Answer: Vicious vs. Viscous

[chomiji]

Inquiring minds want to know the difference between vicious and viscous.

Comments

[smillaraaq]

Birdlime and droppings aren't the same thing, nee-chan, although they're sometimes confused in the modern day, and some (but not all) birds do have fairly sticky and hard-to-clean wastes! But real birdlime is actually a sticky gluey sort of substance used to capture small perching birds...sort of the avian equivalent of glue traps for mice.

[chomiji]

Crud, you're quite right, and I know better. I'm sort of surprised that no one called me on it during beta.

I'm not sure what the rules here are about a re-write. Let's see what I can do.

[campylobacter]

For some reason, the thought of describing a character with both the adjectives "vicious" and "viscous" is giving me flashbacks to the nightmares the movie "Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster" gave me when I was 7 years old.

[chomiji]

And I first read that as "Snog Monster," which is even better! Thanks for the laugh!

[smillaraaq]

Heee, "Snog Monster" sounds like an unbearably cute ficlet begging to be written! I wonder if Gojyo likes watching campy old tokusatsu movies? XD