March 2006
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Awesome Movie Review: Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride is an odd little movie. It’s a musical, which I didn’t expect. There was once a time when I would have been aware of such things. Back when I was “with it” or “down” with “the scene.” But those days are long gone. I thought about going to see a movie last week and when I looked at the listings, I had no clue what half the movies were. Did you know there’s some sort of animated movie with Andy Dick, Putty/The Tick and Xzibit? I didn’t. That’s how out of the current loop I am.
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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