HAMMER, n. An instrument for smashing the human thumb- a
malleus as the Latin hath it. One of the old Frankish kings was called Charles Martel, or Charles the Hammer, because he was a beat.
2006 Update: A blunt instrument unless compared to a statistic.
I have no further message this morning but have developed a bad habit
Numero uno *bangs them on the head with it*
ReplyDeleteIf I had a hammer, I'd hammer out a meaning. I'd hammer out a meaning all over this blog.
ReplyDeleteAs it is, I'll just hammer on the keyboard.
hammer: sometimes the only solution. also see Lennon/McCartney.
ReplyDeleteWhat bad habit???!!! Not you, please tell me not you.
ReplyDeleteHammer: To hammer into the ground ~ a subject ~ or a word ~
I am sure that will happen here today.
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail!"
ReplyDelete-Abraham Maslow-
I personally like the idea that if hit by a hammer, you exercise your right to freedom of speech to its fullest!
I hereby claim Doug´s bad habit and announce that the message he would like to pass on today is:
ReplyDeleteVOTE for Minka!
Hammer Time!
ReplyDeleteU Can't Touch This
Or maybe it's just earworm time.
(*nods Minka*)
ReplyDeleteHammer: the name of an old singer guy (also known as MC Hammer)
ReplyDeleteThis is another one of those "I've only had 4 hours of sleep" comments... I think I've learned my lesson. No more 2 AM trips to see friends at work for me.
That goes along with your bad habit... we've all got one...or a few. Mine just happens to be my current love interest.
well Sar took the earworm i'd hope to use. sigh. this serves to hammer home the value of rising early, *not* missing worms, etc.
ReplyDeleteand Solace Cai, your youth is showing! (not that that's a bad thing...) let's try to remember MC Hammer as the guy who also did the theme song for the Addams Family Movie!
Doug: you haven't taken up smoking and/or cross-dressing as a nun, have you?
Hammer,n. one of the tools depicted in the East-Germany flag!
ReplyDeleteHammer, Zirkel, Aehrenkranz!
by the way, the *first* earworm i missed was hammered out by TLP... well done, missy!
ReplyDeleteHammer, v.: 1. To strike repeatedly. 2. To teach.
ReplyDeleteI always thought it was a Black Musician!
ReplyDelete:)
another favorite line from *another* favorite movie:
ReplyDelete"You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers" ~ Ulysses Everett McGill, O Brother, Where Art Thou
hammer: means for releasing an idea [see also, Athena, Goddess of Wisdom & Thought v. Zeus, God of Thick Skulls]
ReplyDeleteKeep the commenting up and pretty soon you will end up as verbose as your sistah hermano mio! Cuidado, cuidado! Habits are hard to kick!
ReplyDeleteHammer... *sigh* the object of many a bohemian fantasy whilst surrounded by toxic people...
Hammer: Thor's weapon of choice
ReplyDeleteOne of Thor's famous battles with an invading giant named Nial has blessed us with many current slang terms, some of them being: "Hammer some sense into him ..." and "You've really hammered it," as well as the most famous phrase of all, "Hitting the Nial on the head."
Dam the Colorado, TLP, I gotta sing that this Sunday!
ReplyDeleteHAMMER, n. A bad actor. See KIRK, JAMES T..
WRENCH, n. Hammer. See also SCREWDRIVER, VICE GRIPS, PLIERS, SCISSORS, ROCK
Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. Corollary: if the need is sufficient, any available object becomes a hammer.
Sickle and Hammer, don't you think this is the day for us to sing the Internationale together, Monika???
ReplyDeletefurther message suggestion: today in 1819 Allan Pinkerton founded Chicago detective agency.
ReplyDeleteHAMMER,n. A style of verbal expression favored by individuals likewise lacking in subtlety or nuance.
ReplyDeleteMinka, even hopping you're a danger.
ReplyDeleteTLP, if only someone would. Let's get you the Hammer of Sarcasm, the Bell of injustice.
Brian, I think that should be anvil.
Ariel, if bang bang Maxwell were that clever, he'd be dangerous.
Mo'a I got to work to find 26 comments and I like your odds.
Everyone, I just noticed on Mo'a's blog a link to the website for her art and this curmudgeon is top impressed to do anything but praise her work as stunning. Give a gander! That's one talented, creative lady making fun of us.
That's a great quote, Minkam and it's true a hammer is a great shortcut to self-actualization. So is hijacking.
Sar, another earworm. Did you know he got his stagename because people thought he looked like Hammerin' Hank Aaron? Now ya do.
Solace, that's a good bad habit. But old? I hope he's my age.
Puppybrose, I meant putting announcements at the bottom of posts but great nun pun!
Proper, Shamrock.
Minka, I'm with you up to Ährenkranz. Was ist daß?
Anomie, I don't know that one but I love watching people get eaten! Brings me peace in my heart. Do you think Netflix will have it?
That's it, Brian. We're killing time waiting for Dewy.
Weirsdo, to teach piano I guess it goes double, huh?
Starbender, welcome!
Puppy, great line from a great flick. Trivia time, do you know where the title came from?
Puppybrose, I believe that was an axe, but whatever it takes to get wise, I always say.
Haha, Miz B, I know I'm in the red zone lately. I know what you mean, too. When surrounded by enough fools, a hammer becomes erotic art.
Quilldancer, nicely done. Especially "Hitting the nial on the head."
O Ceallaigh, I love your definition of wrench. See also tooth, fist, heel, buck knife, forehead.
Ariel, thanks for both suggestions. Hum a few bars and see if we can pick it up.
Damn straight, Duxfine!
Hammer as in M.C. Hammer as in Stanley Burrell whom I met when he was 12-years old and then only destined to be the "Can't Touch This" flash in the pan.
ReplyDeleteAt the time of making his acquaintence young "Hammer" was in the employ of one Charles O. Finley, then owner of the Oakland A's Baseball Team...Finley had seen him dance in the parking lot, liked him, and hired him to be his eyes and ears at the stadium while Finley was away at his Chicago home. He earned the nickname "Hammer" because he looked a bit like a young Hank Aaron.
(apologize for the d-list name dropping...didn't have the willpower to resist...I am weak.)
hammer: for when you care enough to slam the very best.
ReplyDeleteDoug, hope your habit doesn't require shoveling.
O Brother: Sullivan's Travels?
ReplyDeleteas for the hammer v axe? well, being a good Wikipediot, i double checked and found it was either/or. good enough for me and/or a comment!
(i kind of figured the "bad habit" was message-related)
Don't apologize Joel. I'm always up for a baseball story. And Hammerin Hank Aaron was who I thought of for the definition.
ReplyDeleteLook kids, all those homeruns and no steroids!
At one time, Tom DeLay ... as he was pounding Texas voting districts into a shape that pleased him. Ahhh Tom. (Straighten that toupee! No one loves a crooked-haired convict.) xoxo
ReplyDeleteI hammered the man who sung the music
ReplyDeleteGet progressively worse at this!
Of course, Mireille! How did I miss making the Tom DeLay/Hammer connection?? *shakes head*
ReplyDeletePia I know you would've made it, but you got here after Mireille. I have no excuse, but I'll claim sufferage from a bad earworm.
Mike Hammer: figment of Spillane's imagination
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hammer: stiletto induced toe deformity (sorry Sar, it had to be noted)
and you are SO correct, Doug, Mo'a's artwork is *magical*.
There is a certain shark with a head shaped like this.
ReplyDeleteYes - yay Mo'a. I've got a piece of her art sitting innocently on my buffet... an elf of sorts. He brings us great joy.
ReplyDeleteJoel, that's pretty cool and MC Hammer is no worse than C-list to me since he rapped on a Bebe and Cece Winans album.
ReplyDeleteHaha, G, I've been snowed under.
Smart puppy! I always remember it as Haephestus' axe.
Amen, Mutha. I used to go to Braves games at the old Atlanta/Fulton County stadium and I was always moved by the marker where Hammerin' Hank's 715th home run cleared the left-center wall. I will not feel the same about Barry Bonds accomplishing the same thing.
Mireille, I'm hoping he'll be a hammeree.
Pia, they were just scales!
Sar, what can be done to alleve your sufferage?
Puppy, it sure is. In all of noiriana Mike Hammer is the one I never quite got the fascination of.
True, Terry and likewise a blogger. Smart purchase. Elves make great gifts ;-)
Hammer Toe, Hammer Hand, Hammer Head
ReplyDeleteAll actions followed by inventive language.
And we all know, that Mike Hammer can not hold a candle to Spencer( I never think we learn his first name ) for Hire....
a4g: yeah, but not *Super* Mario... seriously, those Hammer Brothers were brutal!
ReplyDeleteYou guys are really hammering out the definations here. Looks like I'm not needed. Think I'll go get hammered.
ReplyDeleteV.I. well done finding something new to do with this word. I remember when Spenser was on, but I don't think I saw it. The Rockford Files kicked butt, though.
ReplyDeleteHaha, a4g. Great way to end the week. Have a good weekend.
Puppybrose, I'm just a poor country boy. That went way over my head, culturewise.
Quilldancer, raise a glass to you for me.
Actonbell, from the perspective of someone who knows you only by blogging, that was a perfect self-descriptions. I always look forward to Fridays when we get tipsy AB. Have a great weekend.
That wasn't Cooper. Nor Ariel.
ReplyDeleteI'll have what Actonbell and Quilldancer are having.
Hammer: A very handy tool to be used by an overworked employee directly ON the head of their ugly boss.
ReplyDeleteWhich reminds me of the many occasions I needed one. So badly. Oh well...
Cheers!
really? you never played Super Mario Brothers?? i mean, i know little of the genre, but, uh... Super Mario Bros. is a Nintendo Classic. (that said, the only video game i was ever good at is Pong.)
ReplyDeleteoh, and not to take anything away from VI (as if) but what the hell did you think i meant by "stiletto induced toe deformity??
okay. i'll go now. apparently i was in need of a little attention because someone around here is watching the Dodgers : P
hammer: A blunt instrument unless compared to a statistic. (Also see Tom "the Hammer" DeLay.
ReplyDeleteBTW, what's the bad habit. We need DISH!
Sorry, guys, I tried to get hammered but all I had was a screw driver .....
ReplyDeleteI still would rather be a hammer than the nail. Don't know about stats.
ReplyDeleteAehrenkranz? Google East German flag! Aehren is some type of wheat. The top part actually!
ReplyDeleteNow,come back, and comment on your comments,or you´ll have he life expectancy of a glass hammer!
Who you gotta BANG to get a story up? 'Tis Saturday already dammit!
ReplyDeleteAnd I am talking HAMMER-kinda-BANG you perverts!!! FOR SHAME!
Sophisticated, depends, if the employee were a pharmacist, wouldn't poison be the best option?
ReplyDeletePuppy, you are a lioness. I'm of the Donkey Kong Generation and without children.
Poobah, the bad habit was putting an announcement on every post this week.
One, Quilldancer?
Icy, I would too, if I could.
Good grief, Minka. Now I see how the Emperor Penguin got its name.
Miz B, I guess I'll have to write one.
Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
ReplyDeleteGotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooohooohooohooo (any way the wind blows),
I don't wanna die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
dunno what Freddie did on this day in any years but this song doesn't leave my head. it's ok, though, good song.
Yes, indeed, Doug!! *scratch head* Poison is silent, you just watch. but well the impact of the hammer on the nasty boss's big head would leave me more thrilled. And I could do it again and again and again...
ReplyDeleteOr how about the more obscure reference to Hammer the classic rapper?
ReplyDeletePlease Hammer, don't hurt 'em.
Since this site runs so well on guest posts I wondered if you would consider perhaps offering your services to mine one day soon. Just click on the link. The post explains it all.
Only one, Doug. I really don't like the sensation of being drunk. The 22nd year of my life was pretty much spent in the bathroom on my knees. I'm not going back there....
ReplyDeleteAnd why only now am I singing Maxwell's Silver Hammer? Where was that yesterday when I needed it?
Ariel, nothing like Bohemian Rhapsody to lighten the mood.
ReplyDeleteSophisticated, I think hammers are better for torture and long, slow deaths. Or carpentry.
Janet, good to see you, friend. Can't touch that.
Sounds like senior year to me, Quilly. I don't know. He just shows up when you least expect him.
Also Hammered, adj. Drunk
ReplyDeleteMany residents of the Netherworld are often Hammered.