Just chillin'

One for the Banbury Wood Massive

So bedraggled the tramps took me for one of their own

It was raining when I walked home last night. I had to adopt a Python-esque walk to avoid losing my flip flops (slip slops might be more accurate). I would have gone barefoot but the rains had caused flash floods which were filling the streets with scum. Woe is me.

Willy Ronis

took this picture of his son Vincent, of which I am very fond. That is all.<sup>1

1</sup> Except to add that the picture is called "Le Petit Parisien", and was taken in 1952.

war's gay

A-ha, now this is one of the things the Web does best: utterly pointless, but entirely engrossing. It's a thing which ranks the 86,000 most frequently-used English words in order of commonality. Muchos fun can be had trying to find particularly fine juxtapositions -- so I looked up "gay" (no surprise there) and discovered it is preceded by "wars". Stick in a spare apostrophe (let's face it, the world is littered with them) and you get a concise yet deep adage. Embolden the second word and you even get a nice playground overtone to it. Marvellous. Let's see what else I can come up with ...
... "bollocks" and "calorie" seem fairly well suited to one another ...
... potential band names are rife :: on TOTP tonight, the peterborough monkey treasures! ...
... there's even some new stuff for the politicians -- "Arse-Fading Bullets Directive" anyone? ...
... parents might like "Mum Aid: Completely Cash. Flat Fifty." ...
... topically, Oxford is next to Animals (closely followed by Culture) ...

Unfortunately, GayLord is not currently in the archive. For shame; the archive is calculated from the contents of the British National Corpus, "a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent an accurate cross-section of current English usage". I don't see how an accurate cross-section of current English usage can possibly fail to incorporate the word "gaylord". Tsk.

Incidentally, the word "tsk" is included, and is happily situated next to "malingering". I feel these are just the kinds of words that are going to get on.

"Tsk" is preceded by the bizarre "squinches", from the verb "to squeeze, twist or draw together". Well I never.

And so forth ad infinitum! Go play!