cruor nucis—fux0r!

I had the beginnings of a post written, but decided it would be bad.  But now that I've got the title I can't help but want to post something with it.  Ironically the post I had started was to involve using something that you know is sub-par because it's still good enough that you want to display that you thought of it, even if you couldn't get it right.  (The vehicle was to be the joke whose punchline is "rectum?  Damn near killed 'im!".)  So, there you go: cruor nucis—fux0r!

[blah blah blah: One upshot of all this is that, since I intended to link to this bizarre thing by Stephen Will Tanner (though he hardly knows 'er) in the abandoned post, it was at the very forefront of my cerebellum at a certain opportune moment elsewhere, with the result that languagehat has linked to me, woo. And I have been looking through the David Delaney's archive of interesting ark posts, including To Lacaille's Land by Telephene, an episode of Scientifiction Playhouse, Lap Dissolve, and an instance of trilining, that most rarefied of art forms. Ah, memories of newsreaders. Too bad I've been out of the ark loop for a long time now.]

Comments

[des von bladet]

My A-level biology teacher couldn't say "rectum" without adding "no, but it didn't do 'em much good."

[ben wolfson]

dvb, are you in fact ariel weinberg? You can admit it to me. I won't judge you.

I base my identification on the following excerpt from Ten and a Half Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and More Lard:

Descriptif: It is a pie, a cake, a pizzq!
No, it is a blackbird.

[des von bladet]

Not guilty. I could never keep up with the kibologistes.

I did write:

"""
I was in two (2) minds about it,
Like a blackbird that had been cut in half

"""

though.

[ben wolfson]

I approve. You are a Pythoniste?

[des von bladet]

I am! I do maths ("math") and it is less painful than FORTRANic rubbish like Matlab, as I am currently finding out in far too much detail.

(Why?)

[ben wolfson]

(Because of the triple-quotes.)

[bitchphd]

Heh, wasn't the criticsm of mommy bloggers that they're all narcissistic and write mostly to themselves, but in public? ;)

(Which I am not saying that your notes to yourself do not amuse; they do. Just that's what went through my head as I read this.)

[ben wolfson]

I think of myself as the mother of a beautiful baby narcissism.

[eb]

Does he look like this?

[ben wolfson]

No, like this.

[washerdreyer]

Isn't posting something because you have a good title inconsistent with your view on the irrelevancy of post titles? Link not provided in a fit of pique.

[ben wolfson]

w/d: no, in fact I think it reinforces it. Neither the post as made or the post as planned had much to do with the gore of a nut or nerdy ejaculate.

[apostropher]

Does he look like this?

There's only one thing wrong with the Wolfson baby... it's alive.