Snowclone meme

[thedarkages]

A linguist associated with Language Log has written a program to find "snowclones" -- variations on cliché phrases. The meme of snowclones is well established. Now, instead of your having to laboriously query Google and tally, the program does the work for you.

The program needs rewriting; the author should have read perldoc perlstyle, and it should really use SOAP to query the Google API instead of shelling out to wget at every opportunity.

That being said, here are partial results for "Let's blow this X stand."

# hits       phrase

536	let's blow this popsicle stand
193	let's blow this pop stand
50	let's blow this taco stand
22	let's blow this fascist popsicle stand
20	let's blow this hot dog stand
16	let's blow this popcorn stand
9	let's blow this kebab stand
5	let's blow this stalactite stand
4	let's blow this ice cream stand
2	let's blow this lame ass popcorn stand
2	let's blow this hot taco stand
2	let's blow this lemonade stand
1	let's blow this corpsicle stand
1	let's blow this popcycle stand
1	let's blow this banana stand
1	let's blow this fuck stick stand
1	let's blow this falafel stand
1	let's blow this haddock popsicle stand
1	let's blow this quiescently frozen treat stand

Comments

nothing to do with nothing

[omarius.livejournal.com]

As far as popular cartoons go, my ex and I once came up with "Poriferan Robert Rectangular Prism Trousers."

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

What's all this about blowing Captain Haddock's standing popsicle?!