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Swiss Miss the Point of Minarets So it seems that the Swiss populace, desperate to show what wacky fun can be had with a true democracy, have banned the construction of minarets. I have a problem with this for two reasons. One, this is obviously an attack on Muslims, but it’s a half-assesd attack. If [...]
I Am Poor
This is not an April Fool’s Day joke. I am in desperate need of money. For those of you who don’t already know, I earn a meager wage breakdancing in the food court at the mall. I’d wager there are idiots reading this blog who make more in a week than I do in a month. Recently, it’s become very hard to make ends meet and keep this blog up and running. Blogging ain’t cheap. I pay for the hamsters that power my webserver. I pay for the zebu blood that lubricates the exercise wheels of the hamsters that power the webserver. And I pay for the feed cost of the zebus whose blood lubricates the exercise wheels of the hamsters that power my webserver. Zebus ain’t cheap. And it’s not like you can just walk into a PetSmart and buy a zebu. Sure, every other Saturday the local PetSmart has a zebu adoption day, but those people are always asking all sorts of questions.
On Diarrhœa
So I was reading about Jenny McCarthy’s epic, Shakespearean in magnitude, yet ultimately futile efforts to not crap all over the floor, when I began to contemplate the word diarrhea. It looked odd to me, spelled that way. I much prefer the fancy-lad spelling diarrhœa. Needing to know the correct spelling of diarrhœa, I consulted Volume IV (Creel-Duzepere) of the OED. What I found knocked my socks off. Or it would have, if I had been wearing socks. (I prefer sandals and socklessness.) Here’s the definition for diarrhœa:
A disorder consisting in the too frequent evacuation of too fluid fæces, sometimes attended with griping pains.
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