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    things “blog” might have meant

    In searching for something I'd blogged about several years ago I came across this, written back in March of 2005.

    Sometimes I just start thinking about stuff that it would be better not to, like the semantic spaces that got cheated out of a perfectly good name when blog became the by-popular-consent, de-facto name for weblogs.

    Would anyone be surprised or disappointed if, instead, blog had ended up meaning:

    1. The groggy feeling that accompanies complete boredom: I was feeling kind of bloggy all afternoon.
    2. The lumps that form in eggnog that has spoiled: He didn’t notice the blogs until he’d already taken a big gulp of Aunt Bertha’s now infamous holiday eggnog.
    3. A clog that causes a sink to back up: Finally, and with a rather loud slurping noise, the sink was unblogged.
    4. The act of slogging your way through a boring task: After a full day of blogging through year-end financial reports, Shelly was ready to scream!
    5. A blinding fog: Driving in bloggy weather can be extremely hazardous.
    6. Stale ale (gross grog?): Oh Yuck! How can you drink this blog?

    Okay…, so maybe I have a little too much time on my hands today.

    Feel free to add yours in a comment ...

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    Oh a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park / Or the lion hunter In the jungle dark

    Or the Chinese dentist or the British Queen / They all fit together In the same machine

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device

    Oh a whirling dervish and a dancing bear / Or a Ginger Rogers and a Fred Astaire

    Or a teenage rocker or the girls in France / Yes, we all are partners in this cosmic dance

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device
    _________________
    From "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)

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