Eric Berlin writes:
I know you have at least a passing interest in wordplay and puzzles, so you may be amused by a discovery made by [David Shukan,] one of my co-members in the National Puzzlers' League.
A drop of background: The NPL's monthly newsletter, The Enigma, is filled with puzzles. Some of these are rebuses. In a rebus, you are given a symbol or a series of symbols, and must decode their meaning. For instance, given the symbol
B
you might arrive at the answer "abalone" — "a b, alone." (You are also given a verse with a word removed, so you can use the context of the verse to help guide you to the answer.)
The discovery made by my colleague is this: Your blog post here can be used as a rebus symbol in the same way as the B above. The answer to this rebus is shown in the very first comment to that post: "Probably judicial immunity from suit is better than the alternative, but man, I can't help wishing for 1983/Bivens liability for such solutionly out-of-line judges."
What is the solution, which both fits the comment and describes my post? No fair peeking.
Thanks to EB for forwarding my little observation to a larger audience.
Here's one: eə
In case that doesn't work in other charsets, that's "e", followed by the "Schwa".
My favorite:
"Oh, no, I've dropped my toothpaste," said Tom, crestfallen.
"Oh no, the wave broke," said Tom crestfallenly.
"But that angle is more than 90 degrees," Tom said obtusely.
"I still think that woman is really a dude," Tom said intransigently.
"I just don't know what to think about homosexuality," said Tom, half in earnest.
"Necrophilia, however, suits me fine," said Tom, in dead earnest.