Radio has been making me laugh over the last six months.  In the middle of conversations she’ll drop in the line “Sounds onimous.”

I initially pointed out to her that she’d mispronounced the word, only to get back “That’s what I said: Onimous.”

“Yes, but the word is ‘ominous’.”

“‘Onimous.’  That’s what I said.  ‘Onimous.’”

Well this went on for months, every time Radio brought up the word.

She argued that if she had it wrong, a teacher would’ve corrected her.  They hadn’t, ergo she was correct.  It seemed to escape her notice that my teachers, by that logic, would also have corrected my long-time use of ‘ominous’ in that case, and that these are the same teachers who never corrected her use of ‘could of’.

Six months later things came to a head when we were walking through Biedenkopf in Germany.  The regular discussion arose when she again said that something ‘sounds onimous’.

I happened to have an English-Esperanto dictionary back at the base, so I proposed that we bet over the result.  The loser was to buy a book for the winner.

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Try as I might, I couldn’t come up with a catchy title that summed up the various threads that woven together will comprise this post, so I stole a little from Radio’s post on the same subject.

The Moosemobile is the name that Big J (”He’s big, and his name’s J“) gave to my car, in reference to an old nickname for me that he still uses, Moosedog.  (Now you know what that little drawing at the side of the Meddysong logo is )

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Heidi Dalibor, a 20-year-old resident of Grafton, Wisconsin, has the dubious distinction of having been arrested for not returning her library books.

Law enforcement gone too far? Opinions are divided.

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So I’ve been back in the UK after spending some time in Geneva. There are the usual images to take from the city that one would expect: the jet of water that shoots about 500 feet in the air, the backdrop of snow-topped mountains, much of that sort.

Yet these aren’t the abiding images I have.

Here’s “Meddysong’s Top 3 Strange Sights In Geneva”:

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