And here is the April Fools Day edition of Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, April 1, 2020, the 14th Wednesday of the year, the 92nd day of the year, with 274 days remaining.
Nordhem Lunch: Closed until further notice.
Earth/Moon Almanac for April 1, 2020
Sunrise: 7:00am; Sunset: 7:55pm; 3 minutes, 34 seconds more daylight today
Moonrise: 11:50pm; Moonset: 3:31am, waxing gibbous
Temperature Almanac for April 1, 2020
Average Record Today
High 43 71 48
Low 22 -18 32
April 1 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
- April Fools Day
- Childhelp National Day of Hope
- National One Cent Day
- National Sourdough Bread Day
- National Walking Day
April 1 Word Riddle
What do you call a hammer bought in April 1st?*
April 1 Pun
God creates the worm: Hello little buddy!
Worm: Thank you for your worm welcome!!!
God creates the bird.
April 1 Roseau Times-Region Headline:
Wannaska Mom Closes Homeschool
April 1 Notable Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day
- 1778 New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the $ symbol.
- 1854 Hard Times begins serialization in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words.
- 1857 Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man.
- 1891 Paul Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti.
- 1875 Edgar Wallace.
- 1920 Toshiro Mifune.
- 1929 Milan Kundera.
- 1932 Jiri Smutny.
- 1940 Wangari Maathai.
- 1979 Bart Simpson.
Words-I-Looked-Up-This-Week Writer's Challenge
Make a single sentence (or poem) from the following words:
- aroint: an authoritative command meaning “begone” or “leave me alone”.
- cockshut: twilight. Frequently as a modifier or more fully in cockshut light, cockshut time, etc.
- deipnosophist: a person skilled in table talk.
- foofaraw: a great deal of fuss or attention given to a minor matter.
- incabinate: to enclose in a cabin; to confine or sequester; to seclude or seek isolation.
- moar: an intentional misspelling of more, used online as a humorous demand.
- peignoir: a woman’s light dressing gown or negligee.
- quafftide: happy hour.
- solivagant: one who wanders alone.
- turdiform: of, like, or resembling any of the songbirds of the family Turdinae (thrush).
April 1, 2020 Word-Wednesday Feature
Travel Words
WannaskaWriter recently chronicled his epic travels with Chairman Joe across the state line just days prior to Governor Walz’s stay-at-home executive order. The Point has begun a Quarantine Journal: Notes from the Inside, where the magazines quarantined contributors chronicle their experiences staying at home. The New York Times recently featured the Opinion Page piece, “It’s Starting to Feel Like a Pressure Cooker in This House", where readers shared their own experiences with family.
What better time to plan your dream vacation and learn a few non-English words to use on your forein travels to Europe.
brat warts: term used to order German sausage made from veal, beef, or most commonly pork.
bun wheat: term to bid someone good night in French-speaking countries.
crap suzette: a thin dessert pancake with a brandy and citrus sauce, usually set aflame when served by a French person.
dairy air: the French term for a person’s buttocks.
decadent: an Italian person having only ten teeth.
dire rear: a passing bowel movement issue if one's brat warts have gone bad.
grassy ass: a polite Spanish expression used when acknowledging a gift, service, or compliment, or accepting or refusing an offer.
John say paw: the French words for I dunno.
From A Year with Rilke, April 1 Entry
The Olive Grove (II), from New Poems.
They would say an angel cam.
Why angel? What came was night,
moving indifferently amidst the trees.
The disciples stirred in their dreams.
Why an angel? What cam was night.
The night that came was like any other,
dogs sleeping, stones lying there—
like any other night of grief,
to be survived till morning comes.
Angels do not answer prayers like that,
nor do they let eternity break through.
Nothing protects those who lose themselves.
Be better than yesterday,
learn a new word today,
try to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow,
and write when you have the time.
*April tool!
ReplyDeleteThe robins are back in fine turdiform.
I wish they ate virus along with their worm.
“Get back to work!” They sing. “It’s just a foofaraw.
“Hug your friends, make some money, spend evermoar.”
“Aroint! Silly birds! The Union’s in terrible state,
“For Tom Dick and Harry must incabinate.
“A long, lusty quafftide’s my one sole delight.
“I slip into my peignoir at cockshut’s first light.
“But my deipnosophistic skills and my license to rant,
“Are going to waste, ‘cause my fans got up and solivagant.”
Turdiform: Robin redbreast and kin
Foofaraw: mountain out of molehill
Moar: more’s wacky cousin
Aroint: get out!
Incabinate: get the fever
Quafftide: happy hour
Peignoir: pjs
Cockshut: twilight
Deipnosophist: supper time bull slinger
Solvigant: lonely wanderer
Love the snow!
ReplyDeleteThe foreign vocab is priceless. Encore! Encore! Maestro!
ReplyDeleteThe Chairman's ever-so-timely pram is elegant as ever. I'm wondering if he could start a news feed through his weekly WW contribution? There, the gauntlet is down. JPSavage