Alright Space Ponys, saddle up and head over to http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/.
That's Barb's blog and she just won a Gianormous award for her spiffy food blogging.
Yes, this is the only person I will work with in a kitchen and not threaten. So, now you have a frame of refrence.
Monday, January 23, 2006
Friday, January 20, 2006
A few things some of them /quite/ wierd
I saw a bee today. A BEE!?!? In January? WTF, Gus?
Okay, so another one of those just about to fall asleep and the mind begins to flounder a bit in its own juices. I was considering the word discombobulate. I figured the root of the word must be combobulate. Add in to this, my spellchecker understands discombobulate, but not combobulate.
So here is what I was able to find out.
Combobulate seems to be a contraction of the Latin combo "to drink up or suck in" and the word late"broadly, widely, extensively". So therefore we can define combobulate as "to suck widely". This would make clear our fascination with things being discombobulated, or literally "to the opposite of suck widely", or to not suck. (From Latin dis-, apart, asunder.)
Then I began to put different prefixes on the word to give it a little wider range of usage. Consider
exocombobulate: to suck widely outside
endocombobulate: to suck in widely
antecombobulate: before sucking widely
autocombobulate: to broadly suck automatically
bicombobulate: to suck two things extensively
circumcombobulate: to suck widely around something
contracombobulate: to blow
miscombobulate: to sucky very badly
semicombobulate: to half suck widely
telecombobulate: to suck widely over a distance
ultracombobulate: to extremely suck extensively
unicombobulate: to suck broadly one single item
It is unfortunate that all this research may be for not as I do not see the majority of these words ever being used in conversation.
Oh well, let your minds run amuck.
Amuck, amuck, amuck, amuck, amuck, amuck, thack
Till next time,
Be mindful and awake
Okay, so another one of those just about to fall asleep and the mind begins to flounder a bit in its own juices. I was considering the word discombobulate. I figured the root of the word must be combobulate. Add in to this, my spellchecker understands discombobulate, but not combobulate.
So here is what I was able to find out.
Combobulate seems to be a contraction of the Latin combo "to drink up or suck in" and the word late"broadly, widely, extensively". So therefore we can define combobulate as "to suck widely". This would make clear our fascination with things being discombobulated, or literally "to the opposite of suck widely", or to not suck. (From Latin dis-, apart, asunder.)
Then I began to put different prefixes on the word to give it a little wider range of usage. Consider
exocombobulate: to suck widely outside
endocombobulate: to suck in widely
antecombobulate: before sucking widely
autocombobulate: to broadly suck automatically
bicombobulate: to suck two things extensively
circumcombobulate: to suck widely around something
contracombobulate: to blow
miscombobulate: to sucky very badly
semicombobulate: to half suck widely
telecombobulate: to suck widely over a distance
ultracombobulate: to extremely suck extensively
unicombobulate: to suck broadly one single item
It is unfortunate that all this research may be for not as I do not see the majority of these words ever being used in conversation.
Oh well, let your minds run amuck.
Amuck, amuck, amuck, amuck, amuck, amuck, thack
Till next time,
Be mindful and awake
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