Up Front: A Short Word Before We Begin
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Sorry pedants, the correct answer is ...
Now I've got that running through my head... does it have words? The theme to Bonanza does.
No it doesn't, but feel free to sing anyway ... -
His version of 'Proud Mary' has to be heard to be believed. Just don't listen to it stoned: you'll die laughing.
Surely it cannot be as bad as Shatner's spoken rendition of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Surely.
But I can't believe (and I think I speak for Jolisa here, too) that you're not going to exploit your children for cheap entertainment purposes. What sort of a writer are you?
A big lie-y liar. After all, surely every thirteen year old boy needs to be able to come home from school and say 'Muuuum, why'd you tell everybody about that time I said women couldn't play cricket because their breasts would get in the way?'.
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The beauteous and erudite Emma said
Thank you Judi. You can be my fangirl if you like, the position's vacant.
Hee! But you'll have to see if David is willing to share ;-)
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But you'll have to see if David is willing to share ;-)
WTF - you mean Emma's not a lesbian midget? I'm outta here you big teasing lie-y liar ...
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Where does that leave someone like me, who's been both a mathematician and a literary critic, and who thinks that callipygean is one of the most beautiful and underused words in the English language? What part of my brain had to get emptied out to make way for both?
Oh, that's right. Morals.
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callipygean is one of the most beautiful and underused words in the English language
Underused? Let's face it, there aren't really that many truly beautiful arses around, nor are there many circumstances where it's polite for your admiration to be conveyed to another party.
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I shall, however, be sticking with the New Wave PA determination not to endlessly bitch about my health. .....
Nor will I be pimping my children for column material.None taken.
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Compared to the other phrases that might be used in such (perhaps rather too rare) circumstances, I consider it the most mellifluous, erudite and flattering alternative. Or perhaps one could try Duchamp's "L.H.O.O.Q.", although the occasions when such intellectual wankery would be both understood and appreciated are vanishingly rare.
The other part of my brain to be squeezed out must have been the part that remembered the preferred spelling of "callipygian".
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"You're looking particularly callipygeous today, love."
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Callipygian? Sir Mix-A-Lot said it best: 'my anaconda don't want none unless you've got buns hon!'
Yay, Emma. Since I seem to agree with everything she says, it's almost like *I* have a PA blog. But without all that time-consuming 'having to write posts' stuff.
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Welcome to your blog Emma, although welcoming does seem strange as I've been reading your comments in recent posts... Looking forward to reading another work-lover...
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I once watched two engineering students fail to open the easy-peel wrapper on a block of cheese.
You literary types will appreciate this: my electrical engineer flatmate once turned to me while that Trojan Horse cold medicine ad was playing and said "I don't get it. What's the joke?"
I explained that it was referring to the myth of the Trojan Horse.
"Myth? I thought that was just a name for a kind of computer virus."
This is also the flatmate whose solution to repeatedly burning his toast because he'd forgotten to check the setting was to permanently hot-glue the knob to the lowest setting. He's working on his PhD. Frankly, I'm kind of afraid.
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who thinks that callipygean is one of the most beautiful and underused words in the English language
For years, callipygean was my favourite obscure word. Then a few weeks ago it hit Digg, and I had to give it up, because I am a snob. I'm now left with zenzizenzizenzic and opisthenar.
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WTF - you mean Emma's not a lesbian midget? I'm outta here you big teasing lie-y liar ...
Sorry. But honestly, with the vast buffet of humanity laid out before me, I'm going to voluntarily restrict myself to only dining from one side? I don't think so.
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Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome
It has a name? I thought it was just geek-lag.
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But honestly, with the vast buffet of humanity laid out before me
that buffet is obviously laid out on many small tables over a large space, otherwise you'd:
a. not be able to reach the centrepiece
b. take forever to get all the way round past the salads and the cold meats to the pavlova. -
I'm now left with zenzizenzizenzic and opisthenar.
Try gibigiana.
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3410,
I am not Keith.
I thought you were going to do "Which Rolling Stone are you?"
Congrats on your new blog.
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BTW, even I wasn't anticipating lowering the bar this far this fast.
And yet .. you found a way.
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that buffet is obviously laid out on many small tables over a large space, otherwise you'd:
a. not be able to reach the centrepieceIt's much easier to reach the centrepiece if you're prepared to just crawl right across the table.
And yet .. you found a way.
I had help, in my defence. And anyway, you can talk.
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Back to the word conversation, I have just been reminded of a brief but intense argument I had with Amy last night:
To use the search engine Google to find something is "googling" or Google-ing"? -
To use the search engine Google to find something is "googling" or Google-ing"?
Canoodle - canoodling
ergo
Google - googling
I am so double-checking this for incidences of Muphry's Law.
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Surely it cannot be as bad as Shatner's spoken rendition of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Surely.
Well, Shatner acts, or rather over-acts, his way through Lucy..
" somebody calls you
You answer [puts on yawning voice] qui-i-ite slooowly...
[urgent]
"A Girl!!
With Kaliedescope Eyes!"Nimroy under-acts, he sounds like he's on mogoadon.
I have both on a home made compilation CD - a double CD, I might add - I've called 'The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Cheesy'.
And I really need to get out more.
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Canoodle - canoodling
ergo
Google - googling
See now I agree, but my beloved's argument is that Google is a concrete noun. So it'd be more like Xerox to Xerox-ing.
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Are you guys discussing spelling or pronunciation?
I would suggest that however you choose to spell them... the double-vowel sound should be retained... so they rhyme with one another....
google rhymes with bugle and feudal.... the oo sound from mood.
googling looks like it might use the shorter oo sound from hood?
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