coney island, baby. that's just about all i can contribute to this. am at a loss...
Why? Soooo unlike our Dagmaraka!
i don't know what coneys are, to begin with. and coffee didn't kick in yet. i too am only a human!
A coney is like unto a bunny, even yet a hare or rabbit. I don't know why, possibly it is an Ozism.
Merry Andrew -- I heard you met a friend... any reporting to report???
coney island, baby...
you know that's a tom waits song, right?
Main Entry: co·ney
Pronunciation: 'kO-nE, 1 also 'k&-nE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural coneys
Etymology: Middle English conies, plural, from Old French conis, plural of conil, from Latin cuniculus
Date: 12th century
1 a : rabbit fur b (1) : RABBIT; especially : the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) (2) : PIKA c : HYRAX
2 archaic : DUPE
3 : any of several fishes; especially : a dusky black-spotted reddish-finned grouper (Epinephelus fulvus) of the tropical Atlantic
Hey, I like the archaic form! It works for Coney Island!
dupe island then. Lou Reed it was. But Tom Waits is just as duped. am using words sparsely today, for i am using them for my dissertation. yes. believe it or not, it is writing itself!
Huh. Make sure it doesn't misbehave over there in the corner. I've found dissertations to be most mischevious when left unattended.
(I am full of words, many words today. Would you like a few?)
i can use a whole bundle. give it here!
Hmm. Check the other threads. Seems I've left my toys laying about.
unanticipated redevelopment
redeployed accoutriments
managed outcome
unvarnished truism
undoubtably the most outstanding eventuality
fundamental causatum
There used to be coney catching pamphlets in Elizabethan times - detailing how poor souls were duped by elaborate tricksicals....
hmmm, unusable, although fascinating. i may use the 'undoubtedly the most outstanding eventuality' or the 'fundamental causatum' somewhere. i will sneak it in.
Apropos of certain charlatan advice givers, newly popped up, whose names shall be nameless:
Vatican vies with SciFi channel for No1 Fiction position
The Vatican declared battle on the Scifi channel this month with a barrage of fictional announcements designed to knock the US Scifi channel from the number one fiction slot.
The Vatican, head of the Catholic church, is said by analysts to be responding to surveys showing that more people in the US now watch the SciFi channel than go to Sunday mass.
"They've done some very basic market research." Bill Owlocks media analyst with Woofter Pilly partnership told BIGfib.
"It says that people tune into the Scifi channel for all the weird **** they show, you know, aliens coming up through toilets and biting peoples bottoms, that kind of stuff, and that they're tuning out from the Vatican because of the complete predictability of everything they say."
The increased creativity within the Vatican's communications is thought to tie in with the build up to the launch of VatiChan, the worldwide satellite TV channel to be launched in September 2004.
Analysts working on programming material for the channel have been warning the Vatican that pictures of the pope reading, the original plan for the 24 hour channel, just aren't going to do it for a worldwide audience, and that the Vatican needs to reinvent it's communications to provide controversy, drama and excitement.
"It's clear that that's exactly what they're doing..." Owlocks told BIGfib.
"Over the last month we've seen a real-life-type-drama of the Pope, will-he-die-or-won't-he... Local drama, in a school near you, with the Vatican fighting for Crucifix's to be put up in Italian schools, the almost biblical transformation of Mother Teresa to Saint status by the pope, astonishing defence of child abusing priests within the US catholic church and controversial communiqués from the Vatican against birth control education in American schools.
But by far the most newsworthy, and quite clearly created in response to the SciFi channels sensational stories has been last weeks Vatican claims that the HIV virus can wriggle through microscopic holes in condoms and that therefore they do not protect users in any way. That the Vatican should be urging Africans to throw away their condoms, when the continent is already devastated by the disease, is nothing short of genocide.
Something this sensational and so clearly opposed to all current scientific knowledge not to mention the personal experience of billions of users who have remained HIV negative thanks to condoms over the last twenty years can only be meant to blast VatChan to the number one fiction slot."
"As a media analyst I think it's a great strategy... It could work. Any publicity is good publicity as we say in the business."
(From the Big fib)
LOL! I already put that on Gus's thread about the death of me, and my family - the one that made me declare war.
There's an amazing amount of stuff about the pope out there.....
Dear Auntie Lowan,
do YOU know where I put my gray fluffy hat? Dr. Gustav Ratz had some indecent and unflattering suggestions. I believe you will deal with my question more conscientiously and delicately. Is Dr. Ratz trustworthy in his counsels?
Thank you,
Daguar.
Dagmaraka - may I suggest that you close your eyes - conjure up an image of your hat - really clearly - focus on it - focus - now call it, out loud, three times - and wait.
I am unable to comment on the trustworthiness of a char....ahem....colleague, I am afraid....sadly....because I COULD!
