Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Time ... Twenty-one years is a long time. For Weird Science it's too long. For Calvin and Hobbes it's barely time to rotate the bottle." -- howardtayler, 2006-06-24 (in his under-the-comic-strip blog, not on LJ), on re-viewing art from 1985.

I'm feeling a mite cranky this morning. Failing to fall asleep at all despite having been too tired to drag myself to 3LF rehearsal that I really wanted to get to may be a factor. So in the spirit of tired-&-cranky, a few demands ...

To writers of fiction who don't have editors or proofreaders:

• If it involves strips of adhesive-coated material, the verb you want is 'tape/taped/taping'; if it involves very lightly striking with an object or one's fingers, it's 'tap/tapped/tapping'. I've got no idea what "untapping" would mean, but I've sure seen it written a lot.
• A 'hinny' may be an ass, but not the kind I think you mean -- at least I hope you really meant 'heinie', given the context.
• While we're at it, keep an eye out for that switched-letters typo that converts 'untied' into 'united', okay? The spalling-chalker than gets ewe in two sew mulch trouble wont even cats id.

To webmasters of amateur fiction sites:

• Recruit an editor to fix up what your authors submit, damn it.
• Hey, if you offer decent editing, maybe in exchange you can get permission to use the stories swiped from other sites.
• Let the doggone browser figure out where to break lines so that increasing the font size doesn't mean scrolling horizontally, and use <P> tags so a story doesn't wind up looking like One F'ing HUGE Paragraph! (I don't bother to read those -- I see that kind of mess, and I hit the 'back' button.)

To folks arguing about politics:

• One side of the aisle may not seem to understand the meaning of 'hypocrisy', but the other side apparently can't spell it (despite being able to write 'hypocrite' and not 'hypocrat', which surprised me given how many instances of 'hypocrasy' I've read lately). I guess my being able to simultaneously spell it and define it means I'm third-party or something.
• It sure sounded to me as though Lincoln Davis said 'tenet', not 'tenant' (as it was transcribed by someone and then quoted by others). Having read the transcript first, I was listening for a misplaced 'n' sound when I finally watched it, and I didn't hear one.

In my fatigue-addled state, I keep trying to figure out who the 'tenants of marriage' are (do spicespouses pay rent to each other?) and what it would mean for them to 'untap' a 'hypocrat' (izzat someone who leads from below, or a nominal ruler who rules insufficiently?)

Like I warned y'all: cranky. :-P

[Edit: Would 'untapping' be akin to removing the cock from a keg?]