31 AUG 04
Things Ray Says #83:
“1984 is too a very funny book.”
(Insert rimshot here.)
mala fide: (Late Latin) With or in bad faith, treacherously.
"Legend has it that if you fold a thousand paper cranes you will be granted your heart’s desire, which I imagine at that point is to never see a goddamn paper crane again in your life."
Lore Fitzgerald Sjöberg, The Book of Ratings, Origami.
Glad Måndagen!
I don’t sit around thinking this stuff up, it just comes to me in a blaze of satire. This one’s sitting on my dashboard.
I’ve got five gears and I’m not afraid to use them.
From Merriam-Webster.
Misprize
Pronunciation: “mis-’prIz
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle French mesprisier, from mes-: mis- + prisier: to appraise — more at PRIZE
1 : to hold in contempt : DESPISE
2 : UNDERVALUE
I found it in a box of evil Cracker Jacks.
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