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Merry Christmas, wordjunkies! And happy whatever else you celebrate if you celebrate something else. Happy Giftmas for those that celebrate the gifts and booze, and happy Festivus for those with 1990 goggles on who still think Seinfeld was funny. :D

For those of us not fighting this silly War on Christmas, I hope you all have a fantastic day with family and friends, or at least a nice day by yourself avoiding the whole thing.


I have no word for you today, but something a little extra special - a Christmas poem, written by yours truely!


T'was the night before Christmas
and all around Earth
no creature was stirring
for what it was worth.

With sugar-hyped children
asleep in their beds
and visions of Santy Claus
Bouncing 'round little heads

From under the world
there came a great howl
as ancient old evil
arose for a prowl

The dread lord of madness
Cthulhu, his name
prowled 'round the Earth
To chew spicy brain

To rend and to tear
And devour souls, all
the dread lord Cthulhu
was having a ball.

Quick as a lick
He nommed, and was gone!
Back into deep space
Where evil did spawn.

So beware you, this Christmas
Of dreaming to bargain, for
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu
R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Sorry about missing last week. As you all know, this time of year is always a bitch! Zetetic [ze-tet'ik] adjective or noun Definition Proceeding by inquiry; a search or investigation; a skeptical seeker of knowledge. A term originally used to refer to Pyrrhonists, a group of ancient Greek skeptics, it has come to mean both the process of inquiry and one who so proceeds. A zetetic is thus a sort of intellectual agnostic who, while seeking greater truths, is always wary of falsehood. Etymology Greek zetetikos, from zeteein, 'to seek.' Usage Sandra always used to refer to herself, in a rather grandiose manner, that she was a zetetic - a seeker of truth and wisdom, and wary of being mislead. I, however, in a zetetic manner rather figured her to just be an argumentative bitch. True story, except the Sandra of the tale isn't smart enough to know what a zetetic is!

contretemps [KON-truh-tahn; Fr. kawntruh-TAHN]

noun
an inopportune occurrence; an embarrassing mischance

An unforeseen event that disrupts the normal course of things; an inopportune occurrence.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/contretemps


I congratulated myself on being the first in line to speak to the new boss to recommend myself and my abilities. Unfortunately a contretemps in the form of a fly buzzing into my mouth as I opened it to speak kept me from giving this boss my name, and Eliza behind me got the promotion.