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Friday, May 15, 2009The LOLcat version of In Great Waters
(A LOLcat, for those of you unfamiliar with the word, is a picture of a cat with a funny caption.)
In any event, my editor sent me this link. If you're read In Great Waters, you may see why this is funny. And if you haven't, well, you'll just have to buy a copy to get the joke, won't you?
Comments:
"But I CAAAYYUNNT read it until the end of October in this country!!" hapax whines.
(unless I want to shell out great gobs of cash for overseas shipping, which I might end up doing anyways, to get the much prettier UK cover art) (verification word: trang = one of the pointy bits on the end of a spork)
What hapax said. Pity us who live across the pond!
(VW: "myedgen" - a new type of easy-to-handle hedge trimmer. As seen on late-night TV. Also doubles as a food processor.)
I'm guessing it just means that if you're a merrow--or just raised by a merrow--you're not going to be moving all that comfortably when you don't have water pressure supporting and resisting you on all sides...
Isn't a "merrow" what we call a "zucchini" on this side of the Atlantic?
It would make a wonderful variant on the "feral child" story: Young Freddie wanders away from a family picnic, only to be discovered years later in a field of wild squash, having been raised to think himself a vegetable. Can he be coaxed back into accepting his humanity? Or will he forever remain indistinguishable from every other teenager? [verification word: logir -- what I growl when I can't remember my login]
LOLcat: Hah!
(also, *smirk* because I've read it!) (also, yes, the UK cover art is prettier.) @hapax: Hah! also. If "merrow" doesn't mean "marrow," then it ought to, just for the sake of that comment. Word: isomp. A true/false category in the parental database, indicating whether a particular teenager Is On Maternal Probation and had better shape up.
I *thought* merrow was the proper term for merman/mermaid/etc....At least, I thought that's where the etymology came from. At the very least, it comes from Ireland and possibly Scotland...{commits seppuku}
Cut&paste from good ol' Wikipedia:
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"Merrow (from Gaelic murĂșch) or Murrough (Galloway) is the Scottish and Irish Gaelic equivalent of the mermaid and mermen of other cultures. These beings are said to appear as human from the waist up but have the body of a fish from the waist down. They have a gentle, modest, affectionate and benevolent disposition." So there you are. Word: bunog. A dear young bunny rabbit. << Home ArchivesJuly 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 March 2007 May 2007 July 2007 October 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 December 2009 January 2010 February 2010 March 2010 April 2010 August 2010 September 2010 November 2010 January 2011 May 2011 June 2011 November 2011 December 2011 January 2012 February 2012 March 2012 April 2012 May 2012 June 2012 July 2012 August 2012 September 2012 October 2012 November 2012 December 2012 January 2013 March 2013 April 2013 May 2013 June 2013 July 2013 August 2013 September 2013 October 2013 March 2014 October 2021 June 2022 |
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