V Adj 'V in a Adj way'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Like, yeah.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Okay, Jon. I'm down with that. Better to bust cool than to break nasty!

-Wilson

On 10/11/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> Not verbatim, but _West Side Story_ has
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> X: "I'm gonna bust !"
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> Y: "Bust cool !"
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> A friend and I have been advising each other to "bust cool" in times of stress for close to 30 years.
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> JL
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> "Arnold M. Zwicky" wrote:
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> parallel to "meet cute" and some others we've looked at, here's
> "break funny", from Steven Johnson's "The Long Zoom" (NYT Magazine,
> 10/8/06, p. 55):
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> [about a computer game]
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> Hecker pulled up a new lineup to demonstrate a clapping animation
> that included a creature whose cranium is so inconveniently located
> that clapping forces him to slap both his hands against the side of
> his head. It looked like slapstick comedy of the highest order --
> vaudeville meets "Monsters, Inc."
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> "Our philosophy is," Bradshaw said, "if it's going to break, it
> should break funny."
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