A Disquisition On Hyphens

2020-04-11T16:02:00Z

Match 1.3 - 1961-1963: Do you remember when things were really hummin’

Mr. Acker Bilk! https://t.co/x2DRAF0foR
Chubby Checker! https://t.co/fm0El5a4CU
Little Eva! https://t.co/pTTPfMdnbG
The Beatles! https://t.co/bzecth2mP9
— Tom Ewing (@tomewing) April 11, 2020

The Loco-motion will always be downgraded for its superfluous hyphen (also the reason why Spider-Man will never be a top tier hero in my book)
— Peter Baran (@pb14) April 11, 2020

It was a different time
— αℓαη тяєωαятнα ✍︎ (@alantrewartha) April 11, 2020

"I was glad I had seen the cars in this natural setting, which was, after all, a kind of Plato's Republic for teen-agers."
--Tom Wolfe, "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby," Esquire, 1963
— Frank Kogan (@koganbot) April 11, 2020

The Cars That Go Varoom?
— Tom Ewing (@tomewing) April 11, 2020

We're Tigra and Bunny, and we like Varoom!
— Frank Kogan (@koganbot) April 11, 2020

Also:

Match 1.3 - 1961-1963: Do you remember when things were really hummin’

Mr. Acker Bilk! https://t.co/x2DRAF0foR
Chubby Checker! https://t.co/fm0El5a4CU
Little Eva! https://t.co/pTTPfMdnbG
The Beatles! https://t.co/bzecth2mP9
— Tom Ewing (@tomewing) April 11, 2020

At age 10 I found the title "Please Please Me" tremendously disturbing; even when I finally figured out the verb things, it still seemed like an irritating unwanted disturbance, like the Beatles themselves.
— Frank Kogan (@koganbot) April 11, 2020

And:

Match 1.4: ‘63 into ‘64: I felt so happy I almost cried

The Crystals! https://t.co/96LESIuOJD
Millie! https://t.co/B2SyAJkQB9
The Kinks! https://t.co/Oyatd2qNXP
The Four Seasons! https://t.co/BqLfRfbm22
— Tom Ewing (@tomewing) April 11, 2020

And then eight years later when I became a Kinks fanatic and was excavating their early recordings, my brother felt utter disdain overhearing the lyric, "The only time I feel all right is by your side."
— Frank Kogan (@koganbot) April 11, 2020

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