Today’s classic A&J comes from less than a year ago, but I’m showing it to you again, because it relates to our conversation about subtlety. To wit, sometimes I am to blame! I admit it. The above cartoon probably would have worked better for most of us if I had used the word “mundane” instead of “quotidian.” The words are virtually synonymous, and more people probably are familiar wit the former. However, I’m human! I learn a great new word like “quotidian” and I have to use it. My old journalism professors warned us about that, but I wouldn’t listen.
135 responses to “Quotidian Marks”
Perhaps 8-year-olds should not be watching a show called Oggy and the Cockroaches? Just a thought.
Especially 8-year-old boys who don’t grok boobs. I did when I was eight. Dad should be glad he didn’t ask, “What kind of roaches?”
Sitting in Radiology Waiting, wondering if the little medical girls are getting cuter or if it’s just my febrile imagination.
GR6, strange law of aging; as the females appear younger and more lush, we grow older and less desirable.
GR6, reminds me of a Shoe strip of many years ago. One character asks another how his dating is going. Not good, he answers. Most of the women I’m interested in call me “Sir”.
Good points, sand and Mark.
One of my favorite A&J cartoons (I don’t have time to look up): Janis asks Alro if younger women look better to him as he gets older. “No,” Alro deadpans. As Janis smiles, Arlo thinks to self, “Older ones do.”
One of Jimmy’s more profound observations.
Jackie, should you find a t-shirt lettered “Carpe uberibus”, be sure to get it. At least you might be groped by a better class of masher.
Boise Ed, I clicked on your name there, and found this: http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?AuthorId=425&MyLimOrder=Revised&PageLen=10
You should have shared this sooner! I will be back to it when I’m not busy.
To continue today’s medical theme, the Thought for the Day:
Whoever said “Laughter is the best medicine” never had an STD.
Ghost, as Lou Costello would have said, “You’re a baaaaaaaaaad boy!”.
For Debbe 😉 and other Village FOB’s (Friends of Breakfast).
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Whoa – TMI!
Maybe this would have been clearer had JJ used “quotidian” (BTW, not “quotidain”) in its more common adjectival sense and not as a noun substantive.
Thanks, Denise.
I understand what Arlo means, Ghost. I still look at the young guys, but my eyes don’t linger on them the way they do on men with lived-in faces and bodies. I’d rather have a meal prepared by a man who can cook tan a candybar handed to me by a kid. 😉
“than”, not “tan”
Good point, Denise. One I’ll have to remember. 🙂
Off to my class. See you in about five hours.
First learned quotidian from Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, but cannot remember which book.* In order of publ.: [* or maybe in an article]
“The langurs of Abu”, Harvard U.P. Based on her doctoral research on Hanuman langurs near an inst. for the blind in India. Much as some object, infanticide is normal in some primates, and has since been confirmed in other mammals that live in particular sorts of social groups.
“The woman that never evolved”, Harvard U.P. [But she (human woman) did, even though earlier male primatologists paid her little attn., or got it wrong.] Sarah is a good writer, eminently readable, a very civilized feminist, and a neat person. I’ve mentioned her here before.
“Mother nature”, Pantheon, magnum opus, the first of three projected volumes. About the nature of primate mothers and motherhood. I need to get back to that one. Other things came up, and I’ll probably have to start it over, or maybe skim through the first half.
Peace, emb
Arlo:
No matter how much I pretended, it just never came true.
I fear that I will never become suddenly interested in things malarian.
Feeling that I have to grouse some over this word everyone is fawning over. Sure, it has those meanings you guys have discussed … I’ve known it a long time … but it’s not a word suitable to use in conversation. It’s awkward, hard to pronounce, sounds funny if you do say it out loud … even looks funny on the page. If spoken in conversation would sound pretentious, even ridiculous.
John, Thanks for your interest, but I assure you that I am very familiar with prostate treatment options. My surgeon tells me that if I had not chosen surgery I would have had a sexless life that would have ended by now. I remain cancer free after eight years, with the exception of some skin cancer.
Guys and gals, when you were young(er), did you think that you would be interested in sleeping with a senior citizen? “Older women are beautiful lovers.”-Ronnie McDowell.
To someone in here, assuming that she was serious:
Troll, troll, troll your board,
flaming down the Web.
Desult’ry, desult’ry, desult’ry, desult’ry,
The Net is but a screed.
First self-defense class (unarmed) completed. I can now take someone’s legs out if they grab and grapple with me; break a choke hold with one finger; and break’a they face if they bull-rush me in a parking lot. And I saw a chubby five foot two inch lady put a 6’3″ 225-lb instructor flat on his back with a shoulder toss.
The class was about 90% female. Smart ladies. I’d recommend that all the Village ladies check to see if their area law enforcement agencies offer such a course. We don’t live in bubbles, and we never know what kind of situation we might encounter.
Dearest Ghost, the class you took sounds truly amazing! Wish I could have seen all that. Must be very worthwhile indeed. (I fear that I am in no kind of shape to take a class like that, but I’m glad that you did.)
Jackie, you said you are planning your route. Look at this article:http://www.snopes.com/travel/trap/morelandmarks.asp
Charlotte, it’s more about technique than strength or agility, and your best defensive weapon is your brain. One of the class was a young man confined to a wheelchair with paraplegia.
I saw one slightly-built lady in her late sixties repeatedly punching an instructor (in pads) in the solar plexus; any one of the punches would have bought an attacker my size to his knees and made him forget whatever he’d had in mind. And it would have been effective mostly because the attacker would have never expected it from her.
Debbe 😉 This just makes me want to hold her and make it all better for her, you know? 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srpwqf2MWAw