Go to Guy's blog about life with pets in northern mich.
- Add a comment
- Go to Based on one of the first blogs I ever wrote. Nothing much has changed.
Re: Azur, you're not the usual variety of blogger!
Azur,
Wow! I never had contact with a time-traveler, before now! I always thought that time travel would only be possible, backward, but never forward. That means that nobody will have to stress over whether or not they should do something, because everything is already "chiseled in stone," PREDESTINED! Well, live and learn I guess.
So tell me, did you ever meet ol' Willy Shakespeare personally, in the flesh? What was he like?
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on March 26, 2010 at 5:50 PM
| link to this | reply
"Have you ever used the words, “entwine, wench, flogged, varlet, midsummer, fortnight, forlorn, lovelorn, methinks, yore, hither, thither and yon, or whilst,” without quoting the “Bard of Avon?” Then there are all those biblical words, only used among true believers, or when one is feeling particularly holy. "Thee, thine, thou, begat, scourged, smitten, etc" you know the ones. Only in Bible quotes or sanctimonious, righteous ranting, (often the same things) are these words used in many of our modern-day lives." I have used the emboldened words recently without thought of Shakespeare or the Bible.
posted by
Azur
on March 26, 2010 at 4:29 PM
| link to this | reply
I love words and have several dictionaries of all kinds! But my favorite is 'The Word Museum' by Jeffrey Kacirk! It has fantastic words in it like: ale-score: a debt at an ale-house; azzardly: a wayward child; backspang: a trick or legal quirk; barguest: a ghost. all in white, hello Casper, lol; and pizzle-grease: an ointment made of lard boiled from a hog's pizzle; and zwodder: a drowsy and stupid state of the body or mind and finally, zythepsary, a brewhouse! lol Have a great day! sam
posted by
sam444
on March 24, 2010 at 5:28 AM
| link to this | reply
Looking forward tothe post for us......Sagehaven sounds as though it is
going to be as lovely for you and Marylin as our Diddums house is here for us. Who needs a palace.....people might think they can come and stay. I've never made money either....I pay with Aussie dollars ....no need to say more.but I am here to read fun like you post, to learn somthing to make friends and communicate and fullfill my need to write.
posted by
Kabu
on March 23, 2010 at 8:30 PM
| link to this | reply
northsage45
That sounds like a marvelous project you're working on and here's "mud in your eye."
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 23, 2010 at 8:15 PM
| link to this | reply
Re: But of course the Americans haven't used English for Years.........and as
Kabu,
If you have never read my tongue-in-cheek comments, about the origin of the one biggest thing stressing our friendly relationship with the people of the UK, and separates our citizens culturally, I espouse a theory that the problem springs from our "Common" language. I have been reposting too many old blogs lately, because I have been busy working on the original, true Sagehaven. Won't be much longer, and it'll be perfect! Sagehaven #1 is a forty-five year-old two bedroom, Dish washer, full basement, single bath, w/large twenty-something by thirty-something garage, in a secluded, peaceful, five-acre wooded island of serenity, surrounded by open farm land. It'll never be a palace, but it WILL be perfect, and an affordable place for two to live comfortably. My outdoor wood-burning furnace will heat our home, garage, greenhouse and water, all for $500-$600 a year.
Soon I can begin posting more original work, but I don't want to lose the few readers I have retained, so I'll post my US, UK, nonsense later, if anyone is interested in reading it. Originally, some readers thought I was seriously believing that the crap I write is my real opinion. Haven't they ever heard of "Writer's license?" (license to tell lies with impunity) Don't they recognize ironic sarcasm? Anyway, have I got a blog, tailor-made for YOU & WILEY!
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on March 23, 2010 at 5:49 PM
| link to this | reply
I am SO glad to hear from you, my dear friend!
Sinome,
I naturally assumed that I wrote something offensive to you, and you decided to move on, hopefully to read writers more suited to a lady with refined European tastes, as I know you to be. We colonials are crude, admittedly. Given my quite small number of loyal readers, this must be happening a lot, I suspect. In my nearly three years writing on blogit, I have banked a whopping $98.00, and paid in monthly payments to Shaycom,..........Sorry, I refuse to do the calculation, because I don't want to know just how much my obsessive need to communicate with other grownups, (however badly) has cost me, in final the balance sheet.
Anyway, I'm really glad to learn that you are again reading my stuff. Thank you my friend.
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on March 23, 2010 at 4:11 PM
| link to this | reply
Excelent write Guy... I've missed you reading you and its totally my fault.
I plan to remedy that :-) xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on March 23, 2010 at 3:46 PM
| link to this | reply
But of course the Americans haven't used English for Years.........and as
for those Horstralians, with their convict origins.......they can just all get stuffed. It is amazing though, so many of those old words I do use AND understand their origins ...well my parents were born a hundred years ago so I suppose I grew up with so many of them.....and Wiley is always looking for a translation when I chat away.....much of our idioms in Oz I believe began their lives in the London Slums....NOT that there is any convict blood in THIS little lady. Great post and has set me reminiscing.
posted by
Kabu
on March 23, 2010 at 3:07 PM
| link to this | reply