Thursday October 26, 2006 23
Quote:
“Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.”
Yes Molly Yes
Last night while scanning the subject lines of spam mail for comical failures of the English lanuage (such as “ppenis”), I accidentally referred to spam mail as “sperm mail” (a more accurate term). One of the subject lines caught my attention because it failed to mention mortgages, natural enhancements, or prescription drugs. For a brief moment I feared the god that is Google’s Spam Filter had failed. If true, the next thing to go would be gravity. Then I read the e-mail, one of the strangest things I’ve ever read. But you don’t have to take my word for it…
“The race that one has started in, said he. Ride on. Smaller than the Crocodile Book, which is in rather a dilapidated I thank you, sir, said Mr. Littimer, it has been better made. Multitude of striking clocks, when I was rather surprised to see he to me; but we was company for one another, too, along the dusty understood and appreciated for the first time. I wish Mr. Micawber twinge, and he disclosed how she had a little girl, who, early Yes, yes, I know, said Traddles…”
Since the words were spelled right I concluded that a lexicographer puked in my inbox. He must have been binge drinking because the e-mail is seven times longer than anyone’s attention span. Or he was channeling the spirit of James Joyce, author of “Ulysses” and master of “stream of conscious writing”, which is a technique where poor writing magically transforms into a potential source of topics for doctoral theses. The literary equivalent of giving birth to a unicorn. It makes English majors giddy and gives the rest of us migraines.
The e-mail lead to the birth of two new phrases/words: Molly Bloomed or Joyced. They both mean to vomit in a literary sense. “I got drunk and Molly Bloomed an e-mail to my ex-girlfriend” or “Last night, he Joyced my inbox.” The latter sounds dirtier than I originally intended.
Ecoli Whitney: Inventor of the Cotton Gin and Tonic
The title has nothing to do with the following, except that I liked it. For those who are historians and pathologists, the title was certainly exhilarating and enthralling. You’re welcome (I am a man of entertainment).
For dinner tonight I had two corn dogs (with mustard) and champagne (I am a man of class too). Recently I invented wingerale, a drink that occurs when you forget there is wine left in your glass and you pour in gingerale (i am the Edison of drinks). I drank it because I didn’t want to waste either ingredient. It tasted okay.
To the surprise of some and the relief of others I graduate this spring with a degree in University Studies (i am a man of education). This degree means I’ve paid enough money to receive a degree, but I’ve not taken the right courses to receive a real degree. It is the consolation prize “take home version of the game” so to speak.
My posts start out as a large mass of ideas that I polish and blend together. Often the original version of a post is two or three times longer than the finished post. Because of this I think my posts are short to medium in length, whereas readers find them long or longer. Therefore I am attempting to limit posts to 450 words (roughly). Perhaps more people will read the entire posts, and I should be more consistent with posts (smaller posts more often instead of longer posts at large intervals).
Stay Classy Whale’s Vagina.
