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Sunday, May 3, 2026

A Few Words

Shackbaggerly
     adjective
Disorderly, messy, untidy.

   Sadly, Donna will always be a shackbaggerly person. If not for Ten, their home would look like the unkempt shore after the tide recedes.

Uglyography
     noun 
A term for bad handwriting or poor spelling.

   Never an expert orthographer to begin with, once beset with essential tremors, Donna’s handwriting was, at best uglyography. In certain lights, and if you’d consumed enough wine, you could say it was even Jackson Pollack-esque

Blatherskite
     noun
A person who talks a lot of nonsense.

   It’s a profound shame that Pedo is not a mere blatherskite.

Fustilarian
     noun
A contemptible person, a scoundrel; a smelly, slovenly person.

   It can be said that Pedo is, at the very least, a blatherskite and a most heinous fustilarian.

Grumbletonian
     noun
One who is constantly complaining.

   While an old chum found my Little Orphan Annie optimism absurd and tedious, I found her grumbletonian nature a bit of a heavy weight. I couldn’t understand how she could carry on without even a stray glimmer of hope.

Humbuggery
     noun 
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense. 

With his long history of blatant humbuggery, no one actually believes a word that exits his face anus. The mainstream media stenographers record and report but only his idiot cult is still swallowing his theatrical piles of flaming lies

Ennui
     noun
From Word of the Day – The English Nook 

  • Ennui is not mere boredom; it is boredom with consciousness, an emotional fatigue that comes from knowing too much and feeling too little.
  • It is the shadow cast when comfort replaces vitality, when all things are familiar and none feel alive.
  • Philosophers have described it as the malaise of modern existence — the inertia that follows abundance, when nothing external can fill the inner quiet.
  • In literature, ennui is the poetic stillness between despair and awakening — a mirror of self-awareness turned upon emptiness.

A few quotes which might illuminate:

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. 
Edward Gorey

The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it. 
Don DeLillo, Zero K

Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone 
Jack Kerouac

“Yes, Doc, I'm not feeling too well.'

Which was true enough, Kwang Meng considered.

He had honestly not been feeling too well since he contracted poverty, loneliness, boredom, sexual frustration and periodic coughs and colds. Not to speak of his dreary job.” 

Goh Poh Seng, If We Dream Too Long

Ba no Kuuki wo Yomu (場の空気を読む) – not a word but a phrase. (pronounced Bah noh koo-key woh yoh-moo) 
It basically means understanding what’s up without words – being socially aware and able to read social cues. The literal translation is “reading the air.” 

Someone who cannot read the air or fails to understand social cues is labeled “KY" – Kuuki ga Yomenai (空気読めない)

And if you’re really, really bad at reading the atmosphere, you might be called SKY: Super Kuuki Yomenai” (スーパー空気くうき読よめない) for “Killing the Mood” or “Spoiling the Atmosphere”. (source
I’m sure I’ve KYed and SKYed far more than a few times in my life before I learned to Irish goodbye myself out of tertiary embarrassment and permanent social banishment. 

Well, mostly learned. In theory, I'm an absolute delight.

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