How do you tell the difference between flotsam and jetsam?

[kriz1818]

Time for another semi-random post!

HE (on phone from used book store):  ... and they've got a copy of the OED.

ME:  Really?  Cool.

HE:   Yeah, it takes up a whole shelf.  They want $750 for it.

ME:  ...   ...   We'd buy a stove.

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And, via free-association from ginmar's latest blood-pressure test:

Q:  How many feminists

Comments

[princejvstin]

I can't spell miscellaneous ;)

[buymeaclue]

Jetsam is the stuff that gets thrown off the ship. Flotsam is the debris left floating after the ship has sunk.

...was that rhetorical? :-p

[kriz1818]

LOL. I actually got curious and looked it up, myself!

But I suspect it mostly looks the same when it washes up on the shore.

[margdean56]

Flotsam is an elf and Jetsam is a human.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5222990/1/In_All_But_Blood

[kriz1818]

Egad! That's funny.

But I'm afraid my disinterest in (or possibly irrational prejudice against) things Elfquest even extends to things written by my friends. :shrugs:

[margdean56]

No problem. The link was really only to explain the comment. As for the rest: de gustibus non est disputandem.