Yes, these three letters are so infuriating you could come down with mental rabies, and then you would bite yourself. But we digress. Here are the facts:
Et = and
Cetera = the rest of. THE REST OF.
So the very mousy stingy sickly least you can do when you’re talking about "the rest of" is to spell out "the rest of" because if you squish it down to one letter, then you’ll never see the rest of Et Cetera.
And speaking of Et Cetera – the rest of the story is we are still packing up The Penthouse, and the rest of the crap that keeps appearing.
Appearing Crap
Yet, amazingly, we have kept a stiff upper chin throughout the barmyprocess, although "process" now seems an alien term.
Therefore, we thank so many of you for suggesting we nab the url "www.internationaldateline.com." Indeed, it seems a natural fit for the je ne sais quoi permeating the woods of our minds.
Now all we have to do to hit another home run in this business is figure out the content for the website.
Staff felt strongly that "internationaldateline" should be a dating website. For just about anyone seeking biblical knowledge, et cetera, of strangers in a funny time zone.
It could also be a website to find out what day it is.
The matter remains in committee. Maybe it could be about hypothetical geography. Committee welcomes suggestions, please if you don’t mind.
Fictionary Friday + Bonus Reader Reply of the Week:
This week, many thanks to "Anonymous Reader" (with initials made of vowels that could also be the abbreviation of a corn-belt state) from beautiful Durango, Colorado.
Trumpoline(trump oh leen) Noun: Backyard device used to jump from one point to another and then back to the original point and then bouncing off task entirely and denying you were ever on it.
In a sentence: Volunteers said they were packing up all Appearing Crap, but really they were playing bumper cars with everything on the trumpoline.
Fizzdom Friday: from our collection of favorite quotes.
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."- Arthur C. Clarke
Wikipedia Friday Favorite: In honor of the intersection of curiosity and logarithmically expanding human knowledge, we offer a weekly favorite obscure Wikipedia page. This week’s selection is inspired by Jeff Bridges at the Golden Globes:
"I kind of look through my life through the filter of movies. I find directors and fellow actors all over the place in my life. One guy, he had nothing to do with the movies, but I’ve taken a
lot of direction from him. That’s Bucky Fuller. Bucky, he’s most famous for the geodesic dome, but he made a great observation about these oceangoing tankers. And he noticed that the engineers were particularly challenged by how to turn this thing, you know? They got this big rudder, it took too much energy to turn the rudder to turn the ship. So they came up with a brilliant idea. Let’s put a little rudder on the big rudder. The little rudder will turn the big rudder, the big rudder will turn the ship. The little rudder is called a trim tab.
Bucky made the analogy that a trim tab is an example of how the individual is connected to society and how we affect society. And I like to think of myself as a trim tab. All of us are trim tabs. We might seem like we’re not up to the task, but we are, man. We’re alive! We can make a difference! We can turn this ship in the way
we wanna go, man!"
Friday Fluff: The president must have some ridiculously clean money since he’s been laundering it obsessively for fifty years. (We recommend Woolite so the numbers don’t wash off.) (It’d be funny if the benjamins lost their zeros.) (But maybe they were ones anyway. That might be funnier.) Write if (do) or (do not) abbreviate the rest of et cetera.
