Recently, it’s been like this…

Words of the day

General February 14th, 2008

I subscribe to two Word of the Day (WotD) mailing lists. One from dictionary.com, and the other from urbandictionary.com (ie: the English you should use and the English you really do use.) They mail out at different times overnight but wind up next to each other in my inbox in the morning. I enjoy it when they juxtapose themselves. I’m sure they’re not planned to coincide as often as they ironicly do.

For example, yesterday, the urbandictionary.com WotD was “Viagrate” — to imbue with lasting vigor. (Verbifying the popular ED drug.)

It was closely followed by dictionary.com’s perdurable — very durable; lasting; continuing long.

I giggled a little. Happy Valentine’s Day (VD) all!

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Foellinger auditorium seating up for bid

General February 14th, 2008

“The University is requesting bids for auditorium seating for Foellinger Auditorium in Urbana, Illinois.” Thank goodness. Those seats are really uncomfortable; worse in the balconies. I watched U-52 (or whatever that boat/sub movie was,) there as an undergrad and couldn’t move after being in those hard seats for 2 hours.

For Ben Folds, I’ll stand.