{"id":102,"date":"2006-11-21T04:58:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T10:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/21\/the-end-justifies-the-memes\/"},"modified":"2006-11-21T05:18:20","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T11:18:20","slug":"the-end-justifies-the-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"The End Justifies the Memes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, but I got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/archives\/007263.html\">this one from Red<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words that always look misspelled to me:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sergeant, Weird, cemetery<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words I enjoy saying:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>buncombe, barrage, scabrous, hamster, bollocks, vacuous, lambaste, donnybrook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words I enjoy hearing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You were right all along&#8221;, &#8220;On the house!&#8221;,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abbreviations I dislike:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;nbr&#8221; for &#8220;number&#8221;, &#8220;etc&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proper nouns I enjoy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phuket, Bannockburn, Ouistreham, Zap, Amelie,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words I associate with happiness:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>guitar, vacation, talk show (I know, a phrase.  So sue me).<br \/>\n<strong>Words I always misspell:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Weird, Vacuum (whaddya mean there&#8217;s only one &#8220;c&#8221;?).<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Words I enjoy spelling correctly, every time:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>Sphygmomanometer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words that, though I love their meaning, I\u2019m too embarrassed to say out loud:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t think of any.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words I can never remember the meaning of no matter how many times I look them up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Syllogism, Teleology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words that sound like what they mean:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>goulash, leprosy, abortion, phlegm, vellum, invincible, velvet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words that sound like something other than what they mean:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enervating.  Gets me every time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are some of your favorite words? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ethereal, ether, fart, guffaw, chard, talus, scree, chum, warm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your least favorite?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nubbin, Tomkat, Bebop (and Bebopareebop), boogie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, but I got this one from Red: Words that always look misspelled to me: Sergeant, Weird, cemetery Words I enjoy saying: buncombe, barrage, scabrous, hamster, bollocks, vacuous, lambaste, donnybrook. Words I enjoy hearing: &#8220;You were right all along&#8221;, &#8220;On the house!&#8221;, Abbreviations I dislike: &#8220;nbr&#8221; for &#8220;number&#8221;, &#8220;etc&#8221;. Proper nouns I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}