Tangent: Tag love

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

Philology etymology you owe me an apology

(apparently a quote from Ogden Nash)

Macgyver would be proud

I Regret Buying This

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

(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

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

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

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

(category: truer words)

Tags Cannot Describe Philip K. Dick

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ceci n'est pas un tag

>12 norabelle414: !!!!!

https://www.librarything.com/tag/%2e

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

This is a bit unusual:

my neckbeard is longer than yours

The same member uses project Hipster Asphalt.

I love this thread. >15 Nicole_VanK: LOL

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.

>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.

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

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

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

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

>18 lilithcat: The bowler did it?

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

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

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)

>26 macsbrains: Those are excellent tags.

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

I love this one: Well-Meaning Wackiness

ceci n'est pas un tag

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

prc puglishing ltd. (Staff are probably adorable)

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

>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!!"

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

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

"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

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

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

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

Higgs bison

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

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-...

>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 . . ."

>41 lorax: Xclnt! Thanks.

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

>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. :-}

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

navel history
navel warfare
navel aviation
navel aircraft

"Fiction - 2060's"

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

>46 karenb:

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

our sexual tension has a body count

https://www.librarything.com/tag/our+sexual+tension+has+a+body+count

(category: typo = truth in advertising)

"writhing proces"

>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...

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

"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...

>52 SandraArdnas:

Dorothy Parker (allegedly)