I recently had the honor of having one of my long-winded rants selected for posting at the Otherwhere Gazette. And it’s a doozy. In it, I refer to SJWs and Progressives by their more ancient name: Weasels. They have been known throughout history by this name, and it is time to bring it back.
Read it if you dare. But please, do comment there as opposed to here for this one. I was very pleased when they chose to feature my writing there.
It’s a good, energetic piece, but I simply must tell you…(No, I don’t think I can do it, Grammar Nazi. He’s too good a guy, and it might throw him off his game. Do it, you spaghetti-spined crafter of pathetic Catholic fantasies! GN, I can’t! He might never come back to Liberty’s Torch if… I swear that I won’t let you sleep for a week, you namby-pamby simile-slinger, so cowboy up! But he’s trying to become a writer himself, GN! This could crush him. No more warnings, mush-brained theophagic compassion freak! All right, all right.
Dys, “presently” doesn’t mean “now.” It means “soon.”
(Puts .45 ACP to his temple and pulls trigger…)
Quite all right. Nobody else bothered to point that out (and several actual writers reviewed it before its posting there). Somewhere buried in this blog is something I call “booger hanging from the nose syndrome.”
It is based off an imaginary paradox, in which a student is travelling down the halls of his school while, unknown to him, a booger is dangling from his nose. Now, there are snickers in the hallways, and amused looks at the booger-dangler, but he doesn’t know of the booger, and so spends the entire day looking like an idiot because, despite asking why people are laughing, no one can summon the courage to point out the booger.
Now, does a true friend allow the dangler to suffer, or does he provide a tissue and inform him of the bogey?
I would argue that the latter, while momentarily unpleasant, is ultimately the better option. So, no worries.
That being said, I borrowed the expression from several others who, apparently, must also be misusing the phrase. English really is a screwy language.