YSaC, Vol. 1239: I’ll take a La Vita Nuova with extra melancholy, please.

2012 April 26

What if? – m4w – 22


Alone! As am I, as are you. Cold despite the warmth and easing into the comfort of a woolen sweater that is slightly too large and we have not an undershirt. But if we weren’t and if we did? What wonders we could attain! Each moment as breathless as space itself. Every lie believed and every secret kept. A moment apart, a sojourn to Mesault’s cell. Reunification; a thousand walls broken, a thousand “Ich bin ein Berliner!”‘s. Woe to the fool that wanders alone without Virgilian guide and without the consideration of Beatrice. Woe to me who will not be eating pizza and exchanging Get Hyphy t-shirts on the morrow! Except maybe I will order the pizza. But not! Not indeed! the one in the shape of a heart! Rather the unbroken ring of cheese filled crust that has no beginning and has no end much akin to my servility to Melancholy. Toppings mean nothing, if there is no sauce underneath. I am the cheese. And the cheese, the cheese stands alone.

Wait, I think I got this. I think what they’re saying is that they are finally facing up to the reality that East Germans wear ill-fitting clothes, and that the delivery girl Beatrice keeps stealing their pizza.

Thanks, EclecticBlue!

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  1. 2012 April 26
    CapnMac permalink

    If I were awake at all, I’d be hungry.
    William Shakespeare’s birthday was Tuesday, too.
    This next sentence needs eight
    Syllables for some reason.

    Punch-drunk on fatigue am I
    Facing an hour’s drive among idiots
    And the uncaring;
    To face employ of no great joy
    And less satisfaction
    (and of lucre, none at all).

    I must needs will eschew
    Nerdy reference to Foucalt–rebellion
    Against Rene’s cartesian grid of streets
    I am to traverse, perchance to
    Such fate as awaits.

    Adores: 8
    • 2012 April 26

      True Story: When my daughter Alexia was a teen, she and I had some difficult times. She asked me for some money one day, and as I could give it, I was getting it out, but I said jokingly, “Filthy lucre.” She burst into tears and said, “You’re always calling me names!” The entire family laughed at her, and very soon she was laughing as well. It became one of her favorite incidents to recall. 8)

      Adores: 2
  2. 2012 April 26
    Ralph permalink

    Where are the syntax police when you need them? Sparky mixes Virgil with Robert Cormier, is looking for a Sparkette sans saucy, and brings us a shrubbery of mixed metaphors. Like yesterday’s thread, this needs a Macbeth reference: Cheese it! The copse!

    Adores: 5
  3. 2012 April 26

    Whoa, dude, that is so deep. I’m going to have to borrow that for my first-year comp class. (takes another hit) Oh, yeah, and “the cheese stands alone” is going to be my new catch phrase.

    Adores: 5
    • 2012 April 26

      Waaaait a minute. How can the cheese stand alone if it doesn’t have any feet? Or maybe… duuuuuude! What if the cheese IS the feet? That would explain why it smells the way it does! OMG my mind, man, my mind has just been blown wiiiide open, maaaannn. This is some good stuff, where’d you get it?

      Adores: 2
  4. 2012 April 26

    What if?

    As if.

    Adores: 10
  5. 2012 April 26
    DigitalAxis permalink

    Oh, Markov Chain Monte Carlo synthetic text, how I love you…

    Adores: 3
  6. 2012 April 26
    wanda permalink

    You simply cannot start a M4W listing with a wool sweater against bare skin analogy. Nope. It is just not done. I’m uncomfortable and sweaty at the outset of reading this.

    Adores: 7
    • 2012 April 26

      And it starts to unravel from there. Here, Wanda, pull this string.

      Adores: 3
    • 2012 April 26

      Unless it’s cashmere or one of those fluffy mohair ones that make you feel like you’re wearing a kitten.

      Adores: 7
      • 2012 April 26
        kelli permalink

        How often do you wear kittens ghostie?

        Adores: 8
        • 2012 April 26

          Depends on how flexible your definition of “kitten” is. Firefly has developed the “endearing” habit of jumping on my shoulders to show how much she loves me and will growl and dig in her claws when I try to remove her, but she’s not really a kitten anymore. She’s also more like a prickly scarf than a sweater.

          Adores: 4
        • 2012 April 26
          One Moving Violation permalink

          Kittens make great earmuffs. Especially if you get them both purring.

          Adores: 0
      • 2012 April 26
        Brer Fox permalink

        Kid: Mr. Fox, How many moes does it take to make a mohair sweater that is slightly to large?
        Mr Fox: Let’s find out. One, Two, Three…Chomp! nom nom nom… Three.
        Anouncer: How many moes does it take to make a mohair sweater that is slightly to large? The world may never know.

        Adores: 1
        • 2012 April 26
          Not-a-[censored] Lion permalink

          There once was a stylish young moe,
          who did his hair in a ‘fro.
          the shearers, they came,
          and he left them in shame.
          Cuz a naked moe can’t get no mo’.

          Adores: 2
        • 2012 April 26
          wanda permalink

          I’m in the middle of merging my household (and adult cat) into another household with 2 cats . I am wearing cathair right now from chin to toe.

          Funny…”merging”. It was the most romantic word I could come up with over the growls and hisses.

          Adores: 3
    • 2012 April 26
      P-rex permalink

      “M4W”

      What is that? Manky for Whorish?

      Adores: 0
    • 2012 April 26
      P-rex permalink

      “M4W”

      What is that? Manky for Whorish?

      Last time I went on the World Wide Web, I got propositioned by an L-Mactan.
      I don’t wander to far from home anymore.

      Adores: 1
      • 2012 April 26
        P-rex permalink

        Oh my! I’ve been duped.

        Adores: 4
  7. 2012 April 26
    mud "" slicker permalink

    Herman Cain really needs to give up vying for a place in the GOP presidential race!

    Ez-becky-becky-becky-stan, indeed!

    Adores: 3
  8. 2012 April 26

    This makes me think of Hamlet’s “To no or not to be” speech had Shakespeare been on shrooms.

    Adores: 1
    • 2012 April 26

      Better yet, Benedick’s monologue from Much Ado About Nothing.

      Adores: 2
      • 2012 April 26
        Bianchi Sound permalink

        It’s from the little known sequel, “A F*$k-Ton More About Nothing.”

        Adores: 11
    • 2012 April 26
      P-rex permalink

      Two bees or not two bees?
      Honey, that aint a problem.

      A bee, by any other name
      would still taste as sweet.

      What flight through yonder window makes?
      It is a bee!

      Adores: 2
      • 2012 April 26
        P-rex permalink

        That’s from Shakesbear’s “Much Ado About Honey”.

        Adores: 1
      • 2012 April 26
        P-rex permalink

        Sorry, got one of the quotes wrong. It should be “Hey! What flight through yonder meadow makes.”

        My knowledge of the Ursine Bard is limited.

        Adores: 1
      • 2012 April 26

        I caught myself a baby bumblebee;
        Won’t my mommy be so proud of me?
        I caught myself a baby bumblebee;
        Ouch! It stung me!

        I’m mashing up my baby bumblebee;
        Won’t my mommy be so proud of me?
        I’m mashing up my baby bumblebee;
        Ewww, it’s all over me!

        I’m licking up my baby bumblebee;
        Won’t my mommy be so proud of me?
        I’m licking up my baby bumblebee;
        Mmm, it’s inside of me!

        Adores: 2
  9. 2012 April 26
    CapnMac permalink

    [topic veer]
    So, I’m driving today, and stop at one of the three lights along my way.
    There’s some sort of charitable organization which garners subscribers to help someone named Max.
    In the modern way this is fashioned as “Mile 4 Max.”
    The Lexus SUV with the magnetic signs proclaiming that the event is nigh, sadly, read somewhat differently:

    [medium letters]April 28 2012
    [really big letters]M4M
    [small letters]Miles for Max

    [back to topic]

    Adores: 8
    • 2012 April 26
      One Moving Violation permalink

      That’s about as funny as the billboard I’ve seen. (I can’t remember which state or highway)
      It says: HO MADE PIES!

      Adores: 4
  10. 2012 April 26

    Lovecraft needs to give up on the online dating thing.

    Adores: 6
  11. 2012 April 26

    This would make a kick-ass dramatic reading.

    Adores: 5
  12. 2012 April 26

    Congrats, Taco, for your extra large entry in the box today, and EB for the submission! Hooray!

    Adores: 3
  13. 2012 April 26

    [corey] I’ve never heard of it, but apparently “Hyphy” is a real thing. (In the sense that it has a Wikipedia entry.) [/corey]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphy

    Adores: 1
  14. 2012 April 26
    Angel permalink

    There’s a narrator on some nature show that reads in fragments as opposed to sentences. It’s not David Attenborough or Alex Baldwin; it’s a different man on a different series. It is SO distracting.
    “And now. The majestic moose takes a stroll. Down to the water’s edge. Where he first tests for danger. By surveying his surroundings.” Arrrgh!

    Adores: 2
    • 2012 April 27
      Angel permalink

      It’s “Wild Russia.” Beautiful cinematography, distracting narrator.

      Adores: 0
    • 2012 April 28
      LurkRealClose permalink

      Yes, well. Moose are. Like that.

      Adores: 0
  15. 2012 April 26

    But, soft! what cheese doth Sparky speak today?
    He is alone. As am I, as are you.
    Arise, Sparkette, and steal the moldering cheese,
    Who is already hard and crumbling away,
    That thou her maid art far more sauce than cheese:
    Be not her maid, since she is moldy;
    Her outer crust is but sick and green
    And none but fools do eat it; cast it off.
    It is my pizza, O, it is my cheese!
    O, that she knew she were!

    Adores: 5
  16. 2012 April 26
    kelli permalink

    Translation: I’m alone and I might order pizza. Please love me for my pretentious drivel.

    Adores: 10
    • 2012 April 26

      This is what happens when lonely English majors get the munchies.

      Adores: 3
      • 2012 April 26
        One Moving Violation permalink

        What happens when lonely English privates get the munchies? Doughnuts and bananas?
        Oh wait, maybe thats lonely English primates.

        Adores: 0
      • 2012 April 26
        Windrose permalink

        And the hornies.

        Adores: 0
  17. 2012 April 26
    One Moving Violation permalink

    He’s Sparky on CL,
    He’s Sparky on CL.
    Oh no, He’s full of woe,
    He’s Sparky on CL.

    His sweater’s made of wool,
    His sweater’s made of wool.
    Oh no, it’s itching so,
    His sweater’s made of wool.

    He wants to order pie,
    He wants to order pie.
    A pizza pie so he won’t cry,
    He wants to order pie.

    What wonders we attain,
    What wonders we attain.
    If we were upon the spur,
    What wonders we attain.

    If we have no sauce,
    If we have no sauce.
    It matters not what is on top,
    If we have no sauce.

    The cheese stands alone,
    The cheese stands alone.
    I am the cheese you know,
    The cheese stands alone.

    Adores: 4
  18. 2012 April 26
    P-rex permalink

    “What if?”

    What if? What if??!!
    It’s IF. Now apologize to Mr. Fractal or he might not cover your band.

    Adores: 4
  19. 2012 April 27
    Windrose permalink

    Taco, NOW it’s over. Punchity Punch Punch!

    Good Morning, Wild Russia!

    Adores: 0

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