I like this meme.
Thanks to jazzykym and jbowes, I am calmer tonight and can do memes. Thank you, thank you, thank you, both! So much!
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This time, I got this meme from aliki
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
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When your mother's well-meaning but interventionist crony Mrs. Planterbox remarks, for the fourteenth time, what a pity it is that your children spend all of their time reading instead of having a proper hobby, you explain that they used to take an interest in lapidation but have had difficulty finding a suitable subject--perhaps she might find the time to oblige?
LEMAN n ~ Paramour (q.v.); lover; inamorata (or, for that matter, inamorato--but the female sense, of mistress, has for some reason become more common in recent times). May be pronounced lemon, leeman, or even, according to one of the author's sources, layman. The first and third of these pronunciations offer obvious opportunities.
LESION n ~ The Superior Person's word for a scratch, cut, bruise, abrasion, sore, or pimple.
LETHOLOGICA and LETHONOMIA n ~ The former is the inability to recall the right word, the latter the inability to recall the right name. The reader who suffers from either (or, like the author, both) of these conditions s hould practice saying, "Excuse my lethologica/lethonomia"; this is distinctly preferable to saying, "It's on the tip of my tongue . . .," but, unfortunately, also distinctly harder--in fact, almost impossible for one who suffers from the condition(s) in question.
(It's not made up of all real sentences, so I was a bit flexible in what I chose to type)
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This time, I got this meme from aliki
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
~~~
When your mother's well-meaning but interventionist crony Mrs. Planterbox remarks, for the fourteenth time, what a pity it is that your children spend all of their time reading instead of having a proper hobby, you explain that they used to take an interest in lapidation but have had difficulty finding a suitable subject--perhaps she might find the time to oblige?
LEMAN n ~ Paramour (q.v.); lover; inamorata (or, for that matter, inamorato--but the female sense, of mistress, has for some reason become more common in recent times). May be pronounced lemon, leeman, or even, according to one of the author's sources, layman. The first and third of these pronunciations offer obvious opportunities.
LESION n ~ The Superior Person's word for a scratch, cut, bruise, abrasion, sore, or pimple.
LETHOLOGICA and LETHONOMIA n ~ The former is the inability to recall the right word, the latter the inability to recall the right name. The reader who suffers from either (or, like the author, both) of these conditions s hould practice saying, "Excuse my lethologica/lethonomia"; this is distinctly preferable to saying, "It's on the tip of my tongue . . .," but, unfortunately, also distinctly harder--in fact, almost impossible for one who suffers from the condition(s) in question.
(It's not made up of all real sentences, so I was a bit flexible in what I chose to type)