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Four Random Acts of Language Cruelty
2 min readApr 18, 2024
New definitions…
- Dogmatic: An automatic response from a dog, such as wagging the tail when you say “treat.”
- Catalog: The cat’s favorite scratching post.
- Caravan: A car dressed up to look like a van.
- Example: Formerly ample, now not enough.
- Fungus: Uncle Gus… he is so much fun.
- Carbon: “good car” in French. Odd, since cars produce carbon and carbon is so bad for the environment. Somebody should tell the French.
Here is a poem…
He drinks chai tea at Tai Chi
The clever lad is leather clad
Wearing steel, he grabs the steering wheel
And at a fierce pace, with a pierced face
He drives his llama, alive with drama
Fun with verbs and nouns!
- I adore a door
- I abhor a bore
- I oppose a pose
- The ketchup will catch up
- The mustard must turd
- I accrue a crew
- I attack a tack
- I afford a Ford
- I acquire a choir
- My specialty is special tea