pull gunk right off my eyeris when I wake up.
http://www.roclife.org/forums/archive/i … 77577.html
That’s because he didn’t make the eyes in general glow, but the eyeris. I think personally that the full eye should glow.
http://stacksmash.cultnet.net/brawlhost … fex/?p=463
White is not a good colour for this effect as your eyeris is very sensitive to white light, that is why we see on many dash colours like orange/yellow or green & blue, even street lights & car fog lamps are commonly orange/yellow for this exact reason.
http://forums1.avsim.net/lofiversion/in … 33043.html
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How did we miss this one all these years? It was staring us in the face (literally).
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Or staring out of our face.
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I like it too. If it were an unwritten language, we’d probably figure that was the right analysis.
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Interesting that some cases probably are referencing the retina (the last two above, or at least the last one), or the cornea (the third one) not the iris. But probably people use iris to mean “the/a major seeing/visible part of the eyeballâ€.
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