There are some things in this world you won't be able to appreciate as much as you could until you learn about their past. Whether it be history, music, or another individual, there are some things that wont perk your interest until you possess more than a basic knowledge about them.
(sess'-kwi-ped-ay'-lee-un) adj. 1: having many syllables 2: given to or characterized by the use of long words.
I don't blog about my candle making adventures, my family (with two thousand pictures of my kids), or my life as a housewife who makes quilts 24/7. I'm not some pretentious hipster who can't finish three sentences without using some form of the word "musing." I'm just here to laugh at society.
Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Radiohead, Donkey Kong, and Mashed Potatoes
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Just maybe though.
Next time a girl says she's waiting for her Prince Charming, you should fill her in on the fact that in the first, original context that it was used, it didn't actually say "Prince Charming." It was miss-translated. The original text says that the Prince was charmed.
So what I'm saying is that if you're waiting on your very own Prince Charming, maybe you should spend some more time trying to charm some more Princes.
"Charles Perrault's version of Sleeping Beauty, published in 1697, includes the following text at the point where the princess wakes up: "'Est-ce vous, mon prince?' lui dit-elle, 'vous vous êtes bien fait attendre'. Le Prince charmé de ces paroles... ne savait comment lui témoigner sa joie". ("'Are you my prince?' she said. 'You've kept me waiting a long time'. The prince, charmed by her words... did not know how to express his joy.")
It has sometimes been suggested that this passage later inspired the term, "Prince Charming", even though it is the prince who is charmed (charmé) here, not who is being charming (charmant).
In the eighteenth century, Madame d'Aulnoy wrote two fairy tales, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, where the hero was named Avenant ("Fine", "Beautiful", in French), and The Blue Bird, where the hero was Le roi Charmant ("The Charming King"). When Andrew Lang retold the first (in 1889) for The Blue Fairy Book, he rendered the hero's name as "Charming"; the second, for The Green Fairy Book, as "King Charming".
Although neither one was a prince and the first was not royal, this may have been the original use of "Charming".
- Wikipedia.
It could be worse though. You could have the Dorian Gray kind of Prince, who ditches you (and then you inevitably commit suicide).
"Then, Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray refers ironically to "Prince Charming", perhaps the earliest use of the exact term. The main character, Dorian, is supposed to be a young actress's "Prince Charming", but he abandons her and in despair she commits suicide."
Honestly though, maybe if there were more girls that acted, or even looked, like Disney Princesses, maybe there'd be more Prince Charming's (the Disney version) crashing through windows and stabbing people for you.
Just maybe though.
So what I'm saying is that if you're waiting on your very own Prince Charming, maybe you should spend some more time trying to charm some more Princes.
"Charles Perrault's version of Sleeping Beauty, published in 1697, includes the following text at the point where the princess wakes up: "'Est-ce vous, mon prince?' lui dit-elle, 'vous vous êtes bien fait attendre'. Le Prince charmé de ces paroles... ne savait comment lui témoigner sa joie". ("'Are you my prince?' she said. 'You've kept me waiting a long time'. The prince, charmed by her words... did not know how to express his joy.")
It has sometimes been suggested that this passage later inspired the term, "Prince Charming", even though it is the prince who is charmed (charmé) here, not who is being charming (charmant).
In the eighteenth century, Madame d'Aulnoy wrote two fairy tales, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, where the hero was named Avenant ("Fine", "Beautiful", in French), and The Blue Bird, where the hero was Le roi Charmant ("The Charming King"). When Andrew Lang retold the first (in 1889) for The Blue Fairy Book, he rendered the hero's name as "Charming"; the second, for The Green Fairy Book, as "King Charming".
Although neither one was a prince and the first was not royal, this may have been the original use of "Charming".
- Wikipedia.
It could be worse though. You could have the Dorian Gray kind of Prince, who ditches you (and then you inevitably commit suicide).
"Then, Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray refers ironically to "Prince Charming", perhaps the earliest use of the exact term. The main character, Dorian, is supposed to be a young actress's "Prince Charming", but he abandons her and in despair she commits suicide."
Honestly though, maybe if there were more girls that acted, or even looked, like Disney Princesses, maybe there'd be more Prince Charming's (the Disney version) crashing through windows and stabbing people for you.
Just maybe though.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Sometimes...
Sometimes I feel like I can't make fun of politics because it'd be too easy.
Sometimes I feel like if llamas controlled everything, the world would be a better place.
Sometimes I get the feeling that women have a strange complex within themselves that force them to go after dudes who are obviously a lollapalooza of suck-fest-ness.
Sometimes at night I think something, then stop myself and say "no, that's retarded."
Sometimes I watch movies with subtitles in different languages.
Sometimes, when I hear "wish upon a star," I like to imagine some little alien wishing upon Earth from someplace far away.
Sometimes, when I go to social events and I notice people sitting off by themselves, reading or texting, I make fun of them, even though I'm sitting off alone making fun of people.
Sometimes I make random noises.
Sometimes I listen to Christmas music in the Summer.
Sometimes I intentionally put myself in a bad mood for no good reason.
Sometimes when I'm bored I talk to myself.
Sometimes when I'm walking around I skip just to weird people out.
Sometimes I make random lists about stuff.
Sometimes I feel inspired to do something, but waste it on some worthless piece of turd idea.
Sometimes I'm overly suspicious about other people's motives.
Sometimes I try to imagine what it'd be like if I wasn't alive, but it just hurts my brain, because if I wasn't alive I couldn't be thinking about being alive because I wouldn't know what being alive was like, and then *blam brain-a-splode*.
Sometimes when I concentrate I make funny faces.
Sometimes when I'm hyper I get shifty eyes.
Sometimes I can type like, 100 words a minute.
Sometimes I get fed up with the rules of society, which makes me want to study them so I can learn about how much they suck, just to justify my hating them.
Sometimes I'll spend up to an hour on Wikipedia clicking link after link learning as much as I can.
Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do something illegal.
Sometimes when people analyze everything I do it makes me hate them.
Sometimes all I feel like I need to be happy in this world is a good hug.
Sometimes I rhyme just because I can.
Sometimes I rhyme just because I can.
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