re: SL

For those wanting to find me on SL, let me put it this way: the single most wonderful thing about Gneeches is I'm the only one. ;)

Having said that, however, I should warn you not to expect to find me there often. As it is, I spent two hours more there than I expected to last night, 'cause I was getting myself oriented. I can draw comics or I can hang out online ... I can't really do both.

-TG

Happy Birthday, eskermikey!

For your present, here's today's Forgotten English!

smartish-few
A fair quantity. "Did you have many apples this year? A smartish-few."

--Angelina Parker's Supplement to the Oxfordshire Glossary, 1881

Wassail Eve
On this evening, medieval participants celebrated the conclusion of the Yule season by drinking sweetened and spiced ale or wine from a two-handled loving cup made for toasting and simultaneous sharing. On Wassail Eve, one pronoun-riddled old English toast proclaimed, "When we and ours have it in our power to do for you and yours what you and yours have done for us and ours, then we and ours will do for you and yours what you and yours have done for us and ours." The name was derived from the thirteenth-century Old Norse drinking salutation waes hail, which meant "be thou healthy," and is closely related to the modern English words whole and holy. Wassail later came to signify any festivity or accompanying libation. In some orchards, apple trees were serenaded with "wassailing songs," saluted with rifle-fire through their branches, and doused with cider, all to encourage future abundance.

I tell ya, nothing encourages future abundance like being shot at. 0.o Why do I have visions of Henry V (or possibly Winston Churchill) saying "We few, we smartish few..."

-The Gneech

I Don't Date Outside My Specious

Y'know, I used to get flack from time to time that SJ's cast was made up so predominantly of big cats. Well, for a year now I've been running a story heavy on mustelids and rodentia (plus the occasional homo extraterrestrialis), and nobody's so much as commented on it!

Fickle, you lot are. ;P

-TG

Unexpected GGness!

Graveyard Greg is on the air! Go listen while you've got the chance!

Well, not any more he's not.

-TG

Scenery Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful

For those who requested my SL photo. :) With iamme_uk's help, I managed to find a hat and attach it to my ear. I couldn't attach it to my skull, 'cos there was a lion head there.


Greetings from Luskwood!

-The Gneech