4/25/04 ps -- the march in DC today was GODLIKE.... okay, as you were
Okay, so moving along to a new Journal, but look in the last couple if you haven't for the dope on Tryst's Rockbot and Deerhoof!
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Now, more Douglas Adams definitions for your weekend fun:
BLITHBURY (n.) A look someone gives you by which you become aware that they're much too drunk to have understood anything you've said to them in the last twenty minutes.
CLUNES (pl.n.) People who just won't go.
DORRIDGE (n.) Technical term for one of the lame excuses written in very small print on the side of packets of food or washing powder to explain why there's hardly anything inside. Examples include 'Contents may have settled in transit' and 'To keep each biscuit fresh they have been individually wrapped in silver paper and cellophane and separated with corrugated lining, a cardboard flap, and heavy industrial tires'.
DROITWICH (n.) A street dance. The two partners approach from opposite directions and try politely to get out of each other's way. They step to the left, step to the right, apologize, step to the left again, apologize again, bump into each other and repeat as often as unnecessary.
EPSOM (n.) An entry in a diary (such as a date or a set of initials) or a name and address in your address book, which you haven't the faintest idea what it's doing there.
FROLESWORTH (n.) Measure. The minimum time it is necessary to spend frowning in deep concentration at each picture in an art gallery in order that everyone else doesn't think you've a complete moron.
GLENTIES (pl.n.) Series of small steps by which someone who has made a serious tactical error in a conversion or argument moves from complete disagreement to wholehearted agreement.
GLORORUM (n.) One who takes pleasure in informing others about their bowel movements.
HARPENDEN (n.) The coda to a phone conversion, consisting of about eight exchanges, by which people try gracefully to get off the line.
HOGGLESTON (n.) The action of overshaking a pair of dice in a cup in the mistaken belief that this will affect the eventual outcome in your favor and not irritate everyone else.
KENT (adj.) Politely determined not to help despite a violent urge to the contrary. Kent expressions are seen on the faces of people who are good at something watching someone else who can't do it at all.
NACTON (n.) The 'n with which cheap advertising copywriters replace the word 'and' (as in fish 'n chips, mix 'n match, assault 'n battery), in the mistaken belief that this is in some way chummy or endearing. (Cheech addendum - Okay, so I do this a lot)
THRUPP (vb.) To hold a ruler on one end on a desk and make the other end go bbddbbddbbrrbrrrrddrr.
WRABNESS (n.) The feeling after having tried to dry oneself with a damp towel.
these last three are familiar to everyone, Im sure:
ELY (n.) The first, tiniest inkling you get that something, somewhere, has gone terribly wrong.
WEMBLEY (n.) The hideous moment of confirmation that the disaster presaged in the ely (q.v.) has actually struck.
GOLDALMING (n.) Wonderful rush of relief on discovering that the ely (q.v.) and the wembley (q.v.) were in fact false alarms.
Okay, so moving along to a new Journal, but look in the last couple if you haven't for the dope on Tryst's Rockbot and Deerhoof!
-- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- -
Now, more Douglas Adams definitions for your weekend fun:
BLITHBURY (n.) A look someone gives you by which you become aware that they're much too drunk to have understood anything you've said to them in the last twenty minutes.
CLUNES (pl.n.) People who just won't go.
DORRIDGE (n.) Technical term for one of the lame excuses written in very small print on the side of packets of food or washing powder to explain why there's hardly anything inside. Examples include 'Contents may have settled in transit' and 'To keep each biscuit fresh they have been individually wrapped in silver paper and cellophane and separated with corrugated lining, a cardboard flap, and heavy industrial tires'.
DROITWICH (n.) A street dance. The two partners approach from opposite directions and try politely to get out of each other's way. They step to the left, step to the right, apologize, step to the left again, apologize again, bump into each other and repeat as often as unnecessary.
EPSOM (n.) An entry in a diary (such as a date or a set of initials) or a name and address in your address book, which you haven't the faintest idea what it's doing there.
FROLESWORTH (n.) Measure. The minimum time it is necessary to spend frowning in deep concentration at each picture in an art gallery in order that everyone else doesn't think you've a complete moron.
GLENTIES (pl.n.) Series of small steps by which someone who has made a serious tactical error in a conversion or argument moves from complete disagreement to wholehearted agreement.
GLORORUM (n.) One who takes pleasure in informing others about their bowel movements.
HARPENDEN (n.) The coda to a phone conversion, consisting of about eight exchanges, by which people try gracefully to get off the line.
HOGGLESTON (n.) The action of overshaking a pair of dice in a cup in the mistaken belief that this will affect the eventual outcome in your favor and not irritate everyone else.
KENT (adj.) Politely determined not to help despite a violent urge to the contrary. Kent expressions are seen on the faces of people who are good at something watching someone else who can't do it at all.
NACTON (n.) The 'n with which cheap advertising copywriters replace the word 'and' (as in fish 'n chips, mix 'n match, assault 'n battery), in the mistaken belief that this is in some way chummy or endearing. (Cheech addendum - Okay, so I do this a lot)
THRUPP (vb.) To hold a ruler on one end on a desk and make the other end go bbddbbddbbrrbrrrrddrr.
WRABNESS (n.) The feeling after having tried to dry oneself with a damp towel.
these last three are familiar to everyone, Im sure:
ELY (n.) The first, tiniest inkling you get that something, somewhere, has gone terribly wrong.
WEMBLEY (n.) The hideous moment of confirmation that the disaster presaged in the ely (q.v.) has actually struck.
GOLDALMING (n.) Wonderful rush of relief on discovering that the ely (q.v.) and the wembley (q.v.) were in fact false alarms.
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clara:
Take any pictures?
sugarfish:
So I went out and bought myself Milkman, and gave you some kudos in my journal. Ain't you something? And man... I wish Adams' dictionary had a definition for "symotatheic." (Sorry, had to.) You know, I've heard of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary. Now I'm beginning to think I should get a copy.