I received a e-mail this week from a county road and bridge director that had gone out to those of us connected to a road construction project. The pavement has been laid and the monument boxes have been installed. The painting crew is to arrive on the 15th to paint the yellow and white stripes along the route. But.........what he actually wrote was:
"The strippers will be onsite 11/15/10."
I couldn't let that go. My return e-mail read: "Precisely when and precisely where will the strippers be onsite? Females?"
> My return e-mail read: "Precisely when and precisely where will the strippers be onsite?
Dang bud, you should have told him I have an hourly rate.
I had to laugh, from today's chronicle comments section:
"Many people confuse "flout" which means "contemptuous disregard" and "flaunt" which means "ostentatious display". Thank you for combining them into a single word. I am not sure whether flount should mean ostentatious disregard or contemptuous display, but its cromulence embiggens your post."
That is wrong on so many levels. The wife just wanted to know what I was doing on that particular website until the head shot, is still sitting over there giggling.
Any Carrollians?
I love it, these word games,
maybe it was even his intention ... I can imagine some colleagues overhere that would sent this in an internal mail.
it makes me think of the Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky" wich was presented in "through the looking glass" that had a lot of nonsense words in it.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
later in the story there was a passages where some of the words were explained ... such as
frumius
"[T]ake the two words 'fuming' and 'furious'. Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever so little towards 'fuming', you will say 'fuming-furious'; if they turn, by even a hair's breadth, towards 'furious', you will say 'furious-fuming'; but if you have the rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say 'fruminous'. "
you can read more here ... it has some good explanations too
The Jabberwock by Lewis Carroll
Surveyors and poetry? does that match sometimes?
By the way ... lewis Caroll was a genius when it came to maths,
chr.
Any Carrollians?
The amazing thing about Jaberwocky is that despite the nonsense words, it has been successfully translated into several languages. Martin Gardner's book _The Annotated Alice_ has some examples. I don't understand most of those languages (just another dumb American) but it is still fun to read and get the sense of them.
Roadhand
You are one sick puppy. I'm going to suffer nightmares after seeing that.
Roadhand
I discovered the poem by listening to an "Oliver Wakeman & Clive Nolan" Cd, 2 fantastic keyboard players. I have to admit, I'm a Nolan fan (Progressive rock with the bands Arena and Pendragon)
Their music adds an extra dimension to the poem, the kids loved it too ... the chase and the batlle are easy to imagine this way
[flash width=480 height=385] http://www.youtube.com/v/Mxnzs6LlTV4?fs=1&hl=en_US [/flash]
Sweet Dreams!
Oh, my
I just noticed there is a XXX version available. Anybody got a head on picture of Ted?
retro encabulator
One of my favorite:
Christ
Oliver sounds just like his father.
:coffee:
