DG has decided to do me one better after my foray into the word “nonce”.
Oh, that’s easy.
Bibble is actually a verb, not a noun. To bibble means to drink often or to eat or drink noisily.
Duh……I actually wrote the word balloon over your head… duh.
What the heck is that supposed to mean?
I think maybe I should be feeling a bit insulted right now.
DG wore himself out bouncing on his pogo stick. So now, he is taking a nap.
Well, I’m sure that he will wake up in a nonce.
Hmmmm.
I’m not sure. I will look that up on the interwebs.
Jus’ a sec.
OK. Here it is.
“Nonce: adjective
occurring, used, or made only once or for a special occasion”
“Nonce: noun
the one, particular, or present occasion, purpose, or use
the time being”
No, wait, there’s more. Listen to this….
“Nonce first appeared in Middle English as a noun spelled ‘nanes.’ The spelling likely came about from a misdivision of the phrase ‘then anes.’ (‘Then’ was the Middle English equivalent of ‘the’ and anes meant ‘one purpose.’) The word was especially used in the phrase for the nonce, meaning ‘for the one purpose,’ as in Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘Prologue’ of Canterbury Tales: ‘A cook they hadde with hem for the nones To boille the chiknes with the marybones.’ The adjective ‘nonce’ did not exist in print until the publication in 1884 of the New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (which later became the Oxford English Dictionary). The editor of that dictionary, James Murray, created the term ‘nonce-word’ as a label for ‘words apparently employed for the nonce.'”
Pretty interesting, don’t ya think, DG?
DG?
DG?
Sigh.
Our recent software upgrade has put a new spring into DG’s step.
Well, that’s a bit over the top.
We pulled the trigger on the software update. We are now running DG on version 6.<mumble-something>
Let’s see how DG is doing.
Oh. That’s not good.
Just a second. I’ll go change some settings.
OK. How’s that?
Better…. but not there yet.
Let’s see…. tweak that setting…. fiddle with this other setting…… turn on the framstat wratchet…
Welcome back.
Hey, it coulda been worse. You coulda stopped thinking about it.
It is time to update the software that is running this blog.
I have been putting this off for a long time now, but it is being forced on me at this time to avoid losing the blog. I am using version 4.<mumble-something>, and the whole world has moved on to version 6.<mumble-something> so we have to switch it up.
Yes, DG, we have to take the chance and upgrade you. So don’t be surprised if you come back looking more like this:
Sorry, but that is the risk we must take to keep up with the stampeding technology that we use.
Such a drama queen.
It looks like DG’s weight loss program has been way more effective than we anticipated.
OK. OK. Sheesh, such a grump. I will draw you normal again.
But then, what should we do now for laughs?
Oooh. Aaaah. OK then. That opens up a lot of possibilities.
Hmmmm. I will have to give that some thought.
DG’s new diet of eating nothing but celery is all well and good, but I had a better idea.
“Hey, DG, I think that my Shredded Wheat and Cardboard diet is better.”
Yeah. If you run out of the shredded wheat, you can go ahead and eat the box it came in. You can hardly tell the difference.
DG was shocked by what he saw on the scales last week, so he has gone on a Celery Only Diet.
Because I don’t know how to draw celery well enough that people will realize what it is supposed to be.
So I added the label.
Check it out yourself. Go look in the mirror.
Sometimes DG is too easy.
Here we are at the Ides of January so it is time to check in and see how we are doing with our New Year’s resolutions.
I have already failed at my resolution to “Eat more salt, fat and sugar and try to put on some weight”. Hence I have lost about three pounds of my holiday binge weight.
See how that works?
DG, on the other hand has diligently stuck to that same resolution, and …. well…. it’s beginning to show.
“DG”, I said, “it’s pretty easy to continue eating more fat, salt and sugar, but that tends to result in the successful completion of the last part…. to put on some weight.”
“Yep” I said, “You should go check it out on the scales”.
Now where did he run off to?
Well that’s a bit more like it.
But I’m getting tired just watching.
I ran into DG, and he now has decided on his New Year’s Resolution.
He decided to adopt my annual resolution, to “Eat more salt, fat and sugar and try to put on some weight”.
It looks like he has taken it to heart.
He might have misinterpreted the gag.
“Hey, DG. It’s a joke. You don’t really do it. It’s a joke.”
Oh my. What have we wrought?
