Word Games

PRINCE OF THE CITY The Movie starred some other guy because John Travolta pulled out/did Saturday Night Fever instead/whatever he did ...

Coronation Street was not on, it's Thursday night: EastEnders night. Can I ask you Canadians something? I was quite shocked to discover Corrie's so popular over there. Are you totally up to date with us? I mean, has Tracey Barlow been sentenced yet for slaying Charlie Stubbs, the evil builder who made Shelley's life a misery? I'm resisting temptation to give the jury's verdict here in case you are behind and are a serious Corrie fan to boot ... suffice it to say you were right if you thought that girl was capable of getting away with murder .... or WERE you???

Abscess number two, the one on my knee I probably didn't tell you about, the one that has always been topped with a scab, has been oozing pus beautifully all day. Now it's totally gone down as has been all squeezed out. I just resemble a five year old primary school kid with my traditionally scabby knee... Abscess number one, the "traffic light" on the back of my right leg, which at its peak had a pus-mountain the size of a fried egg yolk, is well and truly healing naturally. I'm not going to complain about this (ie the fact it never came enough to a head to burst through), it just went from dark purply red down to light pink, the pus-lake is less than a third of the size of what it used to be, it doesn't even really itch any more and stopped paining me days ago. It's sinking down the way it would vanish if I were on a course of antibiotics. This means, according to the concensus of common sense I get, that I'm obviously in too good a level of general health to be eaten alive by staphyloccocus aureus, which can only be a good thing ... (And I never DID make it to the doctor's I shamefacedly admit...)

There are no repositories of profundity to milk for today's pustular outpouring of a posting, so I'll just go now ... Leaving with a query about WORD GAMES... Does anyone know a word game you can play which does not rely on SPELLING to make any sense? I know this sounds a little odd but think about it. I have always been useless at spelling but good with words. And most of the word games I've come across are actually games of spelling: ie if you translated them to Chinese they would not work. The only exception I can think of is what we used to call The Dictionary Game where a word is selected from the dictionary. All players create a bogus definition for this word. You win points when people mistakenly select your bogus definition as the true meaning. This is similar to "call my bluff" except there is no division into teams, everyone plays every round and turns are taken to select the word to be "defined". The other one I loved playing involves being given a card with a word written upon it plus about five words you are not allowed to use when describing to the other players what this word means. An eggtimer (which in my view was a little short on sand) keeps time. For example I got COSMOPOLITAN. The five no-no words were things like "international" "sophisticated" etc. Everyone got it in two seconds when I declared, "it's a magazine that tells you how to have sex swinging from a chandalier". See what I mean?...?

PS Who is Jesus who left a comment for me the other day? I could not work out whether you were named after the Son of God ... or were just Spanish...! BTW when I clicked your profile it doesn't let me in there! Please get back to me & tell where your blog is, if you do one!!

PS Does anyone know what the words mean to that themetune to The Osbournes: "Crazy, that's how it goes; millions of people live in ASBOS...??" An asbo is an AntiSocial Behaviour Order. It is an order summarily imposed by the courts in England and Wales banning an individual from engaging in nuisance behaviour -- and you could not live in one however desperate you were for somewhere to stay ...