There's a red one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of
ticky-tacky, And they all look just the same."
30 hours with team slime mold: field notes from the lumpy, yellow side of biodiversity
This next type of hyphenated word includes several parts of speech and consists of silly-sounding, rhyming pairs, most often with a long-e ending, like whoopsy-daisy, hootchie-kootchie, creepy-crawly, goody-goody, wishy-washy, willy-nilly,
ticky-tacky, tootsy-wootsy, namby-pamby, teenie-weenie, freaky-deaky, lovey-dopey, palsy-walsy, hanky-panky, heebie-jeebies, wowee-zowee, itty-bitty, topsy-turvy, hokey-pokey, and honey-baby.
Like a hyphen between troubled words
People have had a deep-seated fear of this spread of identikit places for some time--even Pete Seeger's song about 'little boxes made of
ticky-tacky' expressed some of it even in the 1960s--but until now the professionals dismissed such timidity as backward.
A sense of wabi-sabi and the return of authentic places: we need to rediscover the skills necessary to create places that are human in scale and that people innately recognise as 'authentic'--places that can retain people, history, and tradition
The young Prince Rogers Nelson was bored with r&b production cliches--he had a particular aversion to horns--and in response, crafted his signature sound, the jagged keyboard-propelled funk of early hits like "I Wanna Be Your Lover," "Controversy" and "1999." These stark, irrepressibly danceable songs gave a virile edge to
ticky-tacky synthesizer pop and established Prince's preference for spartan arrangements--and it is that eerie minimalism, the sound of something stripped out, that even today strikes the ear with such electric force.
His majesty
All the wonderfully
ticky-tacky tourist attractions we visited, the beach cabanas on the barrier islands, the hurricanes we waited out in the central-most room of the house.
Jai alai forever: frontons may come and go, but Florida's fast-moving sport still endures
Now that the
ticky-tacky has been removed, the beauty of this last remaining example of quality early Victorian railway architecture, with its lovely ornate brickwork, can be clearly seen.
LETTERS: your views
The latest in scientific social conditioning, now applied to children by The Corporation, which raises most of them because six-job-two-parent families are busy with their upward
ticky-tacky mobility which just keeps looping anyway and never goes up at all?"
A clone of your own
Again, this is
ticky-tacky material but it became one of the very few pieces the Post ran on the lieutenant governor contest.
Does negative campaigning energize the press?
Too many people crammed into one corner of our country, paying silly prices for
ticky-tacky homes within commuting distance, travelling on roads and railways that can't cope.
Tom Brown The Voice Of Authority; Are you calling me aggressive?
Pacheco added: "I sat through the Las Vegas hearing and it was six hours of
ticky-tacky, hair-splitting sheer nonsense.
Fight doc fears a Tyson freak-out
Then again, as a little kid I lived in a pale green
ticky-tacky house under the test-flight path of Northrop's Flying Wings.
John Wesley
The reason is that Mr Walsh cannot even feign interest in breeze-block construction, box shapes, "
ticky-tacky" posing as quality without an interesting corner in sight.
Emphasis on character
As we approach the sprawling
ticky-tacky housing developments pushing north from Fort Collins toward our place, my dad begins to worry.
How preservation pays
With the help of his designers and the clever choreography of Rob Marshall, the director celebrates Eisenhower's America from green stamps to soap-on-a-rope, from pastel houses made of
ticky-tacky to cocktail-napkin innuendoes.
I have often walked...
The home market has become very competitive, especially at the high end, and builders can no longer put up little boxes made of
ticky-tacky and expect to find buyers.
Custom homes go high-tech