Sustainable? susTAINable SustainaBLE. SUStainAble!
Decatur Metro | January 23, 2012
From the excellent xkcd webcomic. I mean, um, from sustainable, sustainable xkcd sustainable. (It’s all in the inflection.)
From the excellent xkcd webcomic. I mean, um, from sustainable, sustainable xkcd sustainable. (It’s all in the inflection.)
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Feelin’ a wee bit sarcastic, are ya?
You never did the Kenosha kid.
I have no idea what this means.
Sorry, DM. Guilty of typing without reflection. I was amused by your play on “sustainable” with the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble, which reminded me of a car game my dad used to lead, wherein the player would submit an alternative pronunciation of a road sign, and the remaining six of us would have to guess the original source. (It was a long ride from Fort Lauderdale to Jersey City.) From there it was a short jump to the only part I remember of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow, where there’s a long riff parsing and re-parsing the phrase “you never did the Kenosha kid.” I thought someone might laugh. If after this lengthy explanation–and a joke that has to be explained is a failed joke–if you are still remotely interested, the excerpt is here. http://amzn.to/zBmUb3
Either way, the original post is amusing but I think we’ve already hit the 2036 level.
ooops, and if you follow the link you have to go to page 60.
My apologies! I wish I had gotten the reference. Alas, I’m a history major who should have probably been an English major, so I’m still catching up on a lot of literary references. I wonder if my dad would get it.
Sadly, nope – didn’t get it. Afraid I had to stop at Pynchon’s ‘V’.
Your Dad reads your blog? How lucky you are!
And we know his Vermont Mom does too. I like this family! (But not encouraging any of my own family to start reading avidly. I’d have to censor my posts.)
He’s commented before under different names. Just little things here or there. Most are literary in nature, I believe.
I didn’t get it, either. Must have been before my time. Pynchon never entered my consciousness until Beverly Hills Cop and, of course, his magnum opus as Balki Bartokomous in Perfect Strangers. Whatever did happen to Cousin Larry???
Man, guess it’s still too early for this joke.
Not at all! Indeed, it sustained me through the night.
I just figured you were drunk.
I don’t drink and blog. At least not at 3pm!
I guess you’re just a better man than me, DM
No, I just need to be more careful than you.
This is what happens when John Malkovich goes through the recycling portal.