The Flummery

Half-scholar, half-wit, harlot, harridan.

[teachinginreallife]

When someone asks me how my semester is going

[theflummery]

#WhatTheForecast

[tastefullyoffensive]

[theflummery]

Googled "cool dogs". Was not disappointed.

[mostlycatsmostly]

Container Cat (via Matt Morring)

[theflummery]

What kind of soup is this?

[oupacademic]

With the many gruesome, and occasionally very creative, deaths that occur in Shakespeare’s plays, we’re lucky that there is an equally creative way for us to know when they’re going to occur. The Death Clocks, created among the Shakespeareana of @goodticklebrain, illustrate the order of deaths as they occur in each play with the very first appearing at the top. 

[literarystarbucks]

Wordsworth

Wordsworth goes up to the counter and orders a smoothie. It reminds him of a lake he visited once as a child. Then again, so do most things.

[literarystarbucks]

Happy National Poetry Month from Literary Starbucks!

[skookumthesamoyed]

WAT DOING

Instagram.com/skookumthesamoyed

[theflummery]

When you need to take out staples but you don't have a staple remover so you just use the foil cutter on your office corkscrew.

[theflummery]

Who wore it better?

[english321atconcordia-blog]

Dirtbag John Milton

John Milton, Teenage Dirtbag

Satan: where are we Beelzebub: I think we’re in hell Satan: good good that’s where i wanted to be anyhow so it’s good that God threw us here because i was just gonna take us here tomorrow anyhow thanks for the free ride sucker

http://the-toast.net/2014/07/08/dirtbag-john-milton/

[theflummery]

Amazing!

[lizclimo]

silver lining 

[theflummery]

This is amazing. So amazing.

[tastefullyoffensive]

Pun Dog #17 (previously) (via haydenquaver)

[beggars-opera]

Where can you get a copy of the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue?

Amazon, or a really eclectic bookstore. It looks like the 1811 version is the most popularly reprinted. As for an actual historical facsimile, I have no idea.

[theflummery]

Google Books has a historical facsimile you can download for free. If you have access to an academic library, you can find it on Ecco.

[beggars-opera]

Pssst tumblr I have a question

Will a fitbit work if you don’t sync it to another device

Like will it tell you your steps even if you don’t set up a computer account

[theflummery]

If it has a screen on it, yes. Otherwise no. But you can sync it to your smartphone so you don't have to use your computer.

[allmalepanels]

You could only find one woman who knew anything about British history?

[theflummery]

AND, unlike the men, that woman doesn't have "Prof" or "Dr." in front of her name.

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I don't even know how this happens, but wacky word placement is one of my favourite things about reading 18th-century facsimiles!