usage notes

How to speak correctly.

• Ukraine, not the Ukraine.
• Czechia, not "Czech Republic". This isn't absolute, and even the official government web pages backed off from that usage in 2005, but it's a shame. Mr. G. Z. T. is on a one-man crusade to revive it and will defenestrate anybody who disagrees.
• "How do you do" during introductions is not a question and should not be intoned or answered as such.
• A recent editorial decision at The Panheresy was made to always say Godspeed and never good luck nor other such degenerate secularized benedictions save in contexts with enforced laïcisme. The Panheresy encourages you to do the same.

fingers in ears

"Life, life, eternal life?"

because nick asked for it

I am forced to admit that I once got something worthwhile from a log. But anyways: this was brought up because I got tricked into agreeing to go to some dance performance like Charlie the Unicorn and I think I need somebody to chaperone me as both dancing and the theatre are immoral. Any takers?

Useful advice if taken with humility

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

Let it be said that I do not object to the judicious application of the rod if I should ever deserve it.

les fleurs

La planète suivante était habitée par un buveur. Cette visite fut très courte mais elle plongea le petit prince dans une grande mélancolie:
--Que fais-tu la? dit-il au buveur, qu'il trouva installé en silence devant une collection de bouteilles vides et une collection de bouteilles pleines.
--Je bois, répondit le buveur, d'un air lugubre.
--Pourquois bois-tu? lui démanda le petit prince.
--Pour oublier, répondit le buveur.
--Pour oublier quoi? s'enquit le petit prince qui déjà plaignait.
--Pour oublier que j'ai honte, avoua le buveur en baissant la tête.
--Honte de quoi? s'informa le petit prince qui désirait le secourir.
--Honte de boire! acheva le buveur qui s'enferma definitivement dans le silence.
Et le petit prince s'en fut, perplexe.
Les grandes personnes sont decidement très très bizarres, se disait-il en lui-même durant le voyage.

ATTN: UPSING INFIDEL WHO TRIED TO DELIVER MY PACKAGES ON APRIL 17TH

YOU SUCK.

I had two packages due to come on April 17th: a couple shirts that were on sale and a book I need to prepare for my second actuarial exam about a month from today. I also had orders delivered almost every other day that week to the exact same address because they were ordered from the same vendors. YET, the delivery man on the 17th said an exception occurred, the address I am at does not exist or something, so he'll send a postcard to that address (which doesn't exist? I never received it) with instructions on what to do and then return my packages to the sender! So here I am, it'll be two weeks after I was supposed to get my packages when I finally do get the book I need, two weeks of precious studying time. I had packages delivered by UPS to that very address every other day that week! Is the problem with my address? I AM THINKING NO. IT IS WITH THE MAN WHO TRIED TO DELIVER MY PACKAGES ON APRIL 17TH. I AM POSTING THIS ON ALL MY BLOGS BECAUSE HE SUCKS SO HARD.