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Tangent: Tag love

1karenb
Modifié : Juin 29, 2019, 3:39 pm

LT is full of tags. Here are some that we like. (links optional)

2karenb
Modifié : Juin 29, 2019, 3:39 pm

Philology etymology you owe me an apology

(apparently a quote from Ogden Nash)

3karenb
Juil 8, 2019, 4:12 pm

Macgyver would be proud

4karenb
Juil 10, 2019, 4:03 pm

I Regret Buying This

(I know that I've been there. -KB)

5karenb
Juil 13, 2019, 2:00 am

(If there is a prize for "No, tell us how you REALLY feel", this tag would be eligible.)

I Hate This Cover With the Fiery Passion of 1000 Suns

6lorannen
Juil 15, 2019, 11:59 am

>5 karenb: Ooh, I've got some good candidates for that one!

7karenb
Juil 18, 2019, 6:46 pm

Tag: "Dark Lord Approved!" (for the Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynn Jones

8karenb
Juil 22, 2019, 3:36 am

Don't forget: "totally a legitimate work"!

9karenb
Juil 26, 2019, 2:44 am

(category: truer words)

Tags Cannot Describe Philip K. Dick

10karenb
Juil 26, 2019, 2:50 am

5555555555555555444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 (this was a tag by my cat)

11karenb
Juil 26, 2019, 2:51 am

ceci n'est pas un tag

13karenb
Août 5, 2019, 1:11 pm

14bnielsen
Modifié : Août 12, 2019, 9:50 am

15Nicole_VanK
Août 6, 2019, 12:18 pm

I introduced "slightly nibbled" when my dog was a pup.

16lilithcat
Août 12, 2019, 9:13 am

This is a bit unusual:

my neckbeard is longer than yours

The same member uses project Hipster Asphalt.

17SandraArdnas
Août 12, 2019, 9:18 am

I love this thread. >15 Nicole_VanK: LOL

18lilithcat
Août 12, 2019, 9:53 am

There's a tag "Hat crimes". It's a typo for "Hate Crimes", but I have to say that I have a book that could arguably be so tagged: The Girl with the Hat: Esther Mercy vs. Marion Talbot.

Miss Mercy, a student at the University of Chicago, owned a hat, from which aigrettes were stolen. During the investigation, it was discovered that the hat had been given to her by her fiancé. Marion Talbot, Dean of Women, accused Miss Mercy of immorality, and she was expelled for having a "bad character". Miss Mercy sued Talbot for slander, won at trial, but the verdict was reversed on appeal.

19AnnieMod
Août 12, 2019, 4:18 pm

>18 lilithcat: The Mad Hatter Mystery also :)

Called in to investigate the theft of a rare manuscript from collector Sir William Bitton, larger-than-life detective Dr. Gideon Fell is greatly amused to find London agog over "The Mad Hatter"--a prankster who steals the hats of the rich and famous from their very heads. But when Bitton's nephew is found dead inside the Tower of London with a stolen hat on his head, Fell's interest quickly turns from manuscripts to murder.

20bnielsen
Août 12, 2019, 4:49 pm

>19 AnnieMod: and of course the Bond villain Oddjob who throws his hat at people.

212wonderY
Août 12, 2019, 8:49 pm

It's not major crime, but a series of petty thefts in The President's Hat.

22macsbrains
Août 12, 2019, 8:50 pm

>5 karenb: That's one of mine. I'm pleased to be represented in this thread. :)

23karenb
Modifié : Août 13, 2019, 12:33 am

>22 macsbrains: Xclnt! It is a great tag.

>18 lilithcat: The bowler did it?

24SandraArdnas
Août 22, 2019, 9:11 am

Another candidate for "No, tell us how you REALLY feel" prize: set-myself-on-fire-first

https://www.librarything.com/tag/set-myself-on-fire-first

25norabelle414
Août 22, 2019, 9:46 am

>24 SandraArdnas: I think that's one of those Goodreads in-jokes. That user has a lot of them.

26macsbrains
Août 22, 2019, 12:53 pm

My younger sister (who apparently has been greatly influenced by my own peculiar tagging conventions) has the following sets of tags which make me laugh when I see them listed together. They include:

How do you want me to pronounce that? (5)
no seriously i have no idea how you want me to pronounce that (1)

and this set

I Almost Cried (1)
I Cried (8)
I Cried A Little (1)
I Cried For Days (2)
I Cried on Public Transit (3)
I lol'd (6)

Also she has

Someone Might Lose an Eye (10)
Someone Might Lose an Eye and Then Get a Different One Back (2)

28karenb
Août 22, 2019, 11:21 pm

>26 macsbrains: Those are excellent tags.

>27 Stevil2001: Hmm, alas I would not know the answer to that question.

29SandraArdnas
Août 25, 2019, 3:02 pm

I love this one: Well-Meaning Wackiness

30karenb
Août 25, 2019, 3:14 pm

ceci n'est pas un tag

31karenb
Modifié : Août 29, 2019, 6:32 pm

Searching through previous topics, there's also this brief conversation: Tags: a bit amused here.

32karenb
Sep 12, 2019, 6:51 am

prc puglishing ltd. (Staff are probably adorable)

33karenb
Sep 14, 2019, 5:30 pm

"shark attach" -- like "the heartbreak of ramoras", only . . different

34macsbrains
Modifié : Sep 14, 2019, 11:27 pm

>33 karenb: I use a shark oven mitt, so from now on, when putting it on, I will be sure to strike a pose and declare, "Shark! ATTACH!!"

35SandraArdnas
Sep 15, 2019, 8:55 pm

'Beyond Shite Endings' was awarded to 3 novels so far

https://www.librarything.com/tag/Beyond+Shite+Endings

36Zoes_Human
Modifié : Sep 16, 2019, 10:16 am

"bran surgery"

I have a mental image of a surgical team carefully slicing into a bran muffin in preparation to put a pat of butter in.

https://www.librarything.com/tag/bran+surgery

37Stevil2001
Sep 16, 2019, 2:09 pm

>36 Zoes_Human: It would have been a much less sad story if the tag was accurate!

38lilithcat
Sep 16, 2019, 8:44 pm

I'm guessing Livery Surgery occurs after your limo driver crashes the car and it's taken to the body shop.

39karenb
Sep 16, 2019, 10:04 pm

>38 lilithcat: and the chauffeur's uniform, if it needs mending

40karenb
Modifié : Nov 4, 2019, 3:44 pm

Higgs bison

(ETA: Category: typos I wish I made, myself)

41lorax
Nov 4, 2019, 4:25 pm

karenb (#40):

Higgs bison

It's not out of the question that this was intended, rather than a typo:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/18/498281083/higgs-bison-is-the-...

42lilithcat
Nov 4, 2019, 4:38 pm

>41 lorax:

Very likely.

The book so tagged is The Lost Art of Gratitude, by Alexander McCall Smith. Here's the relevant quote:

Grace had stood her ground during that discussion. "There are plenty of things nobody can see," she said. "What about that particle thingy that they're trying to find. That Higgs bison, or whatever."

"Boson," Jamie had interjected. "Higgs boson. It's a sort of . . ."

43karenb
Nov 4, 2019, 7:12 pm

>41 lorax: Xclnt! Thanks.

(I wasn't sure if it was a typo, so I didn't propose combining it.)

44Lyndatrue
Nov 4, 2019, 7:39 pm

>41 lorax: >42 lilithcat: and >43 karenb: This is precisely why I read these threads, and Higgs Bison has now become a part of my vocabulary. Thank you all. :-}

45karenb
Nov 16, 2019, 6:36 pm

All of the typos of "navel" for "naval" that relate to the military, such as

navel history
navel warfare
navel aviation
navel aircraft

46karenb
Nov 19, 2019, 1:21 pm

"Fiction - 2060's"

...and (as yet) no nonfiction tags for dates that have not yet occurred

47AnnieMod
Nov 21, 2019, 12:48 pm

>46 karenb:

Both books are set in the 2060s though so it is not that surprising of a tag.

48amanda4242
Nov 22, 2019, 10:44 pm

49karenb
Déc 31, 2019, 5:25 am

(category: typo = truth in advertising)

"writhing proces"

50Dilara86
Fév 8, 2020, 10:54 am

>7 karenb: This one's mine!

Someone uses a life transparent speculative transparency missing persons boredom dullington light bulb private detective yawning cretin evil horror disappearance sparrow liminality love monochrome as a single tag, which is almost poetry, but might just be caused by some kind of import hiccup...

51karenb
Mar 10, 2020, 7:22 pm

Vampire Hintress: helpful with puzzles, often subtle, or simply passive aggressive?

52SandraArdnas
Avr 10, 2022, 10:16 am

"This book should not be tossed lightly aside. It should be thrown with great force."

https://www.librarything.com/tag/%22This+book+should+not+be+tossed+lightly+aside...

53lilithcat
Avr 10, 2022, 10:57 am