All of this news over the Upcoming Royal Wedding prompted a look tody into the word "vicariously". Te largest dictionary in my house is also (I believe) the oldest, a two volume 1950 shorter Oxford in faded blue cloth covers. It says that 'vicarious' means substitution, representation, and a passaage I found particularly interesting, "of ( Read more... )

"-because modern song lyrics suck, have you noticed that? It's always the same set of fifty or sixty words and tired phrases. Cat Stevens once wrote a song called 'I love my dog as much as I love you', and sure, it's not exactly romantic, but you can appreciate the honesty. In the fifties they just wrote songs about anything -" because the world ( Read more... )

But is probably not as interesting as that makes it sound. Yesterday was the last day of the school term over here, and school finished at 11 o'clock. About two classes' worth of people were spotted afterwards wearing tacky sombreros. I'm not sure why, but who needs to know the reason behind all of life's mysteries? That would ruin the fun. So ( Read more... )

( This is huge. Why is this huge? Actually, it's not that huge, it was there twice. Jeez... )