Two small thoughts
Thought the first:
On the ride home this evening, reading Lynn Truss's lovely "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", the thought struck me that I should write a brace of romantic novels.
The first would be standard fare, ending with the happily requited lovers gazing into the sunset: diminuendo into a final loaded ellipsis, freighted with suggestive nudge-nudgery.
The sequel, of course, would be titled "..."
Thought the second:
Helping Charlie with his science project tonight, he wondered why pipe cleaners are called pipe cleaners. This led to a discussion in which we tried to come up with other examples of things still in everyday use whose names refer back to functions long since rendered obsolete.
I feel sure there's a big category of objects here, but both the boy and I were having a "hard-of-thinking" night and failed to come up with a single related example.
There. Told you they were small thoughts.
On the ride home this evening, reading Lynn Truss's lovely "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", the thought struck me that I should write a brace of romantic novels.
The first would be standard fare, ending with the happily requited lovers gazing into the sunset: diminuendo into a final loaded ellipsis, freighted with suggestive nudge-nudgery.
The sequel, of course, would be titled "..."
Thought the second:
Helping Charlie with his science project tonight, he wondered why pipe cleaners are called pipe cleaners. This led to a discussion in which we tried to come up with other examples of things still in everyday use whose names refer back to functions long since rendered obsolete.
I feel sure there's a big category of objects here, but both the boy and I were having a "hard-of-thinking" night and failed to come up with a single related example.
There. Told you they were small thoughts.
