Portents. They just keep getting funnier.

Somehow, the commentary on my post about visiting the Church of Math and Science morphed into an offer to bring adammaker and jackjob a portent when next we visited. And somehow, again, we were in the grocery store last night trying to work out what a portent looked like, so that we would recognize one if we saw it...

Me: "So we're bringing them a portent. What does a portent look like?"
triadruid: "Um. I'm not sure. I don't think I've ever seen one."
Me: "So why did you tell them we'd bring them one, if you didn't know what it was?"
T: "Actually, I think you said that."
kittenpants: "See. You started it."
Me: "Oh."
*beat*
Me: "Well, from the etymology, it must logically have something to do with a door, right?"
K: **boggle**
Me: "Port-tent. It must have something to do with a door. Or left. The left of the door."
K: "Or boats. As in, 'He looked up Moor in the dictionary and learned that it was a place where they tied up boats'."
T: "Or wine."
Me: "So, it's a boat-shaped object full of wine, at the left of the door."
K: "But you have to carry it over land."
Me: "No, that's portage. It's different. I think we're good on the port part. Now I'm moving on to the 'ent' part."
K: "Well, that's a large angry tree that talks to you."
Me: "So if we put it in a large tree to the left of the do-- Wait. They don't have a large tree to the left of their door."
T: "Dammit."

So this morning, I thought, well, if I hit Google Image Search, surely that will be enlightening on the subject of what a portent might look like. And it might have, too, had I not typo'ed and left out the R. *headdesk*

Portents. They just keep getting funnier.

Somehow, the commentary on my post about visiting the Church of Math and Science morphed into an offer to bring adammaker and jackjob a portent when next we visited. And somehow, again, we were in the grocery store last night trying to work out what a portent looked like, so that we would recognize one if we saw it...

Me: "So we're bringing them a portent. What does a portent look like?"
triadruid: "Um. I'm not sure. I don't think I've ever seen one."
Me: "So why did you tell them we'd bring them one, if you didn't know what it was?"
T: "Actually, I think you said that."
kittenpants: "See. You started it."
Me: "Oh."
*beat*
Me: "Well, from the etymology, it must logically have something to do with a door, right?"
K: **boggle**
Me: "Port-tent. It must have something to do with a door. Or left. The left of the door."
K: "Or boats. As in, 'He looked up Moor in the dictionary and learned that it was a place where they tied up boats'."
T: "Or wine."
Me: "So, it's a boat-shaped object full of wine, at the left of the door."
K: "But you have to carry it over land."
Me: "No, that's portage. It's different. I think we're good on the port part. Now I'm moving on to the 'ent' part."
K: "Well, that's a large angry tree that talks to you."
Me: "So if we put it in a large tree to the left of the do-- Wait. They don't have a large tree to the left of their door."
T: "Dammit."

So this morning, I thought, well, if I hit Google Image Search, surely that will be enlightening on the subject of what a portent might look like. And it might have, too, had I not typo'ed and left out the R. *headdesk*

Subjectivity/Objectivity

As much as I believe that reality is what you make it, and that the universe is a very, very subjective place, I also believe that there are some "facts" around which such a consensus has been built as to make them if not actually objectively true, at least living in a house on the same block as objectively true.

One of these facts is that I do not now have, and have not ever had, a pierced tongue.

And yet, for the second time in my life, I have been denied employment due to my alleged tongue ring.

So let me ask you all this, you who know me, and especially you who have had direct experience of my tongue: Does it seem to any of you that I might have a pierced tongue?

If people are going to be like that about it, I suppose I might as well go get the piercing done. I've wanted one for years, but I thought it might make me less employable. ::boggle::

Subjectivity/Objectivity

As much as I believe that reality is what you make it, and that the universe is a very, very subjective place, I also believe that there are some "facts" around which such a consensus has been built as to make them if not actually objectively true, at least living in a house on the same block as objectively true.

One of these facts is that I do not now have, and have not ever had, a pierced tongue.

And yet, for the second time in my life, I have been denied employment due to my alleged tongue ring.

So let me ask you all this, you who know me, and especially you who have had direct experience of my tongue: Does it seem to any of you that I might have a pierced tongue?

If people are going to be like that about it, I suppose I might as well go get the piercing done. I've wanted one for years, but I thought it might make me less employable. ::boggle::

Speaking of porn

Shiny time nerd porn poetry.
I saw it on sapiosexual, that's what.

Click the internet. You know you want to.

Also, kittenpants complains about lack of tongue ring. Motivation +5.

Speaking of porn

Shiny time nerd porn poetry.
I saw it on sapiosexual, that's what.

Click the internet. You know you want to.

Also, kittenpants complains about lack of tongue ring. Motivation +5.