Jake walks into the apartment.
Dan: "Hey. Nice drop on the siphon today."
Jake: "Thanks. I'm glad I siphoned it."
Dan: "Yeah. You've had a lot of great posts on your siphon lately. Lots of siphoners too."
Jake: "Yeah. No kidding. It's probably because I started calling it a siphon."
Dan: "Yeah. Probably. What are you going to be siphoning about tomorrow."
Jake: "Don't know. Depends on how siphony I feel after work."
Friends, Romans, Siphoners, lend me your ears. Let it be known from here on and hereafter that the object before know as a bl...yem....that website thingy...will henceforth and forever be known as a siphon. That's right folks - a siphon. Knowledge, opinions, recipes and scrapbooking ideas can all be siphoned from the internet by you, the intrepid siphoners. Let the stream of water dribble out or come gushing from the pipe. Take it with you. Tell your fellow siphoners after all of the great ideas you've found on the siphonet. Oh yeah...like that...the siphonet. Siphon, siphon, siphon. Siphon. Have no fear to speak of the siphon with family, friends, coworkers, girlfriends, even your goldfish. Everybody loves the sound of siphon. It slips slyly so softly succulently soff syour stongue. Put your Star Trek and WoW shirts back in the closet. Pull out the titanium cufflinks and the Armani suit cause we are going out on the town baby. Siphon!
Oh dear.
Um...well...I think I had too much mac and cheese tonight...sorry about that. I'm not quite sure what came over me. Um...well...Robert Hinckley? Yeah. Great guy. Started the Hinckley Institute at the University of Utah. Want to know more? Go read the book!
Do you like the word blog? If so, why? If not, what would you rather call them?
12 comments:
Hands down--worst book review EVER. And you call yourself a siphoner. Psh...you should be ashamed.
Hey. I put a lot of time...ok...maybe like ten minutes into that siphon and the book was boring, and my brain was mushy - not a good combination.
Oh... wow... that was random... sleep deprived are we? Siphon just makes it sound like your stealing gas... which people consistently try to do. I would call it, um, well, actually what I would call it doesn't apply in this situation. But I dont like "blog" nor "siphon". (steal, take away, etc.) Neither of those is the right word.
Sometimes its good to just write meaningless drivel. Good work Jake, I congratulate you on your decision to break with the rest of the internet and refuse to succumb to the creation of new stupid monosyllabic words in favor of good old fashioned English.
Thanks for the comments. The video I dropped a couple of siphons back on siphoning taught that you should break from your standard drop every once in a while so that your siphoners don't get bored. The guy said that as long as you're passionate about it, you'll get a good response. And look, here you are! :)
But nobody answered the question. If you're not going to let me continue to call it a siphon, what other name should we use?
The first thing that I envisioned with this post was the Harry Potter movies when a dementor tries to kiss someone and their skin looks like it is being sucked off their body in a cyclonic fashion, as if the dementor is siphoning off their victim's soul.
I'm not going to lie, I kind of like the word "blog". Sorry to swim upstream. I don't buy into the entire concept a great deal, as you can see from my general lack of participation on this site. I only update my personal "insert word of choice for your web log here________" every two to three months. Call me old fashioned, but I like a little face time here and there.
I also find it difficult to simply assign another word to what this is. Like it or not, it is a blog. There are no synonyms yet. The word is too new. It fits our modern society. One syllable, four letters, to the point, it describes an entire network of people and interaction. It's succinct. So make up a new name combining various words/elements describing this phenomenon then shorten it. Maybe it will catch on. What about Online Journal, we can call it a LiJo. :)
Do you want meanings too? I have a list of words, but I dont think any of them meet up to your expectations, but I will post them anyway:
Scrim
tag
board
or, if you really want to stick with your "siphon" theme, try "tap".
I think that "tap" sounds better then "siphon" anyway. And it's easier to say.
That's all because I'm tired. (It's been a day, well, really, it's been a week. If you get my drift.)
Word Replacement Options:
Spitoon, Vulcan Mind-Meld, Web Log,Digital Suggestion Box, Intellectual Repository, Cesspool, Batman's Cave
haha! I love those- Vulcan Mind-Meld... The Bat Cave... DSB... I agree on all the above suggestions.
BTW, unless I missed it, you didn't touch on your reason for "maintaining this website". Although the entire post was amusing to read.
One of my reasons for maintaining the iloaf is just to keep track of the books I read. Some of these reviews may or may not be interesting to everyone else. This was probably going to be one of those drops.
At the same time, I do want to entertain all of the readers...all...one, two, three, four of you.
More blog replacements: izephyr, itie, itag, ipeg, iswirl, iporch, and the stupendous iloaf.
I respectfully suggest we just keep calling it a Blog, pretend Jake's insane sleep deprived post never happened, and get back to reading books and writing reviews.
Thank you.
Yes, I agree. although "iloaf" sounds like another automatic bread maker.
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