Posted in Cats, Numbered Lists, Photo entries, Utter Silliness, Words I Like, videos on January 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
1. Confession time! (oh, this is going to be fun!) I sometimes confuse or conflate various celebrities or famous people, because I don’t follow their doings closely and maybe they look kind of alike, or have similar names. For example, I can’t ever keep David Duchovny & George Clooney straight in [...]
Posted in Cats, Distractions, Imports from old blogs, Utter Silliness, Words I Like on March 14, 2006 | No Comments »
My cat has a coat of arms.
Words cannot describe how much this amuses me. The Ancient Arms of Griswald!
Frankly, if I were designing a coat of arms for Griswald, a large, plumy tail would have to feature into it somewhere.
People frequently ask me if Griswald was named after the family featured in the National Lampoon [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Words I Like on October 14, 2004 | No Comments »
I love words and I love the English language. Etymology is a joy to me, and the quirks and pecularities of English grammar are like a compelling puzzle to me. Just as well, considering I devoted six years of my life to acquiring two degrees which basically hinge upon my being eloquently full [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Utter Silliness, Words I Like, tagged AlphaBytes on June 22, 2004 | No Comments »
“O” is for “Opossum” (a critter representation in the Another letter of the Alphabytes).
North America’s only marsupial is representing the letter “O” in this Alphabytes entry.
Kansas City has a pretty fair opossum population scuttling around its alleys and dumpsters. In our old neighborhood, one frequently holed up in the storm drain beside where we [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Utter Silliness, Words I Like, tagged AlphaBytes on June 11, 2004 | No Comments »
“L” is for “Lalochezia”
This entry was brought to you by Alphabytes and the letter “L.”
Lalochezia is my new favorite word. It means “swearing to relive stress.” I do this all the time, and I had no idea it had a formal, not to mention euphonious term. Lalochezia! If you didn’t click the [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Words I Like, tagged AlphaBytes on June 3, 2004 | No Comments »
The Word of the Day is “crud.”
Already with the digressions. Does anyone remember “Pee Wee’s Playhouse”? Terribly annoying kiddie show featuring Don-Knotts look-a-like nebbish Pee Wee Herman, a load of anthropomorphic furniture, and a lot of irritating noises? Do you remember how he would declare a Word of the Day at the [...]
Posted in Food & Snacks, Imports from old blogs, Words I Like on May 28, 2004 | No Comments »
I woke up this morning alternately thinking “ratatouille” and “gulch.”
Gulch is explainable. In my friend Rob’s space-opera-esque D&D game, our party recently rescued a kidnapped child who was being held hostage in an old mission in a mining town called Yuri’s Gulch. At one point during the game, we were selling supplies to [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Words I Like on May 26, 2004 | No Comments »
in·e·luc·ta·ble ( ihn ee-luh k tuh -b l)
adj.
Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable: “Those war plans rested on a belief in the ineluctable superiority of the offense over the defense” (Jack Beatty).
[Latin in luct bilis : in-, not; see in-1 + luct bilis, penetrable (from luct r , to [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Words I Like on May 25, 2004 | No Comments »
o·nan·ism (oh nuh -nih zih m)
n.
1. Masturbation.
2. Coitus interruptus.
[After Onan, son of Judah (Genesis 38:9).]
Dunno if you ever get a word stuck in your head, but I do, frequently. Last night, for positively no good reason, “onanistic” came from the forefront of my subconsciousness, and there it has bobbed and drifted ever since. [...]
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