Word of the Day

[carverofchoice]

@peepeep

I’m enamored of the mess

You call Chaos a mess, I call it beauty unchained.

[peepeep]

Thanks my friend. That’s a good thought to sleep on.

[carverofchoice]

Yeah, it is. I’m going to go save that in my collection of quotes. I just made that phrase up in response to your statement, and I love the imagery and don’t want to forget it.

[Antonius]

@peepeep

(or finish) the story

The Frog croaked.

[peepeep]

…and the Scorpion started a hedge fund!

The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap)

Three, six, nine, the goose drank wine
The monkey chewed tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat

[peepeep]

animality

[peepeep]

carnality

[peepeep]

concision

[peepeep]

kerfuffle

[carverofchoice]

You know, usually when places give a word of the day, they include the relevant definition(s) as well as an example of using it in a sentence.

[Crease]

Nonconformist

[peepeep]

@carverofchoice

…usually when places give a word of the day…

This is more syncopated, last four go

Clap - Pat - Clap - Slap †

Ya dig?

[peepeep]

And the Cap-N is you being your usual perverse self, carbuncle…

[peepeep]

sop †

Eg

I’m sure it can be explained in a short paragraph (or less) but (to my knowledge) no Data Man resident is capable of such masterful concision.

[peepeep]

stop everything!

to bring things to a screeching halt a national day of thinking about what just happened without five more events being piled on top

aka, productive pause, productive omission (of new information), you name it

to ponder to wonder to sleep on it

Frog Lick Cinema!

Long pause Daddy   Freedom is the capacity to pause in the face of stimuli from many directions at once and, in this pause, to throw one’s weight toward this response rather than that one. -Rollo May Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sUwRiIncKU [The Princess Bride (11/12) Movie CLIP - My Name Is Inigo Montoya (1987) HD]

[peepeep]

to turn one every which way

but loose

[Crease]

Right turn, Clyde.

[Antonius]

Clyde had a mean right

[carverofchoice]

@peepeep

Scorpion asks frog for a ride across the river. Frog says yeah right you’re a scorpion you’re just going to sting me. Scorpion says no not this time…

By memory only, amend and extend (or finish) the story. Anyone.

@carverofchoice

…then the frog trusts it and agrees, then the scorpion stings peepeep anyway and Peep croaks out “Why would you do that, now we’re both going to drown” and the scorpion says something about “You knew what I was, I can’t help it, it’s in my nature and I can’t change” blah, blah, blah, thus used to claim that some people and creatures can’t change their “inherent nature” even if it’s their own downfall.

Bah…rubbish

So, I just learned something else that makes this whole story a bunch of rubbish: scorpions can hold their breath underwater for 6 days. That’s way more than enough for it to crawl along the riverbed to get out or wait until it bumps into some rocks or something on the side of the river depending on how strong the current is. 6 days is a long time and they have a tough exoskeleton as armor protection.

In other words, the frog should just tell the scorpion to cross by itself slowly at the bottom of the riverbed. It has six full days to figure it out before it needs a new breath.

[peepeep]

It’s a parable. You can’t just rewrite the Bible.