Wednesday, 21 November 2012
InDefinition - 58
forebore, vb. to be so renownedly dull that folk are comatose before you even get going.
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
InDefinition - 57
'nuff sell, n. circumstance in which the merits of the thing are either immediately apparent or they're not.
Notes on a Tuesday (splendid etymology)
Dienstag - From Middle Low German dingesdach, the day of the ding (“the thing, a council assembly”).- Wiktionary.org
['S like something out of The Thick of It. 'Can you make it to my expenses-wangling party on Tuesday, Tony?' 'No, sorry - I've got that thing, haven't I.']
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Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Monday, 12 November 2012
On a career in creative insanity
I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that’s fine. I don’t do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can’t not do it.
- Maurice Sendak, in The Believer
Sunday, 11 November 2012
Friday, 9 November 2012
Keystroke twins - 17 / Squaddie banter VI
Army
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* this one, I confess, may have slightly more resonance(s) for those who are actually in the Army... All readers, though, may delight in the peculiarly military quality of the word's etymology and/or definition, as provided by UrbanDictionary.com!
crow*
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* this one, I confess, may have slightly more resonance(s) for those who are actually in the Army... All readers, though, may delight in the peculiarly military quality of the word's etymology and/or definition, as provided by UrbanDictionary.com!
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