Yikes. I just looked up the release date. Makes me feel even more ancient than I already know I am.
[At least I wasn't around to see it at its premiere or in regular theater runs.]
#TexAvery - 1936
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“To coin a phrase”*…
Elliot Thornley nods to Shakespeare as the prodigious coiner of words (and phrases) that he was…
And then reminds us that Jeremy Bentham was no slouch with a neologism himself…
It’s pretty amazing. Shakespeare really shaped the English language!
So did Jeremy Bentham. He’s best-known for inventing utilitarianism and the panopticon [see here], but he also coined the words:
- Minimize
- International
- Percentage
- Pluralism
- Monetary
- Locating
- Marginalize
- Codify
- The prefix ‘self-’
- Maximize
- The prefix ‘post-’
- The prefix ‘infra-’
- Exhaustive
- Insurable
- Collaborator
- Alleviating
- Unaffordable
- Exclusionary
- Inexclusively
- Antagonising
- Deontology
- Disambiguation
- Eudemonic
- Evidentiary
- Characterizable
- Perusable
- Preferability
- Remediation
- Astuteness
- Uncalculating
- Uncoerced
- Unbridgeable
- Subvariety
You can find even more Bentham coinages at my source [lots more].
And as if all that weren’t enough, Bentham kind of invented jogging:
Bentham appears to have been a regular jogger—or, as he put it, ‘circumgyrater’. According to the journalist George Wheatley, who stayed with the eighty-one year-old Bentham in March 1831, before both breakfast and dinner Bentham would take ‘a few turns in the garden, which … he calls circumgyrating’, which Wheatley described as a ‘trotting or taking up a kind of trotting step’.
So not only are you quoting Bentham, you might be mimicking him too…
The second-greatest coiner of English words? “You are quoting Bentham.”
More coinage (and source of the image at the top): “Coined Words Acknowledged.”
* idiom
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As we commend contrivers, we might recall that it was on this date in 1940 that another colossal coiner of phrases appeared: the Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short “A Wild Hare”– the first “official” Bugs Bunny cartoon– premiered (though long-time readers will recall that Bugs [or at least, his prototype] made his inaugural screen appearance two years earlier). Directed by Tex Avery, “A Wild Hare” was nominated for an Academy Award.
#BugsBunny #Cartoon #culture #history #JeremyBentham #language #literature #phrases #Shakespeare #TexAvery #words -
https://nkvssp.thecomicseries.com/comics/582/
Guest art this week, with John Peters: Ralph at the beach
#Ralph #waves #ocean #TuesdayMotivaton #webcomics #comicbookhour #comics #webcomicchat #salty #coffee #TexAvery #style #Tuesday #vibecheck
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11 Jahre ist das jetzt schon her …
2013 war ich mit meiner damaligen Partnerin (vermutlich in Hannover) in:
"5 Jahre #Gernsehclub – das große Gernsehen:
#BastianPastewka und #RobertoCappelluti präsentieren #TexAvery"Ich muss zugeben, ich war nur dank Basti dort, "Tex Avery" sagte mir bis dahin nichts. Es war ein sehr unterhaltsamer Abend mit schönen Ausschnitten und interessanten Informationen 😊
Info-PDF: https://www.fairmedia.de/fairpress-pdf/pm_gernsehclub_tex-avery.pdf
Zur Info @wrzlbrnft, das kam mir in den Sinn, als ich grad nochmal auf deinem Profil verweilte 😁
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🎨 Tex Avery - Droopy et son Frère - ép17 - Complet - VF - Classique en VF et en 4K par RecrAI4KToons https://dai.ly/x8tvsyk via @dailymotion_fr #RecrAI4KToons #AnimationEn4K #MagieToons4K #TexAvery #Droopy #Drippy #Complet #4K #AI #ManySubtitles #Cartoon #DessinAnimé #GoodVibes #Retro
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A blog post I wrote about "The Casandra Cat" (1963), "Decision at Sundown" (1957), "Ninja Hunter" (1984), "Red Hot Riding Hood" (1941) and some other things - #CzechNewWave #VojtěchJasný #RanownCycle #BuddBoetticher #RandolphScott #JamesWuKuoRen #TexAvery
https://www.protozoic.com/2024/01/27/movie-roundup-for-january-24/
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For #FlashbackFriday, I have my two versions of "The Tex Brothers."
The first one, drawn in 2010 as a Father's Day gift, & the second a digital redraw with a few modifications that I wanted to make with Screwy Squirrel & the Wolf's poses/expressions.
#redraw #texavery #droopydog #screwysquirrel #wolf #marxbrothers #crossover #fanart -
@Viviane_DPR faut tendre un câble fin transversalement comme à Brest là #TexAvery
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Northwest Hounded Police (1946) #TexAvery #animation
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The Screwy Truant (1944) #TexAvery #animation #slapstick
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The worms turn around is so good. The Early Bird Dood It! (1942) #TexAvery #Cartoons #animation
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I am sure the animators knew what this looks like. Dangerous Dan McFoo (1939) #TexAvery #animation
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Dangerous Dan McFoo (1939) #TexAvery #animation
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The big dog's extra wind up for the run is what really sells this. #TexAvery #Animation #cartoon
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The pint sized tough guy. #TexAvery #Animation
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Evolution of DROOPY, Tom and Jerry & Tex Avery's Small Hero - 80 Years Explained | CARTOON EVOLUTION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKby9oIkIOwA look at #Droopy throughout the decades. With muzzles of different sizes and colors. And sometimes a father? This also serves as a bit of a history of #TexAvery's career, as Tex created Droopy and others at #MGM.
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CW: Bugs Bunny Musings
#ChuckJones' mantra about the writing for Bugs Bunny was: "Bugs must always be provoked."
I wonder what #TexAvery's mantra on the nature of the Rabbit was.
I know what I think: Tex's Rabbit was a #psycho.
I think Avery probably was, too.
Fun (and perhaps revealing) Fact: Tex Avery was from #TaylorTexas.
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Coucou @Meeea 👋
Je profite de ta présence sur #Mastodon déjà pour te remercier d'exister & d'être ici sur la #Fédiverse (moi qui ne suis quasi sur aucun autre résosocial, ca me parle) pour te poser une question au sujet de tes projets sur #YT :
Sachant ta passion pour les #Cartoons de l'âge d'or, ceux de la #Warner en particulier : Peut-on espérer voir un jour l'une de tes merveilleuse chronique qui serait consacrée au travail de l'aussi Légendaire que presque oublié #TexAvery ?
