From Bruce Barlett:

[Dawson Leery]

https://twitter.com/BruceBartlett/status/745020940824748036


"I understand that no final decision has yet been made on whether GOP convention delegates will march around a giant burning cross."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. These are pretty hilarious.

"Is there any stupider person on earth than someone who donates money to a billionaire?"

"I wonder if in the back of his mind Trump thinks the whole campaign is a recording that can be edited before air time?"

[longship]

2. I am of the opinion that the GOP and Drumpf deserve only abject ridicule.

And let it trickle down to all the state offices as well. Call it trickle down ridicule.

And make sure you laugh at them. I mean hearty, belly-aching laughs, not some silly snicker or giggle.

[kentauros]

3. Trickicule? or Tridicule?

Tricklicule
Ritricklous

Okay, this is absurd

[longship]

4. Well, have at it, Hoss!

The more, the merrier!

We have to stick together. I am with you, all the way. Even to Hell's gates.
Just keep laughing our fucking asses off along the road, which I understand is paved somehow.

My best to you.

[kentauros]

5. Of course, I went looking at the etymology.

Ridicule hasn't changed much from the Latin. And "trickle down" dates officially from 1944, and even back to Teddy Roosevelt. That must have been the trickle down from the robber barons. Nothing ever changes.

Also, Trumplicule

[longship]

6. I have an OED II. I don't use it enough.

The old compact version, two volumes, with the supplement and the good magnifier. Etymology is a good thing. I need to visit my OED more often. It's always a fun journey. Alas, that road is also paved somehow. The problem is extricating oneself.

[kentauros]

7. I just use a favorite website

Online Etymology Dictionary which references the OED as well as several others:

The basic sources of this work are Weekley's "An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English," Klein's "A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language," "Oxford English Dictionary" (second edition), "Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology," Holthausen's "Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache," and Kipfer and Chapman's "Dictionary of American Slang." A full list of print sources used in this compilation can be found here.

And extricating oneself from that is nigh impossible!

[longship]

8. Oh dear! All I need is more diversions.

Oh dearie dear! There just isn't enough time anymore. What with DU, and my OED, and the dreaded televisionary set, and Netflix DVDs coming into my mailbox once a week. Don't get me started about my bookshelf of time consuming cheap novellas and opera recordings.

What is one to do with ones time when there's so little of it?


A great colloquy! That kinda makes my day. What little of it remains.

[kentauros]

9. "What is one to do with ones time when there's so little of it?"

Catalog it and then forget about it as the next thing takes up all of your time

[longship]

10. It is forgotten!

Now what was I doing???? Oh dear, not again! Age is such a burden.

My best to you, my friend.