Sunny and coolish.. nice day to work outside.. but I don't work inside or outside anymore.. I wish I did have enough ambition to do so.. instead I went swimming with Elaine at the CLV pool.
"Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh."
Paul Valery (The Sun)
01. Puzzling Words
I don't often do the Carroll County Times crossword puzzle because it is a wee bit easy; however, today I did, and I found 5 words of interest. I thought I might share them with you.
erysipelas = acute skin infection caused by group A streptococcus bacteria. It affects the upper layer of the skin on the legs and face. It is often accompanied by high fever and chills and malaise. It can be cured by penicillin. My grandfather had a very bad case. It may have been before penicillin was discovered. I forget.
allonym = 1. pseudonym
2. work published under a name that is not that of the author
Example: Anu Garg writes: "The Federalist Papers, a collection of 85 essays about the U.S. Constitution, was written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison in 1787 and 1788. They wrote under the name PUBLIUS, a noted Roman involved in setting up the Roman Republic."
apeak = Held in an upright/vertical position: "Oars apeak!" Nautical command, which I had never heard before. It also is related to having the anchor cable as near as possible to vertical, but without releasing the anchor.
In 1796 Charles Dibdin wrote in Nautical Philosophy =
"Thus the good we should cherish,
the bad never seek/
for death will too soon
bring each anchor apeak."
homiletics = the art of preaching or writing sermons (homilies)
I always wondered how preachers could get something new to talk about each Sunday. Well, there is a company called Homiletics Online, where preachers can have access to all kinds of sermon information for only $69.95 per year.
taal = 1. "rhythm" and the name of a famous 1999 Hindi "musical drama romance" film.
2. active Phillipine volcano on the island of Luzon.
3. Dutch word for "hippo"
4. International association of translators and interpreters.
5. Afrikaans language.
There.. don't you feel smarter?
02. Home Depot
Carroll County Times: The 2013 hacking attack on Target is said to have been "peanuts" compared to the 4 month "hack" of Home Depot, in which the hackers got information on 40 million payment cards!
03. Hurry up, I need it!
Carroll County Times: Novo Nordisk's new diet drug SAXENDA supposedly does work and the Food and Drug Administration has to decide before November if it can go on the market.
04. Kick the Bucket!
Tom Zirpoli writes about a little girl in his column today. The little girl is 9 years old, and she had a little trouble firing an Uzi and killed her instructor at the firing range. An Uzi is a submachine gun with a heavy recoil, especially for a 9-year-old. Tom says that the girl wanted to fire the gun because it was "on her bucket list."
Tom also says: "You know, when your 9-year-old tells you that shooting an Uzi is high on her "bucket list," you might want to take her in for counseling or review your family conversations at the dinner table. Children don't normally grow up knowing what an Uzi is, never mind wanting to fire one."
AMEN, TOM!
05. Thoughts about Housework
The Funny Times published some quotes about Housework that I thought you might enjoy.
a. Housework can kill you, but why take a chance. Phyllis Diller
b. Cleaning the house before your kids are grown is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller
c. You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker. Zach Galifiankis
d. Men leave their socks lying around because we can use them for oven mitts. Mike Dugan
e. Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop offs at tedium and counter-productivity. Erma Bombeck.
Hey... gotta go.. America's Got Talent is coming on!
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1 comment:
"Housework can kill you, but why take the chance"? Was that a Freudian slip, pop?
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