Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Keyboard
I know most of you, our avid Word readership, spend countless hours reading and re-reading the posts we write for this blog, and you’re wondering to yourselves, “Selves, how do the Minds come up with all their profound and fantastic notions?” Well the following chat transcript should give you a little peek into the minds of the Minds, two of us at least, to show you how we come up with our particularly inspired brand of magic.
Thor:How’s that synthetic cow coming along?
atticusser: awaiting funding
Thor: What???
Thor: Stupid buer…burr
Thor: …buaer…
Thor: I have no idea how to spell burocracy
atticusser: bureaucracy
Thor: bureaucracy
Thor: That is a stupid word.
atticusser: well, it is french in origin
Thor: That is a stupid originally French word.
atticusser: indeed
Thor: Did you know that English is derived from a combination of French and German?
atticusser: I think english is derived from a combination of awesome
Thor: Before England was really England, it was populated by French speaking nobility and German speaking commoners.
Thor: That’s why we have two words for so many things.
atticusser: look, I already read “The Mother Tongue”
Thor: Huh?
atticusser: wow
Thor: Wow what?
atticusser: I just experienced a super-colossal meltdown of my system
atticusser: that’s never happened to me before on linux
Thor: I was having a very similar problem two days ago.
Thor: I spent the whole day fighting with my stupid computer.
Thor: Of course, I run Windows, so it’s expected.
atticusser: what kind of weapons were you using?
Thor: A bo staff.
atticusser: nunchuks?
Thor: No, Atticusser.
Thor: They’re called Nuchaku.
Thor: Seriously.
atticusser: no that’s different
Thor: Only because I spelled it wrong.
Thor: Nunchaku.
atticusser: I mean nunchuks
atticusser: those things that nuns chuck at you
Thor: Exploding bibles? No I didn’t have any of those.
Thor: But that would have come in handy.
atticusser: too bad
Thor: That’s also different than a Nunchucker, which I really could have used.
atticusser: you know what they say, “the pen is mightier than the sword”
atticusser: of course, the guy that wrote that later had his head cut off by a sword that sliced right through the pen he was using to defend himself
Thor: Showed him.
Thor: What if I got a really big sword and attached a pen to the end of it?
Thor: Then I could either lop your melon off or draw a moustache on your lip at sword point.
atticusser: I think that was his assumption
atticusser: the pen/sword combo is mightier than just the plain old sword
Thor: They should really have specified that.
atticusser: plus you can first mark where you intend to slash with your sword
atticusser: so you know where to aim
Thor: It’s that kind of generality that gets people’s pens cut in half and their heads cut off all the time.
atticusser: an even better idea would be a pen that double as a light saber
atticusser: but you’d have to be careful which button you push
Thor: OR A FISHING POLE!
atticusser: I think the fishing pole has been done
Thor: You have seen those commercials, I assume?
atticusser: yes
Thor: What a fantastic idea that is. Almost as good as the Snuggie.
atticusser: imagine if they were combined
atticusser: the awesome power you would wield!
Thor: But you know what would be even better than a pen/light saber combo? A pen/nunchucker/nuchuks combo.
Thor: It’s a pen that produces a guy that chucks nuns who in turn chuck exploding bibles.
atticusser: this reminds of an idea I had for the blog
atticusser: I already introduced the “question of the day” category
Thor: Which I did enjoy.
atticusser: but I intend to extend that to the “invention of the day” category
Thor: Well a precedent has been established.
Thor: With the faux cow milk machine and the whole post on the snuggie.
atticusser: because I have too many invention ideas in my head to not publish them to some kind of blog
Thor: It does seem the proper venue.
atticusser: yes, it’s a veritable thinktank
