Trousered Ape

An exercise in presumption.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

No one has tagged me for this, but I’ll do it anyway (ht to Darwin Catholic:

Book Meme Rules

1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

Book: Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged, Second Edition (1975)

Posting: (From the definition of auction [noun]):
1. a public sale of items, one by one, to the highest bidder, usually by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose.
2. the property sold or offered for sale at auction. [Obs.]
3. auction bridge.

Under the circumstances, the definition of "sentence" had to be arbitrary. Page 123 started with "auchenium"; this and the next three words ("au contraire", "au courant", and "auctary") had unique definitions, i.e., only one sense, so I took each with its definition as a single sentence. I then took the actual word "auction" and its etymology as the fifth sentence.

Step 5 has been omitted.

Posted by Bob the Ape 10:01 AM

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Scientists discover the bones of a one-ton rodent in South America.

Where's a ninja cat when you really need one?

(Hat tip to Dale Price at Dyspeptic Mutterings.)

Posted by Bob the Ape 6:23 PM

Thursday, January 10, 2008

NINJA HAIKU

I wear black because
I'm a ninja, not a Goth!
Goths are really lame.

My craft demands that
I practice absolute stealth,
So, no tap dancing.

"Hey! Ninja humor!
'What kind of beef do nuns eat?
They eat nun-chuck!'" Groan.

The black ninja cat
Stalks silently in the night.
Die, samurai mouse!

Swiftly, up the wall
I climb: no mission of death:
I have young children.

"How many nuns could
A nunchuck chuck if a nun-"
Shut up already.

Once, shadow of fear;
Now, foolish entertainment;
I hate those turtles.

I shall try out my
New boomerang shuriken:
Whizz, whizz, whizz, whizz...Ouch!

"My friend Charles asked,
'Who was Joshua's fa-'" - sudden
Decapitation.

Posted by Bob the Ape 7:08 AM