1) Where did Okay (or O.K.) come from? I was wondering about this other day, and if you scroll through the answers, the expansion from 1830's American slang seems solid, especially when I consider how well other replacement or rhyming slang persists through public affection for using it, and how contagious slang usage is, my homeys and BFFs. Okay is a super-successful international export. And although I don't use K.G. for the know good homonymic version, I still use N.G. for No Good, and like that I'm keeping history and incomprehensibility alive.
2) Srsly, I can't remember whether I ever posted this, and realize my memory could improve with doodling while surfing, obviously, or obvo, as you like.
3) Brian May is the fabulous lead guitarist of the rock band Queen, and since 2007, an astrophysicist with his PhD. Perhaps way back in 1975, you had the same desire to work time dilation theory, an outgrowth of Einstein's Special Relativity, into an acoustic tune of epic exploration and pathos. Here's how May did it during an era when wombat-dancing listeners just assumed he was being metaphorically loose and groovy.
4) I hardly feel I ought to have to explain the image above (link via this blog), but as Thanksgiving approaches here in the U.S. many people are considering how to prepare the traditional big bird. Removing the spine, allowing one to butterfly the turkey for more even, faster cooking is one method. So, will you or won't you be following this recipe and Spatchcocking for the holidays?
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4 comments:
You've made another boring Saturday interesting. Thanks, Clare.
(I never ever woulda guessed that a member of Queen had a Ph.D., especially in astrophysics!)
Yikes, Clare, give me a warning, so I'm not greeted by the sight of dead bird spine early on a Saturday morning.
I can't get over the picture. Looks like you just pulled an alien parasite out of that turkey.
Sara- I suppose for non-turkey eaters and any turkey-surfers themselves, it might be extremely disturbing. I was greeting with the sight, un-forewarned, which made it so much weirder, so I passed it on. Like taking a drink of sour milk and asking you to try it to be sure : )
Charles- That, or something you could see at a sleazy show for a few pesos.
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