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NAB 🇬🇧🇪🇺🔶:marmite:

When The Boy was young, he always wanted to pick the most tacky baubles whenever we went in a shop selling seasonal bits and pieces. We gave in, bought a small fake tree and the Tree of Tat was born. Every year a couple more weird and wonderful ornaments are bought and evey year The Boy takes great joy in dreasing his tree. We're now on the third tree and I hope he carries on this tradition so that by the time he's my age, the Tree of Tat will be much larger.
#treeoftat #unchristmassy #tacky

Fake Christmas tree, about 80cm tall and dripping with unchristmassy tat. From a glittery shark to a three-legged reindeer via an angry owl and everything in between, the Tree of Tat has it all.
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Larry Russwurm

Alliteration is the use of the same starting letter in a name or a phrase. I like to think of it as being a literature because it seems the further away from literature you are, the more it is likely to be used.

Alliteration has a real cartoony feel. Like in Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Mickey Mouse, Porky Pig. Pierre Pollievre, etc. So it is used in many more cartoon characters than I have mentioned.

It is also commonly used in Marvel comics for names of characters. Like Peter Parker, J. Jonah Jameson, Bruce Banner, Daredevil, Green Goblin, etc.

A literature buff might argue that these sets of names are far away from literature, and in fact, a bit tacky.

Literature has relegated sounds to the tackiness scrap heap before. Do you like to rhyme words? Don’t do it in literature’s poetry. That has been out for over a century.

Instead, if you must rhyme, stick to writing lyrics for music or lyrics for a rap piece. Freestyle rap is after all, just a rhyming contest.

The only poems I’ve seen that still use rhyme are genre poems for science fiction and some of the poems in the Lord of the Rings. These poems are definitely not under the literature banner.

I sometimes find alliteration and rhyming fun. In sticking to its guns, literature, in this regards, is against fun. Maybe not being literature is a thing to be proud of.

https://larryrusswurm.com/2024/05/04/alliteration/

larryrusswurm.com Alliteration | The Many Rants of Larry Russwurm
#aLiterature#alliteration#cartoonyFeel
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🇺🇸 JewWhoHasItAll

My Christian friend Christina was complaining to me yesterday that she feels social pressure to buy a #tacky #RoshHashanah shirt for our #TotallySecular office #HolidayParty coming up.

She said she didn't feel like spending money for a tacky shirt to wear once a year for a #holiday she doesn't even celebrate.

I reminded her that another Christian officemate always wears a holiday shirt to this #party and sometimes even wins the tacky shirt contest!

Everyone is welcome to participate, and besides, the new year is a #secular holiday that everyone can celebrate regardless of their religion.

Christina rolled her eyes and walked away and she's been kind of cold to me since then.

What did I do wrong??

#MedinatAmerica
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