An etymological and grammatical examination of the ‘F-word’
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April 5th, 2007
A great stupid joke
The Seven Dwarfs knock on the door of a convent. Mother Superior answers and Doc asks her if there are any 3 foot nuns inside. Mother Superior gives him a funny look and says “No.”
There is much whispering amongst the dwarfs and then Happy asks her if there are any 3 foot nuns in the country. Mother Superior answers no.
Grumpy politely asks her if there are any 3 foot nuns on the continent. The Mother Superior assures him that there are no 3 foot nuns on the continent.
Sleepy starts to ask a question and Mother Superior yells “NO! THERE ARE NO 3 FOOT NUNS ON THE PLANET. THERE ARE NO THREE FOOT NUNS ANYWHERE! NEVER HAVE BEEN ANY….EVER!”
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Ruminations of a Verbivore ~ Terry Pratchett
The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can’t have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles — kingons, or possibly queons — that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.
from his book Mort
In MY Mind
I don’t know what Jeff is talking about Cryptograms for. Aren’t those sweet crackers for mummies? Or maybe witches. No, that would be Hexagrams. Maybe Hexagrams are only for chinese witches. Tetragrams are for fish. Or maybe those are Teddy Grams. I wonder if that’s the unit of measure Roosevelt proposed?
Oh well, thanks to those stalwart readers that are putting up with this silliness.
Isn’t stalwart something like Compound W? Or maybe just something you get at a really dirty flea market.
Okay, I’ll stop now.
Tune in tomorrow. Some bat-time some bat-channel.
