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[kjpepper]

i want to give birkwelch that special disease that causes a cute "ping!" noise whenever the laidees go to touch the testiclades. (cookies to anyone besides morlock who gets the reference.) Or yaws. Or botulism. Or some nice yummy necrotizing fasciitis or something. Not so much on my behalf (I don't wish yaws on people I'm mad at for direct offenses) but on sunny's. He's being a git. Plus it gives me an excuse to talk about necrotizing fasciitis in my journal.

I did have a good evening last night. Spent the first half of it having some quality cuddle, computer and kickthecatsout time with the boy (even though there's only one cat over there). sundart called me at around 9:30, though, supremely upset... long story short, the boy and I ran back home and spent the rest of our evening cheering her up. And she was very cheered, and entertained, and I think we managed to be the big fat silver lining, which is always good. I'm tired though - we were all up pretty late.

Quote of the morning:
"I wish I could be more like Xena in real life. Only they would never let me wear that outfit to work." --nepenthe01

I'm kinda too groggy right now to really post much of anything else. But I really want to say necrotizing fasciitis again. It's fun. Kinda rolls trippingly off the tongue. And while it doesn't have the "wiping your ass with silk" quality of cursing in French, it has a weird, decaying charm of its own. Not to mention has four lovely iambs. :)

edit [4:28 pm]: corrected the spelling of "fasciitis" (I'd originally spelled it with 3 i's (!!!) and then copied and pasted it). And yes, those are trochees, not iambs. Or lambs. Or whatever they look like. (thanks, beatfag!)

Comments

[beatgoddess.livejournal.com]

Please don't let me burst your bubble; necrotizing fasciitis only has two i's together in the middle, not three. xo

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

oops. it's kinda hard to tell if you have 2 or three i's in arial. kinda like "iambs" looks like "lambs," heh?

still rolls trippingly off the tongue though. And now you know why I was asking how to spell "yaws" last night. ;)

[beatgoddess.livejournal.com]

Arial's like eyebleedingly hard to read. Oh, that's funny - in my head, even, there's no 'r' sound in 'hard.' *laugh*

I can't imagine why you just didn't tell me the reason at the time, but yes, now I know why you needed to spell yaws.

*withholding nerd comments on proper scansion* xo

[beatgoddess.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAA!!! I can't take it anymore! I tried to hold back...

Those are trochees, not iambs.

Iambs are feet that have one unstressed and one stressed syllable, like "my cock." Trochees are feet that have one stressed and one unstressed syllable, like "cockface."

*hides*

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

s'ok, if you hadn't corrected me, I'm sure gossamer_gull would have. (right, dear?) This is why it's good to have poetry nerds around.

Wheel o' maladies

[birkwelch.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's just what I always wanted. Well, maybe not botulism. But necrotizing fasciitis... well, like you said, it just sounds cool.

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