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"Stirious", meaning "icicle-like", is one of my favourite forgotten words. Say it - it tastes like plastic. Weird
Prof Yaffle,I tried to bring that word back back with my hit single My Stirious Girl, about a particularly cold girlfriend. Alas, a misprint on the record sleeve changed the implications of my song irrevocably. Such is life, I suppose.
They’ve a way of whispering to me—fellow-wight who yet abide –In the muted, measured noteOf a ripple under archways, or a lone cave’s stillicide. (Tomas Hardy, ‘Friends Beyond’)Did we ever find out, by the way, what Professor Yaffe is a Professor of?
How dare you question my credentials sir, I am a respected senior academic! Your effrontery compels me to peck out your eyes with my stirious beak! Feel my wrath!
You cannot be stirious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVzAJbEkyyU&feature=relatedHe's certainly a pessimist if this footage is anything to go by.
"Stirious", meaning "icicle-like", is one of my favourite forgotten words. Say it - it tastes like plastic. Weird
ReplyDeleteProf Yaffle,
ReplyDeleteI tried to bring that word back back with my hit single My Stirious Girl, about a particularly cold girlfriend.
Alas, a misprint on the record sleeve changed the implications of my song irrevocably.
Such is life, I suppose.
They’ve a way of whispering to me—
ReplyDeletefellow-wight who yet abide –
In the muted, measured note
Of a ripple under archways, or a lone cave’s stillicide.
(Tomas Hardy, ‘Friends Beyond’)
Did we ever find out, by the way, what Professor Yaffe is a Professor of?
How dare you question my credentials sir, I am a respected senior academic! Your effrontery compels me to peck out your eyes with my stirious beak! Feel my wrath!
ReplyDeleteYou cannot be stirious.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVzAJbEkyyU&feature=related
ReplyDeleteHe's certainly a pessimist if this footage is anything to go by.