dream a little dream of lists

Prolagus commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

... by the way, am I the only one who is dreaming of word lists?

April 17, 2008

reesetee commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

Heck no, Prolagus! It's a common symptom of Wordie addiction. ;-)

April 17, 2008

Prolagus commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

Yes, I should have known...

April 17, 2008

reesetee commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

:-)

April 17, 2008

bilby commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

I was visited in a dream by sionnach last night. After constructing a decorative arrangement of cats on my sofa and inventing mock-Gaelic names for every utensil in my kitchen draw, he proceeded to dictate me a meta-list of lists I will make between now and the mid-winter solstice. When I queried this hitherto hidden talent of clairvoyancy he replied: "Blairvoyancy, a blindman's bluff of a novel about a British Prime Minister who has a vision that ten years in the top job will turn him into a poncy, fecaloid smellsmock, but does it anyway."

April 17, 2008

reesetee commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

Bilby, perhaps you should refrain from snacking before going to bed.

April 17, 2008

plethora commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

I had my first Wordie dream last night. But it wasn't a dream. It was a place, and you and you and you... and you were there.

It honestly just involved me sitting at the computer and being involved in a spirited Wordie conversation. And then some other non-Wordie stuff happened, but that's not important. But I wish I remember what we were talking about, it was fascinating.

April 25, 2008

gangerh commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

I had a nightmare about the s-word. Then I woke up with schadenfreudgeon.

April 26, 2008

reesetee commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

Gangerh has become the king of word product placement. ;-)

April 26, 2008

gangerh commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

That's schadenfreudgeon meaning 'mixed feelings of extreme pleasure and indignant humour' not schadenfreudgeon meaning 'I was in bed with someone called schadenfreudgeon'.

April 26, 2008

pterodactyl commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

I just had my first Wordie dream last night. In the dream, I read a certain peculiar comment, and upon waking, I wrote it down. Here it is:

about 1 hour ago bilby said:

Chained_bear is my mother?! Well, tie me to the mall with a malt of third!

I've reproduced every jot and tittle just as I dreamt it. Now, the big question: is this a case of oneiromantic prophecy, or just an effect of the bad applesauce I ate before bed?

Only time will tell.

December 4, 2008

yarb commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

The oath is uncannily Patrick O'Brien-ish. I've had a few wordie dreams. I also sometimes have entire dreams in the form of novels, i.e. my dream consists of me reading a fictional novel, turning the pages, seeing how the plot unfolds, etc. In these dream-novels I sometimes encounter strange words, and think "I must cite that on wordie when I wake up", but when I wake up I've usually forgotten the citation.

December 4, 2008

chained_bear commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

I've had a few memorable dreams that involve writing a book, or play, and the plot of the dream (for want of a better term) morphs into an activity that involves certain death at the end, yet I/we must persist in our activity, because we simply must, and I wake up feeling completely creeped out and unwilling to fall asleep ever again.

Ptero, I love that comment! *wonders what bilby thinks of it* "Tie me to the mall with a malt of third!" does sound like a bilbyism....

I think I may have had a Wordie dream before, but I don't remember details.

December 4, 2008

reesetee commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

You mean Wordie isn't a dream?? Well, tie me to the mall with a malt of third....

December 4, 2008

sionnach commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

Golly gumdrops, batquoll!! How did I miss bilby's comment until now? How awesome, to haunt the dreams of a floppy-eared talking marsupial all the way on the other side of the planet.

Tee-hee.

December 4, 2008

bilby commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

Call your lawyer, ptero ;-)

Blahaha! Dat weird stuff you bin smokin', honey chile. Mall is pronounced to rhyme with either ball or pal in Australia, both of which make me uncomfortable; the first because it reminds of maul (hence rugby *yawn*, animals with sharp claws *ouch*, etc.), the second because it's flat, crass and feels like a lobotomised bit of malapropism. My simple solution is to avoid saying mall at all. I don't even drawl mall. At all. Oh, I write mall. But ... ssshhhh! My town has a central pedestrian mall - very pedestrian come to think of it - known, with our wan flair for nomenclature as The Mall. If I have to meet someone there I'll try to work around it. e.g.

Grusha: Hi.

Bilby: Hi Grusha. We meeting for lunch?

G: Sure. Where do you want to go?

B: Somewhere in the ... *mumbles*

G: Where?

B: Uhhh. How about Monty's?

G: In the mall?

B: Yep.

G: Fine, see you there at 12.

That concludes instalment 1 of my thoughts about ptero's dream.

December 4, 2008

plethora commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

Mall is pretty awful word, now that you mention it, b.

Move to Adelaide, and then your choices for referring to the meeting place include: Rundle, the City, or my favourite, by the Balls.

December 4, 2008

bilby commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

The pigs :-)

December 4, 2008

plethora commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

That too.

December 4, 2008

bilby commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

Photos: the Mall's Balls and some of the pigs. In a sign of the times, note that both bits of sculpture have their own MySpace pages.

December 4, 2008

plethora commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

The pigs' names are Horatio (sitting), Truffles (standing), Augusta (trotting), and Oliver (at the bin).

December 4, 2008

chained_bear commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

*wipes tear at the sight of the site of long-ago joy*

December 4, 2008

bilby commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

Indeed. But back to pterodactyl's vision. I'm reasonably sure that chained_bear is not my mother, although who knows what she got up to with cousin Kev Koala all those years ago. Of course she's a mother figure to me, what with her stately court of cowering minions, the blinding light of her beauty smiting all and sundry, and the glorious regalia of her flowing Kilt of Squopped Winks and her Crown of Fewmets.

The malt of third is the other interesting bit ... is a tad bilby-babblish ... can't recall ... somewhere a switch was glicking in flimmer ... oh the fruit, hard to get proper sketches of mangosteen hydraulics anywhere these days ... strike me black with a timber stack ... pressure's dropping in the amber mule ... flapping like a scandalmonger's tongue ... a thankful turkey, an image jerky, an alarm clock hiking to Albuquerque ... arf, arf ... I can has ineluctability ... it's all in the business cards, frankily ... 3 blind rats, do I know where this is going? Drats! ... appointment in diary with the UnderSecretary of Phraseology ... Aunt Joyce had a crocheted face if I recall ... ba doop da doop, JAZZ! ... sticky notes are actually glue: lives, memories, desks ... draw a dray with a dram, ma'am ... yipes, gazonked again, mustta been that last malt o' third, just a third he said me mateys, but it's that third what does ya ...

December 5, 2008

reesetee commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

Bilby, that's some of the finest Wordie scat I've ever seen. And I don't mean specific excrement. :-D

December 5, 2008

pterodactyl commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

Well, if this page is a good example of what happens when I post the details of weird dreams, then I should definitely start hitting the applesauce every night. Bilby, I love the way you limn chained_bear, and your bilby-babble fills me with joy... strange, slightly worried joy.

December 5, 2008

pterodactyl commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

*loves whoever came up with tag*

December 5, 2008

pterodactyl commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

Plethora, I have to say that I recognized the names of several of the Adelaide landmarks you mentioned, but only by way of this Ben Folds song.

December 5, 2008

plethora commented on the word dream a little dream of lists

I love that song.

And by coincidence, it is currently raining in Adelaide.

It's a very Ben Folds sort of day, actually.

I'm prepared to bet the tag was sionnach's doing.