stark raving » stalk raving

Chiefly in:   stalk raving mad

Classification: English – /r/-dropping

Spotted in the wild:

  • Why are there kids playing in the lap pool? That is what the other pool is for!!!! I would be stalk raving mad too!!!! (link)
  • Not only does he express the inner thoughts of Willhelm, yet shows a personal side which expresses the crown prince’s poryphia stricken reduced him to a stalk raving mad wildabeast. Not only was he stalk raving mad, the wildabeast confronted his homosexual tendencies with Eulenburg and Walderee. (amazon.com customer review)
  • They will probably be mobbed by stalk raving mad girls. (link)
  • I’m not a stalk-raving-mad-scientist-full-blown-aficionado-coffeegeek yet….yet. (coffeegeek.com)
  • Then emailed a bunch of Mac applications home, only to have them look like the alphabet gone stalk raving mad (link)
  • You would be surprized at how much one person could listen to the same 3 beatles tapes over and over and over again without going stalk raving mad. (link)

See also _stark raven mad_ and _star-craving mad_.

| Comments Off link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/07/04 |

stark raving » stark raven

Chiefly in:   stark raven mad

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

Analyzed or reported by:

See also _star-craving mad_ and _stalk raving mad_.

| Comments Off link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/07/04 |

stark raving » star-craving

Chiefly in:   star-craving mad

Classification: English – resyllabification

Spotted in the wild:

  • And I see that your bi-polar cycle has apparently bottomed out, and the roller-coaster ride to mania has begun to RISE eggzactly as I predicted. By tomorrow, you’ll be star-craving MAD! (alt.consciousness.4th-way)
  • “This is my social life,” said Workentine. “It gives me a reason to get up in the morning. If I just sat at home looking at the four walls, I’d go star-craving mad.” (link)
  • I thought that I was going to go star craving mad over the weekend because there was hardly any posts!!! (link)
  • The snoring was enough to drive the sanest person star craving mad. (link)

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See also _stark raven mad_ and _stalk raving mad_.

| Comments Off link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/07/04 |

rabble » rubble

Chiefly in:   rubble-rousing , rubble-rouser

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • With a mise en scène that incorporates a backdrop of urban dystopia and decay, apocalyptic horsemen on hobbyhorses, a Shaker tune/Rumi poem mash-up, and rowdy audience feedback (which is highly encouraged), this rubble-rousing performance should make the usual picketing and sloganeering seem downright conservative. (link)
  • Fortunately, millions of you didn’t fall for any of that liberal rubble-rousing. (link)
  • It is easy for a rubble-rouser in a democratic garb to rise (and rise fast) to the highest pinnacle of power. (link)
  • Then, from an entirely different perspective, some rubble-rouser like Jean-Marie Le Pen will come up with an inflammatory statement and single-handedly revive the discussion about the nature of Nazi occupation in the Second World War. (link)

Analyzed or reported by:

Bernard Greenberg notes:

> Rabble, denoting masses of “ordinary” people, has fallen out of currency; in its wake, rubble, today de facto limited to the granular ruins of bombed structures, is usurping it in this phrase, giving us rubble rouser to eggcornically suggest one whose vigorous actions stir up dust-storms.

See also _rebel-rouser_.

| Comments Off link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/07/03 |

hegemony » hedgemoney

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • The Islamic Republic of Iran supports any muslim country who wishes to rid itself of the shackles of western hedgemoney. (link)
  • If Germany was to vie for European hedgemoney, then she could realistically expect to be tackled for it at some point in the future, either through economic pressure or perhaps even war. (link)
  • Federal hedgemoney should not be allowed to exist, because it tramples on unalienable rights and it exeeds the Constitutional limits placed on the federal government. (cannabisnews.com)
  • Music producers need to break from the hedgemoney of the current music industry. (link)
  • Forget American hedgemoney, get in my pot & stir the honey. (masturbateforpeace.com)

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| Comments Off link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/07/03 |