Editor's Note: Readers are cautioned that this post contains large lexemes. Those with corollary disease should consult their lawyers prior to further ingress such that a regrettable lexical calamity might be avoided.ROOSTERVILLE, Sri Lanka -- KNN has been called in to investigate mysterious happenings in the Colombo metropolis during the past few months. Residents of Wellawatte report of being unceremoniously ...
Editor's Note: Readers are cautioned that this post contains large lexemes. Those with corollary disease should consult their lawyers prior to further ingress such that a regrettable lexical calamity might be avoided. ROOSTERVILLE, Sri Lanka -- KNN has been called in to investigate mysterious happenings in the Colombo metropolis during the past few months. Residents of Wellawatte report of being ...
NORTH POLE, Arctic Circle -- In alarming news, KNN has just learned that Professor Ebenezer Gordon, Chairman and Grand Poobah of Gordon Industries, Inc., has been placed under house arrest and confined to his North Pole complex by a contingent of heavily-antlered reindeer. This latest incident brings to a head the bitter industrial dispute between Gordon's loss-making Santa Claus business ...
NORTH POLE, Arctic Circle -- In alarming news, KNN has just learned that Professor Ebenezer Gordon, Chairman and Grand Poobah of Gordon Industries, Inc., has been placed under house arrest and confined to his north pole complex by a contingent of heavily-antlered reindeer. This latest incident brings to a head the bitter industrial dispute between Gordon's loss-making Santa Claus business ...
REPUBLIC OF BOSTON, Former Massachusetts -- At an impromptu briefing held a short while ago, Kahuna announced sweeping changes to the Circus, suspiciously coinciding with the Ides of March. Calling the timing purely circumstantial, He downplayed rumors of resorting to brute force à la Junius Brutus.Getting down to business, Kahuna proclaimed that the blog had been refreshed with an elegant ...
NEW YORK CITY, New York -- In the aftermath of the lemma crisis, we must ask ourselves what would happen if St Vandoofus shared his apartment with like-minded, lexically-challenged companions and had urgent need for the thesaurus.Today's Get Fuzzy strip by Darby Conley does a fantastic job of illustrating the ensuing chaos:Ah, pure genius! For more of Satchel, Bucky and ...
Nil Mānel (Copyright (cc) B Kahuna)GALLE, Sri Lanka -- Close up of a Nil Mānel (Nympheae Stelleta) flower at The Fortress resort in Galle.Captured on 20th March 2010, using a Canon EOS 30D (EF 50mm 1:1.8 II) on aperture priority (f/4.5) with a resulting shutter speed of 1/40th of second and ISO 200.
Vase of Nil Mānel (Copyright (cc) 2010 Vandoofus)GALLE, Sri Lanka -- An ornamental vase with Nil Mānel (Nympheae Stelleta), the national flower of Sri Lanka, at The Fortress resort in Galle. In English, Nil Mānel is often rendered as "blue lotus" or "blue water lily".Captured on 20th March 2010, using a Canon EOS 30D (EF 50mm 1:1.8 II) on manual ...
NEW YORK, New York -- Just days after the loss of his lemma and then the tragic disappearance of his thesaurus, St Vandoofus has turned to his music for solace. Written while he was sleepless in DC, the new single released just moments ago was simply titled, Lemmaless in New York.Ee-e-e-um-um-a-wehEe-e-e-um-um-a-wehIn the Jungle,the concrete jungle,the lemma's lost tonight.In the apple, ...
NEW YORK CITY, New York -- Outright buffoonery took place a few days ago when crackpot lexicologist and unconventional orthographer, St Vandoofus redefined parts of the English language and caused chaos across two continents.It all started with a conversation between the Holy One and Kahuna on the perfectly innocent topic of computer programming, but soon became a quagmire involving the ...
Oh, give me a home where the guanaco roam,Where the lemma and the alpaca play,Where seldom is heard a humongous wordAnd the skies are not cloudy all day.Home, home on the range,Where the lemma and the alpaca play;Where seldom is heard a humongous wordAnd the skies are not cloudy all day.— Big Kahuna, with apologies to "Home on the Range" by John A Lomax and Dr Brewster Higley.
