I like taking people at their word and figuring out how they have made less of a mistake. On this one, they have quite obviously started ironing the waffles to take out the pleats. I hope the customers don't mind.
I just myspaced the following quote to a friend and thought it might delight you as well. It's from Erasmus' Praise of Folly. It regards schoolmasters:
"Then there's this further type of pleasure. Whenever one of them [the schoolmasters] digs out of some mouldy manuscript the name of Anchises' mother or some trivial word the ordinary man doesn't know, such as neatherd, tergiversator, cutpurse, or if anyone unearths a scrap of old stone with a fragmentary inscription, O Jupiter, what a triumph! What rejoicing, what eulogies! They might have conquered Africa or captured Babylon."
Isn't that hilarious? Ah, and what reverberation it finds within my little heart. O Jupiter, indeed.
Tergiversate's a fun one. I think it might have been a word-of-the-day once, but I'd let it fall to the wayside.
I like taking people at their word and figuring out how they have made less of a mistake. On this one, they have quite obviously started ironing the waffles to take out the pleats. I hope the customers don't mind.
Oh man,
ReplyDeleteMy hands seriously hit the floor just now, Daniel, in synchrony with a most effervescing, "haaaa."
That was wonderful. What a lovely, lively ending to my day.
Where did you find such a prize?
Nice pic!
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Buffy, I found such a prize at Ivanna Cone.
ReplyDeletew, thank you for coming and thank you for your persistence. (this is my third try too).
I took a pic just for you at the fair.
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Daniel,
ReplyDeleteI just myspaced the following quote to a friend and thought it might delight you as well. It's from Erasmus' Praise of Folly. It regards schoolmasters:
"Then there's this further type of pleasure. Whenever one of them [the schoolmasters] digs out of some mouldy manuscript the name of Anchises' mother or some trivial word the ordinary man doesn't know, such as neatherd, tergiversator, cutpurse, or if anyone unearths a scrap of old stone with a fragmentary inscription, O Jupiter, what a triumph! What rejoicing, what eulogies! They might have conquered Africa or captured Babylon."
Isn't that hilarious? Ah, and what reverberation it finds within my little heart. O Jupiter, indeed.
Tergiversate's a fun one. I think it might have been a word-of-the-day once, but I'd let it fall to the wayside.