April 1st: Sorry
A worried somebody phoned me and ended up calling me a very rude word. Thank you to those lovely, concerned citizens who emailed to make sure I wasn’t being waterboarded. Now, obviously, would be the best time for the authorities to have me disappeared.
Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 1:56pm under A few administrative notices
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If there is a blog prize for April Fool, you have my vote.
As this is April’s fool day, I thought I should share these “real” foolish comments from the Interwebs, in the spirit of it being the “silly day”.
That was sweet.
Hope you took it down before midday, though.
Rochenko’s last blog post..Peaks and Preferences
I laughed, but it did have an air of credibility when I opened it. Very good.
Colin Campbell’s last blog post..April Fools Wrap Up
Excellent.
I just wish I had seen it. Would I have fell for it???
Also, that’s my tweet in the screen-grab!
Aaron Heath’s last blog post..are our champions of industry idiots?
You mean you haven’t been extraordinarily rendited? Putting the champagne back on ice then.
Larry Teabag’s last blog post..Feeling a bit dusty?
Rendited? You made that up, Teabag.
[I submitted another comment - did it get eaten?]
[Nope, the comment moderation is being a bit strict. You're there now.]
I just looked it up in my dictionary, and you’re right – there is no “rendited”. The verb seems to be “render”, though this also has the more common verbal noun “rendering”. But what’s (vaguely, if you’re a geek) interesting is that neither “render” nor “rendition” are given the meaning which goes these days with “extraordinary”. So it must be a Pentagon neologism, which I hadn’t realised.
However “render” does have the meaning “process[ing of] animal byproducts into more useful materials, or more narrowly to the rendering of whole animal fatty tissue into purified fats like lard or tallow”, which is what I meant in this case.
Larry Teabag’s last blog post..Feeling a bit dusty?
Hmmmm, fatty tissue.