Tacklin' the Onerous
This mornin' I, Ray arose troubled. For that onerous task Crumby drug me in on commenced at last yesterday and we labored much on it (the onerous task), relatively speakin'. So even asleep, I was troubled (for that onerous task intruded also upon my quality time reclinin' on the Bosom of the Goddess). So at the nonce of awakenin', and after completin' an ablution er two, I went straight off fer a visit with my very nice lady friend, Ms. Merriam Webster, who happens to know a great deal about spells.
And I says to Merriam, for we are on familiar terms, "Merriam, I am much troubled on the spellin' of the spell, own-a-russ." And Merriam, who is used to me on account of us bein' familiar, says "Well Ray, easy that, let's go look own-a-russ up."
So that's what we did no, and there was own-a-russ where I had not necessarily predicted it would be, phonetically. With the correct spell impressed then upon me, I began to peruse the attendant spells and my gaze was attracted to a picture, what some spell a thumbnail picture on account of the small size of the picture, of a onager. The spell attendant upon the picture is "a small pale colored kiang with a broad dorsal stripe".
Whoa! kiang? So after I surreptitiously checked out the nearby spell "onanism" I says to Merriam, "Merriam, whut the heck is a kiang?" And Merriam says, "Easy that Ray" and directs my attention to that particular spell, kiang, "an Asian wild ass (Equus hemionus)usually with reddish back and sides and white underparts, muzzle and legs". "Hmmmm", I thought, "that is a donkey of fair vestiture", and I determined that scant time would pass before I Ray sought out an image of a kiang, fer no thumbnail of a kiang was apparent, nearby.
The visit with Merriam concluded we bade our adieus, and I Ray commenced once more to ruminate on the onerous task and how, throughout the long ages, it has been the task of Druids to advise the rich and powerful and just how onerous that task has become.
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Ray! Get in here Ray! I require some hep!
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Alas, my bosom companion requires, some hep.
And I says to Merriam, for we are on familiar terms, "Merriam, I am much troubled on the spellin' of the spell, own-a-russ." And Merriam, who is used to me on account of us bein' familiar, says "Well Ray, easy that, let's go look own-a-russ up."
So that's what we did no, and there was own-a-russ where I had not necessarily predicted it would be, phonetically. With the correct spell impressed then upon me, I began to peruse the attendant spells and my gaze was attracted to a picture, what some spell a thumbnail picture on account of the small size of the picture, of a onager. The spell attendant upon the picture is "a small pale colored kiang with a broad dorsal stripe".
Whoa! kiang? So after I surreptitiously checked out the nearby spell "onanism" I says to Merriam, "Merriam, whut the heck is a kiang?" And Merriam says, "Easy that Ray" and directs my attention to that particular spell, kiang, "an Asian wild ass (Equus hemionus)usually with reddish back and sides and white underparts, muzzle and legs". "Hmmmm", I thought, "that is a donkey of fair vestiture", and I determined that scant time would pass before I Ray sought out an image of a kiang, fer no thumbnail of a kiang was apparent, nearby.
The visit with Merriam concluded we bade our adieus, and I Ray commenced once more to ruminate on the onerous task and how, throughout the long ages, it has been the task of Druids to advise the rich and powerful and just how onerous that task has become.
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Ray! Get in here Ray! I require some hep!
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Alas, my bosom companion requires, some hep.
posted by ray pistrum at Tuesday, January 31, 2006
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