Friday Ephemera
Today’s word is multitasking. A story unfolds. || Shocking scenes of Canadian road rage. || Redundant words. || CIA-issue rectal tool kit. For when you need to discreetly stash those tiny saws and drills. || Calligraphy with drill. || Crash heard, culprit detected. || Tone-deafness test. || Pop stars and their younger selves. || Ceaseless vigilance. || Don’t try this at home. || A drink and a show, in one. || Why women are often nesh. || This is one of these. || A Scandal in Bohemia. Starring Jeremy Brett. || When butterflies attack. || Making chains. || Maximum wife points. || You want one and you know it. || Local woman rendered in yarn. || Swell jelly. || Festive scenes. | Feel-good footage. || Or nearest offer.
Redundant words: nape of the neck
Not always, a nape is also a piercing in the nape, so there is a large and likely painful difference between grabbing someone by the nape of the neck and by the nape in the neck. Nape is also slang for napalm, which is a whole other level of pain in the neck, or on the neck, and you certainly don’t want to grab it.
Damnit wrong key again…
Also, being an anatomical pedant as I am, nape of the neck refers only to the back (dorsal) to the neck, which, as it is a 3D object, also has a front (ventral) and sides (lateral), as much as a generally cylindrical object has sides.
as much as a generally cylindrical object has sides
…or orientation.
…or orientation.
True enough, unless it is attached to something that defines its front, sides, and back.
…or orientation.
No, you have to ask it what its orientation is.
No, you have to ask it what its orientation is.
Good point, a neck could identify as a coccyx.
Good point, a neck could identify as a coccyx.
LOL squared and cubed.
David, I’m paying for Farnsworth’s drinks tonight.
no-one would ever actually vote for them or their policies.
Jeremy Corbyn, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, et al. agree.