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Yeah, FB, drink and die...
But just think how cool the substitution would be:
This Slug's for You!
....instead of "This Bud's for you!"
Slugweiser
Take a slug of Slug!
I'm gonna send these ideas in to the brewery marketing team...
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Dear WW: Don't blame me, you started it. The spinning gears in my cranium suddently
meshed again, and printed out "limaçon" a mathematical curve:
The limaçon can be generated by specifying a fixed point P, then drawing a sequences
of circles with centers on a given circle which all pass through P. The envelope of
these curves is a limaçon.
Alas, I struck out trying to find "limaçon" in French dictionary. But since Latin is limax,
I'll bet Pascal use that as source of the name.
If the fixed point is on the circumference of the circle, then the envelope is a cardioid.
The limaçon is an anallagmatic curve, and is also the catacaustic of a circle when the
radiant point is a finite (nonzero) distance from the circumference, as shown by
Thomas de St. Laurent in 1826
(MacTutor Archive). The limaçon is the conchoid of a circle with respect to a point on its
circumference (Wells 1991).
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Well, geez, Bill! I'm trying here to imagine this curve and think I've got it, but don't know. Talk about throwing somebody a curve!
Can't you at least provide a link with a diagram or somethin'?
And cardioid is a very cool word, by the way.
Now how can we pull all this together into the Slugweiser campaign?
The link, Bill. Please provide a link.
Many thanks,
WW
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Here's the URL scroll down a ways to see different diagrams http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Limacon.htmlI got side-tracked trying to find limaçon in French dictionary, with no luck.
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And, why be difficult when I can be impossible. Here is a word worthless enough to
be one of tsuwm's: "limacoline" = pertaining to shore birds.
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I'm crying tears as big as cow patties that nobody got interested in "Kyloe".
"Wild cattle were a part of the native fauna of the forests, grasslands, and marshes
of post-glacial Scotland. Domestic cattle arrived with the first human colonists
about 5,000 years ago, and from these were developed the Kyloe
of the Highlands and Western Isles."
"Various classifications of the breed have been made, but it is thought that there are
really only two distinct classes, namely, the West Highland and the Highlander or mainland
Highlander. The former of these classes, sometimes designated by the term "Kyloe", is
found in its greatest purity in the Western Isles of Scotland, to which it no doubt was
at first confined. The term "Kyloe" would seem to indicate this, at least if one of the
common deviations of the word be accepted, namely, that it was applied to these
cattle because they used to cross the Kyloes or Ferries which separate the Western Isles
from the mainland of Scotland. Others think the word is merely a corruption of the Gaelic
word which signifies 'Highland', and if this be its proper derivation the term would lose
any significance.
The normal colour of the Kyloe was black, and in the recollection of some who are still
alive no other colour was known in the leading folds of the West. The pure Kyloe seems
also to have been smaller and shaggier than the Highlander, but whether thi was a
distinctive feature of this class of the breed or whether it arose from the cattle being
kept in a purer state and more exposed to the elements than the mainland cattle,
it is not easy to say. It is only within comparatively recent years that the colours
which are now so much in favour with breeders became common among the
West Highland Cattle, and the first animals of colour seem to have been introduced
from Perthshire. The Highlanders are common to the mainland of the North of Scotland
and also to the county of Argyll, and they seem generally to have been of larger size
than the west Highlanders and not uniformly of a black colour. It is not improbable that
their greater size may be attributed to the superior pasture of many of the cattle-raising
districts of the mainland and to greater care in rearing.
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coming to this thread late, as I haven't been below the fold for a while, but here's another golden oldie from '93:
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 9:05:27 CST
Subject: today's wwftd is... limacine
the worthless word for the day is: limacine
this word reminds me of the word game "stinky-pinky"
as in: limacine lima bean,
and relates to the fact that the lima bean is one of
the most disgusting vegetables in the known universe...
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Lima beans may not sppeal to you tsuwm, but they have an
important place in diet of S.A. indigenes. Maize is highly
nutricious, but low in an essential amino acid, that beans
can supply. So the indigenes learned to plant both.
They were smarter than the rednecks who got dermatitis,
dementia, and diarrhea from too much maize.
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And there's many a redneck farmer's wife who's learned to turn lima beans into ambrosia.
Please excuse the recipe, but this is how rednecks prepare lima beans and corn:
Cover three strips of bacon and 16 ozs. of frozen or fresh butter beans with water and cook it all at a slow boil till the beans are just about tender. If you're living dangerously (and well), throw in some real butter, too.
Add some fresh-shucked (or frozen) corn-off-the-cob.
And also add at least one tablespoon--but two is better--of sugar. If you can't tolerate sugar, Splenda is a good substitute.
Let all that slow-boil cook for about three or so minutes.
Even tsuwm would change his tuwn if he had a bite of that perfectly-constructed-amino-acid-chain Redneck beans and corn. No joke. Rednecks tend not to call it succotash although that's what it really is. They just like callin' it butter beans and corn.
Don't add any slugs. [See title of the thread.] Bill wouldn't eat with you if you did.
Butterbean regards,
WW
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WW, I'm with tuwnful tsuwm. You could only get me to eat that stuff by offering liberal copious plentiful mint juleps before and during.
I suppose you have a recipe to make okra palatable, too? (is that a legume?)
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