Today’s guest post comes from tim.
the igsnats is raggled and sort of bedraggled and ferbuffing aballa chome
but just as she twizzled the homdong bedrizzled yo wassled im baxters liloam
it’s maxish ro traxish sel codee bulaxes faranda buttu or benigh
this eeps quite bittully lets not get unruly, erick and betook and oligh
ley boonk the bitussal because its refusal will dibble the gartz quite aboonly
if carblish is true then bortookly ri blue is the obvious ash to the junetree
i fear that nuressel quips inside my vessel and higgles to felton arral
if westleward ginkles leave bitelshear sprinkles amid levelosh divinthol
a quasterly mumfly domes flamen tumumkly emfatably worsle benee
ip waller gnishby sees more of the kish he rekembles his farberly wee
Do you ever have your warble go koo?
Gee morning. Ga gooble de what? My warble go koo? Ya I koo koo warble.
koo
Must be brillig today.
again today
all morning! Missed you all this past week… love the koo’d warble tim. I occasionally mix up the beginnings of words so that “winded politician” becomes “pinded Wolowician” and it usually makes me wonder what the brain is doing in those moment. But I’m not even remotely in tim’s league.
Sorry I missed the why-ku day. Can’t help but add my own days later:
He’s a big train wreck –
Burning, smoldering roadside.
We cannot look away
welcome back, where were you off to?
my laptop did a crash this week so alternate means are in force. the morning search for trail baboon had something other than dale pop up in first position.
http://www.ecotours.com/dest_rwanda.html?gclid=CPSMloWsobMCFdEWMgodr0sARQ
it is an eco tour of mountain gorillas in rwanda
it looks very interesting but the cost is about 7,000 per person so the people in the pictures are either beautiful people with the pants that zip off into shorts or people who got to come along to fill in the empty slots and are friends of the tour operators.
if the trail were to start putting on tours to exotic destinations in our world we could have some fun. machu picchu, hawaii, denmark, two harbors, teddy roosevelt, the heads, san fransisco, amsterdam, china, where else?
hire a local expert and we could be the hosts.
id like rwanda but the purfume wafting out of the roof of the land rover could be an issue.
coo?
I’d love to go to all those exotic destinations. Unfortunately the last week it has been very non-exotic. Just working too much and then going home and putting on my pajamas at 6 p.m. I have a girlfriend who calls this “cocooning”. Program is operating today (in fact I’m at the office answering the 800 line today – not getting paid extra for this duty) so have reached the light at the end of the tunnel.
Jasper Fford alert. “The Last Dragonslayer” has finally arrived in the Hennepin County Library system. And the “Woman Who Died a Lot” is starting off quite enjoyably!
wapa dapa doooooo
Wilmaaaaaaaaa…
My father’s warble has been going koo quite a bit this week. He is making surprising progress in the nursing home, and will be able to come home in about a month. He continues to get OT, PT, and Speech therapy twice a day. He complained to my mom that “they keep asking me my phone number.” Mom asked, “so what is your phone number?” He recited perfectly his brother’s phone number, mixing it up with his own. It is so odd, since he rarely ever phones his brother. The other day he tried to tell my mom that George McDonald, a local eye doctor, came to see him, except he said that George McGovern was his visitor. My mom is quite upbeat and hopeful. She is distressed by the weight he has lost, and says “Renee, he looks so old and wrinkled now, just like a 100 year old man.” I reminded her that he almost is a 100 year old man. He looked like someone in his 70′s before this.
Marvelous post, tim, I’m speechless. Lewis Caroll had nothing on you!
My warble definitely has moments went it goes koo. Some words are just hard for me to remember which means which: dairy and diary come to mind. It takes a deliberate effort, and a slight hesitation before I say it out loud, to get the right word in a sentence. And, it’s not just my warble either; sometimes my brain refuses to retrieve information that I know full well is in there. It’s especially bad when it comes to names.
PJ We’re old enough to call everybody honey and get away with it!
I’ll keep that in mind, Beth-Ann.
I had a shrink tell me that left handed people who do things right handed have to do a brain gymnastic every time the do something and the result is not always calming and and transitional.my guess would be the similar process takes place when your native tongue is other than English and then you translate it over. You still have to go to Danish and translate it to English very time … But I am wrong regularly
The brain is such an amazing thing that processes so much stuff everyday it is likely we miss about 3/4 of what is going on most of the time
Renee i am so happy to hear your dad is doing well. The phone numb name snafu will remind you he is not 100% but thankful he is so well in contrast to wht your worst fears must have been.
B a appreciate your input hun.
tim, the thing about left-handed people is true, in my opinion. I would add that watching a right-handed person demonstrate something and then having to figure out how to do it left-handed can be extremely un-calming. I can remember trying to do that for something I wasn’t very good at…I was near tears.
About the language theory, for me that doesn’t ring true. I think in whichever language I’m speaking, except when it comes to numbers. For whatever reason, I do numbers in Danish which caused much teasing and hilarity in a woman’s group I used to belong to when we played poker. I’ll count to ten in English and then automatically switch to Danish. Not that I don’t know the English words for the higher numbers, but they lack their mathematic qualities. For instance if you asked me what three times forty-two is, I’d translate the numbers to Danish, calculate the result and translate it back to English. Perhaps this is why I’m hopeless when it comes to remembering telephone numbers, just can’t comprehend large numbers in English. Don’t tell anyone, OK?
We don’t have to tell anyone, PJ. You just told the world…or as much of it as reads this blog.
Phone numbers never occurred to me to be big numbers
They are a unique assembly of a bunch of individual numbers
I always memorize by relation of one number to the next not as a whole
OT- Here’s another public service announcement from me; hope you don’t mind.
Next weekend the Dias de los Muertos will be celebrated here on St. Paul’s West Side like few other places in the Twin Cities. I’ve participated in this celebration for years, and it’s really quite something to behold. It’s a cross-cultural experience like few others I can think of. I hope those of you who live in the area and have kids will consider joining in the celebration; heck I’d recommend that you attend even if you can’t use a kid as an excuse.
Here’s a link to a website with more information:
http://diasdelosmuertos.org/
Cudos
That would be koodos.
Yes it would
Daughter thought her warble went koo this week, since she had to memorize and recite 20 lines of Chaucer’s prologue to the Canterbury Tales in the original old English for her AP Literature class.
I question the tendency to kick your ass so severely for having the audacity to take an ap class. It could easily suck the love of the class right out of it
Having a teenager memorize that is cruel and unusual requirements. I’d be thinking of a counter assignment to equally challage a teacher like that. Rebuilding a transmission blindfolded seems about right
She really likes the class, actually, but I am don’t think she will be too thrilled when they have to read Frankenstein, which is, in my opinion, one of the most boring books I ever read.
Oh boy, that would do it!
Having just opened the play ‘Jabberwocky’ today I can tell you my favorite new swear word is Bandersnatch. Go ahead; Try it. Say it loud and with conviction. BANDERSNATCH!
Feels good doesn’t it?
Sure does
BANDERSNATCH! Yeah, that helps.
Huh?????
Chris in Owatonna
What he said.
I have enough trouble handling plain ol’ English!
Try a couple of glasses of wine.
Been doin’ that for 30-some years. Maybe that’s my problem.
Solution: more wine!
The warble is looking seriously kooish in Detroit tonight.
Gibliants kooishingly warble their motor city tigarnts
Oh, those jubilant gibliants!
Nice!
KooKooKaChoo!
Nice
tim – I think you could write a Dr. Seuss-like book, sort of a combination Seuss-Lewis Carrol, but uniquely timish. Your post has rendered me (nearly) speechless.
i would love t do that sometime edith. thanks for the encouragement.
timish talooh! fevrish tyring to figoor ut vats allt his mien. need smore red meat, a cleaver wud be handy or mybe jus anew keybored?
veganish keyboardingly pecking may make it worsenful i fear
Killiant broo, tim. No time to read much,but looks like a lot of fun. The 10-month-old where we are visiting here in Georgia could give you a mun for your runny. The 10-YEAR-old is sneaking around here in a ninja costume… it’s “grandparent heaven”. See you again in a few days…
whistponder you do
blundificant through.
if warble goes koo
jerbest start a gnu.
worth the wait
keyboarding rightness
may imply politeness
but for me it gets in the way
may my brain dictations
by fingertip fluctuations
get waylayed or lost long the way
when the mojo get cooking
all typing forsooken
and the stuff comes flying out on its own
for those grammatical sticklers
i say typing particullars
confine me so leave me alone
the slack that im cut here
regarding what i fear
grammerians find quite alarming
but i try to do it in a way
that would make bevens say
blah blah blah its ok if its charming
the freeform poem listed
for this weekend is twisted
i admit it leaves blanks to respond to
but i offered it up
cause it felt bandersnatch yup
in a trail freedom form i feel fond to
dale let me get by
with this nonsensical try
at bloggish nonleading rhyme sort of
thanks for weekend understanding
hope you enjoyed what im handing
a choice to good language abort of
tomorrow we’ll find
dales back and his mind
steer baboons on their daily quest
although i enjoy it
guest blog to employ it
but dale he sure does it best
Brillig!
Turrific rump, tim.
His poetry is not bad, either.
Snort!
pearfizz crowboy in motoville
maxish carblish ley boonk out.
pearfizz crowboy is that the wine your imbibn?
Wishitwurrr
Boohooly moto wannaz bedonnin fernowsad
Friscolyian erupt beherdlytonight fin
hee hee
‘night, boons.
Utoo