Hidden Missives

phlogger

2012-02-19T23:31:00.001-06:00

calx covered phlogistonian

Gilgamesh

2012-02-18T23:58:00.002-06:00

Epic questing king of Uruk

Trifle

2012-02-17T19:06:00.003-06:00

Underestimate one at your own peril.

Don't Do Drugs

2012-02-16T22:35:00.000-06:00

A Warning To Others

2012-02-15T23:08:00.002-06:00

Ebu Gogo

2012-02-14T20:11:00.002-06:00

Artist's representation of H. floresiensis,
lateralcephalic variety

cadger

2012-02-13T20:16:00.001-06:00

of rye whiskey

21212

2012-02-12T19:57:00.002-06:00

distancia

2012-02-11T23:31:00.004-06:00

above the fray

Strum und Drang

2012-02-10T23:57:00.003-06:00

seesawyers

cynanthrope

2012-02-09T22:43:00.001-06:00

Subject thinks he's a dog.
Examiners denied approach.

strigoi

2012-02-08T20:34:00.006-06:00

"foul feeder" - Byron

Wackford Squeers

2012-02-07T23:28:00.007-06:00

dastardly master of Dotheboys Hall
Happy 200th b-day, Charles Dickens

Sylvanian

2012-02-06T23:49:00.003-06:00

your typical tree nymph

mortal

2012-02-05T23:51:00.001-06:00

relieved of godly duties

Siri's husband

2012-02-04T19:14:00.001-06:00

can't get a word in edgewise

Napoleon Dynamite

2012-02-03T20:27:00.002-06:00

Bismol Brothers

2012-02-02T21:28:00.003-06:00

Dismal and Pepto, 1901

cut up

2012-02-01T22:59:00.000-06:00

fabulist

2012-01-31T23:39:00.003-06:00

spins yarn over Mad Dog campfire

fear factory worker

2012-01-30T19:48:00.004-06:00

motherfracker

2012-01-29T22:19:00.002-06:00

Blasting poisons into the ground -
what could possibly go wrong?

my intrepid ego, Walter

2012-01-28T18:41:00.004-06:00

aspersion caster

2012-01-27T23:55:00.003-06:00

Poppy Nogood

2012-01-25T23:56:00.001-06:00

One day your Phantom Band vanishes
and you're left with one lone drone.

Faunus

2012-01-24T22:45:00.003-06:00

practiced in the secrets of the lonely thickets

swami mummy

2012-01-23T22:26:00.002-06:00

Holliman Franchem

2012-01-22T21:06:00.004-06:00

deconstructionist architect

Green Man 12

2012-01-21T19:52:00.000-06:00

vague ideal

2012-01-20T23:22:00.000-06:00

Uncle Albert

2012-01-19T22:55:00.002-06:00

We're so sorry.

Morgue Arrival P

2012-01-19T00:56:00.002-06:00

Flaccid carcass recovered from a wheel well.

Appears zombish. Suggest hasty incineration.

XXXXXX

2012-01-18T00:01:00.000-06:00

SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-17T23:21:00.003-06:00

Kill Bills Volume 1 & 2

Why may not I love Johnny?

2012-01-16T21:12:00.007-06:00

And why may not Johnny love me?

Well, for one thing, Johnny doesn't exist.

Junker

2012-01-15T23:56:00.003-06:00

Field Marshall of Hohenzollern Prussia

Man of the Year

2012-01-14T20:38:00.002-06:00

John Q. Corporation

Hamish Kreebo Publius

2012-01-13T21:36:00.000-06:00

distinguished author of the Federalist Papers

hip lirp

2012-01-12T19:57:00.004-06:00

A snap of the fingers. Beat applause.
"The hipster dug the sounds laid down
and lirped his freak on."
-Century Dictionary & Encyclopedia, 1911 ed.

soliloquy of the dead

2012-01-11T21:42:00.002-06:00

Saint Anthony of Padua

2012-01-10T22:29:00.004-06:00

Lost something?

Call on the patron saint of the poor and of lost objects.
He has an excellent rate of return.

Howard Zeal

2012-01-09T23:53:00.001-06:00

your crusty but not so benign TV commentator

reassessment

2012-01-08T23:56:00.002-06:00

Franklin's been experiencing some major life changes.

post-tech girl

2012-01-07T18:47:00.000-06:00

circa 2030

scrivener

2012-01-06T23:55:00.002-06:00

This week's specials: eulogies and forgeries.
Next week it's sermons and suicide notes.

doloroso

2012-01-05T21:27:00.001-06:00

catalogic notation

2012-01-04T19:13:00.003-06:00

protocognition

2012-01-03T18:42:00.004-06:00

1212

2012-01-02T20:25:00.003-06:00

nasalith

2012-01-01T20:29:00.000-06:00

Subject has undergone a non-surgical
rhinoplasty procedure known as
calcitic tabularization.

in with 2012

2012-01-01T00:21:00.002-06:00

hello

out with 2011

2011-12-31T23:48:00.005-06:00

goodbye

locumgeist

2011-12-30T23:41:00.001-06:00

caddywampus

2011-12-29T20:53:00.002-06:00

Awry creature begat by union of British Columbian sea monster, the Cadborosaurus, and the common wampus cat.

Elsie mitt

2011-12-28T22:59:00.003-06:00

For Christmas, I got this oven mitt

in the shape of my Aunt Elsie.

Uncle Stanley

2011-12-27T20:10:00.004-06:00

tolerant of
and slightly bemused by
our antics

Uldin

2011-12-26T23:56:00.000-06:00

Pre-Attila, his Huns ransacked Thrace.

starchild

2011-12-25T10:10:00.005-06:00

strange visitor from another planet

starman

2011-12-24T23:59:00.004-06:00

waiting in the sky

stardust

2011-12-23T23:02:00.003-06:00

billion year old carbon

Ployer

2011-12-22T22:24:00.002-06:00

His plan was bent.

transmog

2011-12-21T22:27:00.004-06:00

Swenson's conversion to stalwarthyness
was something to see.

clastic caveman

2011-12-20T21:13:00.002-06:00

It now appears our long held belief
that early man was dumber than a bag of rocks
is not true. There were, in fact, no bags.

bigger piggy

2011-12-19T22:58:00.001-06:00

stirring up the dirt

hackles

2011-12-18T23:53:00.002-06:00

I may appear calm, but the holidays have raised my hackles.

Oceaniac

2011-12-17T23:25:00.003-06:00

I believe a Vanuatuvaluan, or thereabouts.

welkinist

2011-12-16T23:58:00.007-06:00

reflecting on the space between

jack-in-the-box

2011-12-15T23:54:00.002-06:00

Christmas gift idea #417

dingleberry

2011-12-14T23:53:00.001-06:00

firing squad target

2011-12-13T23:52:00.000-06:00

Stretch

2011-12-12T22:18:00.005-06:00

laughs at his own lame jokes

Amyphisto

2011-12-11T23:51:00.004-06:00

Marvel anti-hero who refused to be killed off

executive functionary

2011-12-10T19:16:00.003-06:00

so few remain

clavicytheriumist

2011-12-09T20:09:00.002-06:00

player of bygone pianoforte
-Century Dictionary & Encyclopedia, 1911 ed.

Carly's doll

2011-12-08T22:49:00.000-06:00

all they found

Duke

2011-12-07T23:52:00.003-06:00

in the depths of an ether binge

garden loa

2011-12-06T23:17:00.004-06:00

from Westboro Baptist courtyard

dross amasser

2011-12-05T21:23:00.004-06:00

lifestyle or affliction?

Haatchuz

2011-12-04T23:14:00.003-06:00

agent provocateur

2011-12-03T23:53:00.004-06:00

grasshopper

2011-12-02T22:39:00.003-06:00

Buster Wonklin

2011-12-01T21:56:00.000-06:00

Pulverize him all you want,
you just can't wear him down.

grave error

2011-11-30T19:10:00.004-06:00

no man's landfill

2011-11-30T19:06:00.004-06:00

Hyperionian

2011-11-28T23:13:00.003-06:00

Resident of the only moon in our solar system
to rotate chaotically. So don't blame him.

Lonie Rawls

2011-11-27T23:59:00.008-06:00

WANTED for terroristic threatening

She's Not There

2011-11-26T23:14:00.001-06:00

Please don't bother trying to find her.

erlking

2011-11-25T22:49:00.002-06:00

Follow him into the forest and
the erlking will do you grievous harm.

longing

2011-11-23T21:39:00.001-06:00

man in the moon

2011-11-22T23:58:00.003-06:00

112111

2011-11-21T20:38:00.003-06:00

monkeybotnaut

2011-11-20T23:39:00.002-06:00

NASA answers PETA

Baby's First Teeth

2011-11-19T23:39:00.004-06:00

A milestone for daughter,
and mother, too!

Memnoch

2011-11-18T20:33:00.003-06:00

banished for demanding God take
human form for compassion's sake

navigator

2011-11-17T23:56:00.003-06:00

for Flight 191

Milo ad astra

2011-11-16T22:13:00.001-06:00

Bonus Marcher

2011-11-15T22:59:00.015-06:00

Marcher in the Bonus Expeditionary Force, WW1 vets united to seek the Promised but Elusive War Bonus. Without Facebook or cell phone, assembled in Portland, Oregon and proceeded eastward, until they arrived in the nation's capital, in the thousands, created the country's largest Hooverville, formed a newspaper, a library, schools.. DC Police Chief Glassford, himself a vet, found them a place to stay and even bought them building supplies. Evalyn Walsh McLean fed them sandwiches. Tourists arrived on the weekends. It was integrated; no Jim Crow. Herbert Hoover called it a “temporary disease.” J. Edgar Hoover called them communists... bums... Weeks went by. A Bonus Bill passed the House, was defeated in the Senate, still thousands remained encamped in their sorry lean-to's & shanties, next door to the White House, until... the Great American War Machine was deployed at MacArhur's command.

"MacArthur ordered his men to clear the downtown of veterans, their numbers estimated at around 8,000, and spectators who had been drawn to the scene by radio reports. At 4:30 p.m., nearly 200 mounted cavalry, sabers drawn and pennants flying, wheeled out of the Ellipse. At the head of this contingent rode their executive officer, George S. Patton, followed by five tanks and about 300 helmeted infantrymen, brandishing loaded rifles with fixed bayonets. The cavalry drove most pedestrians—curious onlookers, civil servants and members of the Bonus Army, many with wives and children—off the streets. Infantrymen wearing gas masks hurled hundreds of tear-gas grenades at the dispersing crowd. The detonated grenades set off dozens of fires: the flimsy shelters veterans had erected near the armory went up in flames. Black clouds mingled with tear gas."

The United States of America veterans were given one hour to evacuate the women and children, then surrender. Guffed Mac: “Had [the president] let it go on another week, I believe the institutions of our Government would have been severely threatened.”

to be continued?

Quotes and background from an article written for Smithsonian in 2003 by Paul Dickson & Thomas B. Allen

Staurolite

2011-11-14T22:25:00.003-06:00

The Staurolites were a cruciform race.
They died out due to continual twinning.

stone spirit

2011-11-13T11:22:00.004-06:00

Another attempt at matching
a clay to an implied stone face.

Saint Fiacre

2011-11-12T15:32:00.004-06:00

7th Century patron saint of herbs, taxi drivers,
and sexually transmitted diseases.