Jonas Söderström, an information architect in Sweden (and major Procol Harum fan), reports another snowclone:
an Xer shade of Y
He notes that a whole page on the variations in common parlance stemming from the title line of the 1967 classic "A whiter shade of pale" can be found on a Procol Harum fan site called Beyond the Pale.
Posted by Geoffrey K. Pullum at January 18, 2004 09:29 PM