Dr. Metablog

Dr. Metablog is the nom de blague of Vivian de St. Vrain, the pen name of a resident of the mountain west who writes about language, books, politics, or whatever else comes to mind. Under the name Otto Onions (Oh NIGH uns), Vivian de St. Vrain is the author of “The Big Book of False Etymologies” (Oxford, 1978) and, writing as Amber Feldhammer, is editor of the classic anthology of confessional poetry, “My Underwear” (Virago, 1997).

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HMT? (How Many Today?)

For two days, I kept track of the initials that I needed to know to make sense of the world. Here they are, all familiar, no doubt: HOA,, MRI, IED, CNN, EPA, FDA, DNA, OMB, ED, NBA, COVID, GPS, AWOL, PTSD, TCM, WTF, BPL, TIA, ETA, MST. Just two days. IK that there's a part of the brain that stores nouns; I wonder if humans will evolve to develop an area to store acronyms. 

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    Don Z. Block

    Is TCM Turner Classic Movies? The miserable Comcast folks here yanked it. Does MRI refer to the scan? Echoing an old Dizzy Dean joke, I once had such a scan of my brain (after going deaf in one ear), and the doctors found nothing. HOA? OMB? CFDB? BPL? No MSNBC?

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    Don Z. Block

    Apparently, we do have an area in our brains where we store four-letter words. In my case, the key that unlocks that area is a cortisone shot in the bottom of my foot.

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