The tendency over the last decade or two for the Painfully Correct to refer to every granfalloon as a "community" usually makes me don my waffle-stompers and look menacingly at puppies.
Not today, though:
… zombies (aka the "non-living community") … (source [S$])
Update:
2007-01-23 09:27
This just in, from Natalie Angier's entertaining article on time in today's NYT:
Far more action is going on below the surface, in the subatomic community.
10 comments:
the online librarian contingent refers to itself as the "biblioblogosphere," for what that's worth. :)
I like it! I would also like the more streamlined "bibliogosphere."
Looking up granfalloon at Dictionary.com you get this example of usage:
To study a granfalloon you take a toy balloon and remove the outer skin.
Your use of "granfalloon" in the post reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask you: Have you read Kurt Vonnegut? Do you have an opinion of him?
Oops, I posted that as "Verso" by mistake. I usually post here as Twin.
Yes I have and yes I do: KV has long been one of my favorites.
Same here. Not to get all nerdy or anything, but do you have a favorite, or favorites, among his books?
If I had to pick one, I think it would be God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. But I'd hate to have to pick just one. Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, The Sirens of Titan, and Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons are all right up there, too.
What about you?
Hard to say, but I guess I would pick Galapagos, Hocus Pocus, Slapstick, or the first of his books I ever read, Breakfast of Champions. It's one of those things where it seems whichever one I read last is my favorite.
That's a good way of putting it. I think the only thing that he's written that I didn't love was Player Piano.
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