Monday, November 28, 2005

A Little Ado about Nothing........Part II (The Sequal)


It's a very gray day here at sandy acre. The change in the weather with it's much need rain has plagued my sinuses all day, the pain and pressure held at bay by regular doses of generic sinus meds. So my day has been spent doing domestic things, surfing the net, listening to that evil left-wing NPR, drinking coffee, and smoking cigarettes. So what in Bob's name am I doing posting this...is it truly blog-worthy? Well, something did strike me.......

I was replying to a comment, trying to make out that obligatory code word for verification we use to keep out the spam, and it occurred to me that if a million chimpanzees sitting at a million typewriters typed for a million years, producing the complete works of Shakespeare, or the new testament (boy, that one would be a piece of cake for a chimpanzee), then it stands to reason that sooner or later this word generator would start creating an entirely new language. Look at these letters we are forced to type in and tell me you haven't seen a combination that makes up a passable word on occasion. So, being the champion of making up something out of nothing, I decided to start a new contest.

Now, you have to be honest about this. No making shit up. All this week, as you reply to blogs, look at the verification code letters before you type them in and see if they could actually be pronounced as a word. If so, then write them down and save them for next Sunday, then submit them as a comment to the contest post I will put online that day. The one that comes up with the most believable "words" generated all this week of blogging and commenting, gets to have a new language named after them. So, after enough of these contests, we should have enough words saved up to assign them meanings and create the first official blogger language! Imagine, speaking to each other in Shandesh! Imagine what a Michaelism might sound like! Or, if you really want to get wild......."Hey, Amigo, you speak Buffaleas?" The possibilities are hilarious! Just remember, however, a WORKING language has to come first; the vulgarities will have to evolve later.

This is what happens when a blogger is stuck home on a rainy day with nothing else to do. Einstein came up with relativity. Edison the light bulb. THE Michael........well, it's THE Michael, what do you expect?

8 comments:

morningstar said...

"what do i expect?" a good laugh.. and that is exactly what i got... (handing The Michael a kleenix for clogged sinuses)......

oh yeah .. and i rather like the combo of letter i have sitting waiting for me to type right here.. are YOU responsible for....... oh wait.. i can't tell You till Sunday right??? (wicked grin)

morningstar

teri said...

Yeah...there's not much for vowels but we could use our imaginations…The on down there right now is "dprxcr". That sounds like something...right?

teri said...

I lost my "e"... oh there it is. nrgpcs

Alex Pendragon said...

OK guys, I will allow you ONE free vowel to insert, so I suggest you find one with at least one vowel already there.......

include with your submissions how you think it would be pronounced.

morningstar said...

ummmmm Michael.. You do know some are gonna cheat eh?? and flit from blog to blog stealing verification codes and not actually comment...

Now i would NEVER do anything like that.... (big innocent grin)

morningstar

Alex Pendragon said...

Well, littleone, if they honestly think it's worth staining their own personal integrity by cheating just to come up with a word, then more power to them. Personally, if I thought it was worth the time to devote to this endeavor, I would also think it was worth the challenge of being honest. A cheater lives with his crime, it's his karma he screws with, not mine.

Bob sees all, hun.

Time said...

Can't we buy a vowel?

Alex Pendragon said...

sure, Tim......$19.95! lol