I want a word ...
Tonight's class was my advanced students and the classroom format is fun.
We have no text book and the curriculum is articles I select each week based on current events. We read them together, learn new words and then discuss the events.
One week we read about the United States elections and the very next about the Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes wedding.
The following lesson we discussed Cruise's religion, Scientology, which was great because I taught the expressions, "Con Artist" for Scientology founder and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard, as well as the word "hogwash."
Tonight, we talked about every body's favorite former member of the Hitler Youth, Pope Benedict XVI, and his visit to Turkey. (Rumor has it that the Pope asked to stop at an elementary school and the prime minister told him no.)
One of my students asked about the word "Papal" and what it meant. I explained "the word Papal means anything to do with the pope. If the Pope visits somewhere it's a Papal Visit. If the Pope meets with people it's a Papal Meeting. If the Pope sits in a chair, it becomes the Papal Chair."
Then it struck me. The Pope has his own freaking word. Not just Pope, but Papal. That is so cool. Just think about power for a second and how much of it comes with having your own word.
And not just a word, but a word describing anything you do.
I want a word. That is my new mission for life. To acquire the fame, power and Martyrs blood for my own word.
Here's where you come in dear readers. What should my word be? Loughriesque is OK, but then anyone with the surname Loughrie gets a piece of it. And I want the word all to myself.
Help me coin a word for myself, something that will go down in the pages of history as a word describing anything I do. But don't come up with your own word, because if everyone has their own word, my mission is pointless.
We have no text book and the curriculum is articles I select each week based on current events. We read them together, learn new words and then discuss the events.
One week we read about the United States elections and the very next about the Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes wedding.
The following lesson we discussed Cruise's religion, Scientology, which was great because I taught the expressions, "Con Artist" for Scientology founder and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard, as well as the word "hogwash."
Tonight, we talked about every body's favorite former member of the Hitler Youth, Pope Benedict XVI, and his visit to Turkey. (Rumor has it that the Pope asked to stop at an elementary school and the prime minister told him no.)
One of my students asked about the word "Papal" and what it meant. I explained "the word Papal means anything to do with the pope. If the Pope visits somewhere it's a Papal Visit. If the Pope meets with people it's a Papal Meeting. If the Pope sits in a chair, it becomes the Papal Chair."
Then it struck me. The Pope has his own freaking word. Not just Pope, but Papal. That is so cool. Just think about power for a second and how much of it comes with having your own word.
And not just a word, but a word describing anything you do.
I want a word. That is my new mission for life. To acquire the fame, power and Martyrs blood for my own word.
Here's where you come in dear readers. What should my word be? Loughriesque is OK, but then anyone with the surname Loughrie gets a piece of it. And I want the word all to myself.
Help me coin a word for myself, something that will go down in the pages of history as a word describing anything I do. But don't come up with your own word, because if everyone has their own word, my mission is pointless.
posted by James at 10:12 PM
9 Comments:
Perhaps "idiotic" could work...?
Well, my first instinct is "Horseshit," as in, you're worth your weight in...
But let's take this seriously for a moment. After all, you are sinning for the rest of us, and that's a service hard to find elsewhere. So here goes:
Jamesish. Jamesian. Jamaican.
J-tastic. Jamesworthy.
Loughrific. JaLofic.
Midge-ish. Midgian. Midget.
That's a winner. Midget. You love midgets. Now it's your word.
This can be your midget blog. Or your horseshit blog. Take your pick. I'm out of ideas.
OK Lisa, you obviously weren't paying attention. It has to be a word that does not already exist in the modern day vernacular as a work associated with anyone else or anything but me.
Your response leads me to believe that you have a soft spot for religious leaders who were associated with the Nazi Party who systematically cover up child molstation. I think that's too bad because the Jews are Jesus' Children and the Children are the Future. I expected more out of you.
Chris, I like where your going, except that Midget already exists. Do you think I could steal Jamaican? I like that one. I kind of like JaLofic too.
how about "Chunce"
or "weeble"
OH I know...CHOWLINE
you can use the following
assbiterite
jackasski
asswipe
or
cooly mccool
blance
Homer: From now on, there are three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way.
Bart: Isn't that just the wrong way?
Homer: Yeah, but faster!
Just be careful you don't end up chained to a pine tree with a bunch of well-to-do environmentalists. I mean, unless you're into that kind of bondage stuff...
How about USC SUCKS!!!
Midget already exists, but I don't think midgetophile does. Lover of midgets? Midgetophilian?
lv from Idaho
BTW, the pope may have "pope" and "papal," but he has to share it with every other pope that's ever existed. Even the one in Avignon.
lv from Idaho
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