Monday, 25 February 2008

2005_11_01_archive



Footnotes of note.

The first in what is sure to be an arhythmically occurring feature:

I'm trying to work out how this makes sense as a noun meaning "the

product of a bowel movement." This is not Dawson's personal

euphemistic misstep; the usage persists in medical writing today.

Should you have had the forturne of visiting a web page called The

Constipation Page, you will [sic] have seen the phrase, "the motion

or stool is very dry or hard." Perhaps this is why the term "motion

pictures" was replaced by "movies." Now that I see it on the page,

"movie" would have been a far better BM euphemism than "motion."

I'd love to chat, but I need to make a movie.


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