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But in A SONG IS BORN, the encyclopedia is one of music, and the professors are motivated to go out in the world when they discover they've missed the jazz revolution; in BALL OF FIRE, it's a regular encyclopedia, and their English professor is horrified to discover his entry on slang has been jossed by reality.
movies: BALL OF FIRE and A SONG IS BORN hradzka 2010
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But in A SONG IS BORN, the encyclopedia is one of music, and the professors are motivated to go out in the world when they discover they've missed the jazz revolution; in BALL OF FIRE, it's a regular encyclopedia, and their English professor is horrified to discover his entry on slang has been jossed by reality.
movies: BALL OF FIRE and A SONG IS BORN hradzka 2010
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So I've had this plot bunny for ages, and I finally realised I'm never going to finish it to my satisfaction, at least not before it gets jossed by this show or this movie.
November 16th, 2005 westerfeld_blog 2005
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Sometimes the dioramas get jossed* by you if you, for instance, decide to decorate that little room on the second floor.
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*jossed = to have a story, which followed canon, become non-canonical by events in a new episode.
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Author’s Notes: So clearly I got jossed within the first ten seconds of “Conversion.”
Atlantis fic: Contagious (deleted scenes from Alpha Centauri) hth_the_first 2005
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