Monday, April 04, 2005

Amaze your Friends [if you have any]

Inspired,as ever,by 'Alabama'Hana Loftus;if you Google "dethixotropize" - the art,or it might be the craft,of reducing the thixotropy,or tendency to go runny when agitated [cornflour being the classic example,but also some earth or mud banks,near to which you wouldn't want to be standing in the event of an earth-tremor or quake]of finely-divided solids [in this case,Meir's clay,which he suspects was over-vinegared when prepared for him by a certain Nameless clay supplier],you will come up with but one instance in all the livelong worldwide neverending universal Web:and it is here,dear reader,right in this little blog.I find that humbling,and at the same time impressive.
STOP PRESS-There are now TWO instances of "dethixotropize" on the Web!Both here!
STOP STOP PRESS-etc.,etc.
Now I'm going to check out "over-vinegared".
"Has he nothing better to do?Why isn't he working?"I hear you ponder.
1] I could ask you the same question,non?
2]The crystal kiln is at 1119 and soaking,so I am officially kilnsitting,and can do stuff like this.

1 Comments:

Blogger Hana Loftus said...

Congratulations. When one makes it onto Google, the OED can only follow, and lexicographers will beat a path to your doorstep.

and many thanks for the thought that my duckling is safely inside the pearly gates, though I guess if it is 'gods' [plural] then he must be in Valhalla or Mount Olympus.

10:22 PM  

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