sometimes we slay the giant
sometimes fall on our swords,
mostly feel a bit confused
then do the best we can.
so remember Jebediah
remember his cromulent words,
and that "a noble spirit
embiggens the smallest man."
-ml
june 2007
sometimes fall on our swords,
mostly feel a bit confused
then do the best we can.
so remember Jebediah
remember his cromulent words,
and that "a noble spirit
embiggens the smallest man."
-ml
june 2007
posted by micah at 10:18 AM
2 Comments:
classic. you have a noble spirit, and i hope you feel embiggened by it.
i had to look up "cromulent." it is listed as slang. in what world is "cromulent" slang? like, a big group of slackers is stoned by the quickie mart, and they talk about how very cromulent the doritos are? i think not.
hope to talk with you soon.
I guess we shouldn't be surprised about the origin of M's big words. All roads lead to The Simpsons:
Cromulent means valid, acceptable, or possibly commonplace, coined by David
Cohen for the episode ³Lisa the Iconoclast²; embiggen, coined by Dan
Greaney, means ³to make bigger,² or, used symbolically, means ³to empower.²
When schoolteacher Edna Krabappel hears the Springfield town motto ³A noble
spirit embiggens the smallest man,² she comments she¹d never heard the word
³embiggens² before moving to Springfield. Miss Hoover, another teacher,
replies, ³I don¹t know why; it¹s a perfectly cromulent word.²
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