03.13.2006
Squinkier than Thou
Is there any flower as ugly as the daffodil? I don’t think so. If you were here, and if you defended the homely daffodil, I would hem and haw and allow as to how I am perhaps confusing that noble flower with some other daffodil-colored marvel of nature. But between you and me and the bedpost, I really mean the daffodil.
You’ll have to forgive my haste. I am still possessed by the three squids, although the squid of orange-juice tummy is looking suspiciously like chocolate-pudding-and-mashed-potato tummy these days. They are engrossed in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” right now, so I can talk a little bit. How are you? I am fine except for the whole squid thing. I made a mental list of all my problems last week so I could begin to address them before I die. It was a bit of a kick in the pants to realize how many of my problems are really other people’s problems in disguise. Tricksy problems. But there’s nothing that can’t be solved without perseverance and the proper amount of mental telepathy.
For example, what if I changed Goblin’s name to Lydia Bumpersticker, Cabbage Patch Doll™ Enthusiast?
posted by
David at 11:52 PM
You are SO right about daffodils! I thought I was the only one who thought like that. We should form a club. Personally,I blame Wordsworth.
I am sure all this threatened name changing is terrible bad for the Goblin-psyche. I mean I know identity is only provisional at the best of times but you are really rubbing her nose in it.
Or are you just crabby because you have a cold?
posted by: campbell on 03.14.2006 at 6:30 AM
No, no, he's SQUIDDY... weren't you listening?
posted by: jwer on 03.14.2006 at 7:24 AM
No, to be honest I wasn't. I find it saves a lot of time. And anyway I thought he was SQUIDDY because he had a cold.
posted by: campbell on 03.14.2006 at 9:13 AM
Well, that's probably a good policy.
To be honest, he's always seemed kind of squiddy to me... of course, it's possible I'm just given to perceiving squiddiness even in its obvious absence...
posted by:
jwer on 03.14.2006 at 10:41 AM
I don't like daffodils either. But jonquils are my favorite. If you changed Goblin’s name to Lydia Bumpersticker, Cabbage Patch Doll™ Enthusiast, I think it would be quite a mouthful when you called her and it would definitely cause some social issues as well.
posted by:
Curtis on 03.14.2006 at 2:01 PM
I fear that Goblin re-naming is becoming the de facto tagline for these posts.
posted by:
David on 03.14.2006 at 2:08 PM
Curtis: to adapt someone or other, wittier and deader than I (am), "A jonquil is just a daffodil with a college education.
posted by: campbell on 03.15.2006 at 5:01 AM
Oh, come now, you must be joking. Or perhaps delirious from all the squids. Getta loada this daffodil!:
http://www.xentrik.net/freegraphics/photos/flowers/daffodil.jpg
Homely? I THINK NOT!
Besides, it reminds me of that flower that Willy Wonka (in the original, please, thank you) picks up and holds like a cup and saucer, drinking from and then biting into. So they're beautiful *and* delicious!
posted by: Rindy on 03.15.2006 at 11:09 AM
Didn't we discuss letting people stick things in your sinuses, and squids, and prophylactics? Didn't we? Because I think we did. Which means this is all your fault.
posted by:
goblinbox on 03.16.2006 at 12:11 PM
I don't understand this website!!!!!
posted by: Jillian on 03.21.2006 at 2:55 PM
I hadn't checked in here in a week or more and I call my own spawn "the squids." Imagine my surprise to discover you suddenly had children. Imagine my relief to keep reading. I hope the tentacles release you soon.
posted by:
Deana on 03.24.2006 at 1:15 PM
Campbell: Well, I have bronchitis now, so you can imagine how cranky I am.
Jwer: You are bizarre.
Campbell again: I hate you.
Jwer again: I hate you more.
Curtis: Nothing that can't be overcome by love.
David: It's just a little something I do.
Campbell: I love you again.
Rindy: NOW who's delirious?
Goblinbox: You call showing me a poster with a bad diagram a DISCUSSION?
Jillian: Join the very large club.
Deana: I had a friend named Deana when I was a child. If she had children, I imagine she would call them squids, as well. She wanted to be Elvis when she grew up.
posted by:
David on 03.26.2006 at 9:32 AM
I had an Elvis themed bridal shower. Deanas love them some Elvis. And my squids can sing most of Mojo Nixon's "Elvis is Everywhere." I'm sure we're long lost buds.
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