And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, April 11, 2018, brought to you by Purridise Kitty Kennel and Walking Service, "Your kitty's other best friend when you have to be away." Kayly "Kat-Mom" Knutson, 9-year-old CKO, Chief Kitty Officer, Elmer Knutson Family Farms, rural Swift.
April 11 is the 101st day of the year with 271 days remaining until the end of the year, and 355 days until April Fools Day.
Earth/Moon Almanac for April 11, 2018
Sunrise: 6:41am; Sunset: 8:09pm
Moonrise: 5:05am Moonset: 3:16pm
Temperature Almanac for April 11, 2018
Average Record Today
High 48 78 40
Low 26 0 26
April 11 Celebrations
National Barber Shop Quartet Day
National Cheese Fondue Day
National Eight Track Tape Day
National Pet Day
National Submarine Day
Notable historic April 11 events, literary or otherwise
Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act, 1968
April 11 author/artist birthdays
David Zeisberger, Czech-American clergyman and missionary, 1721; not a particularly notable day
Words I looked up this week:
austral, bogard, diffident, essentiate, gravlax, oblast, scansion, seriatim
Interesting terms I encountered this week include:
brainer [opposite of no-brainer]
Nerd harder! [a mandate for IT service providers to solve problems that management cannot - a form of authoritative blaming]
Today's edition of Wannaskan Almanac Word-Wednesday considers the words that enable evil thinking.
April 11 is the 101st day of the year with 271 days remaining until the end of the year, and 355 days until April Fools Day.
Earth/Moon Almanac for April 11, 2018
Sunrise: 6:41am; Sunset: 8:09pm
Moonrise: 5:05am Moonset: 3:16pm
Temperature Almanac for April 11, 2018
Average Record Today
High 48 78 40
Low 26 0 26
April 11 Celebrations
National Barber Shop Quartet Day
National Cheese Fondue Day
National Eight Track Tape Day
National Pet Day
National Submarine Day
Notable historic April 11 events, literary or otherwise
Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act, 1968
April 11 author/artist birthdays
David Zeisberger, Czech-American clergyman and missionary, 1721; not a particularly notable day
Words I looked up this week:
austral, bogard, diffident, essentiate, gravlax, oblast, scansion, seriatim
Interesting terms I encountered this week include:
brainer [opposite of no-brainer]
Nerd harder! [a mandate for IT service providers to solve problems that management cannot - a form of authoritative blaming]
Today's edition of Wannaskan Almanac Word-Wednesday considers the words that enable evil thinking.
There would be no Othello without the darker side of Iago. Dickens could not have achieved Scrooge's moving transformation and redemption without first vividly depicting his self-centered temperament. The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce, is a necessary resource for authors with sunny dispositions, like Wannaskan Mom, when crafting characters across the spectrum of adult naughtiness. A few of the shorter 998 total definitions include the following.
Accident, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.
April Fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly [for John].
Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.
Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth.
Dog, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations, takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival - an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase an idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition [for Monday's Child].
Edible, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Ghost, n. An outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
Impenitence, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
Justice, n. A commodity which in more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable, and the oppressive. Each is all three.
Neighbor, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us obedient [thinking of the Chairman and Thor, here].
Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
Piracy, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
Quill, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goos and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen [or keyboard], is wielded by the same everlasting Presence [for all of us].
Rational, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience, and reflection.
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Twice, adv. Once too often.
Usage, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.
Vote, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country [alas].
For the record, and in closing, April is National Poetry Month and National Humor Month, so,
Accident, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.
April Fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly [for John].
Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.
Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth.
Dog, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations, takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival - an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase an idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition [for Monday's Child].
Edible, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Ghost, n. An outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
Impenitence, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
Justice, n. A commodity which in more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable, and the oppressive. Each is all three.
Neighbor, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us obedient [thinking of the Chairman and Thor, here].
Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
Piracy, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
Quill, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goos and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen [or keyboard], is wielded by the same everlasting Presence [for all of us].
Rational, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience, and reflection.
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Twice, adv. Once too often.
Usage, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.
Vote, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country [alas].
For the record, and in closing, April is National Poetry Month and National Humor Month, so,
Be better than yesterday, learn a new word today, and to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow.
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