I seriously wouldn't try that at home

[freckles_and_doubt]

The Billboard Poet of the Daily Voice strikes again! This time, I must admit, I'm mystified.

WEE PEES ON LIONS

I can't find a likely organisation for which W.E.E. is the acronym, and cannot work out if the lions here are literal or if it's referring to the English rugby team. Either way, points for assonance, potty humour, and a mental image rife with both defiance and the potential for total disaster.

I've just finished Season 7 of X-Files. It's interesting, watching them off the DVDs like this - I'm realising how scrappy and incomplete my original experience was, missing probably more than half of the episodes when they were on TV. I'm very much appreciating the season arcs and character development, and the meta-plots actually make much more sense than I'd originally thought. Season 7 suffers slightly from anticlimax, with a couple of long-running plot threads tied up early in the season so that the rest of the episodes feel unfocused, slightly groping, without the engine of Samantha's disappearance or the machinations of the Syndicate. I also don't think the writing is quite up to scratch at times. Undying though my devotion is to Mulder and Scully, the Duchovny- and Anderson-scripted episodes were a tad flawed - "Hollywood A.D." in particular was just silly. On the other hand, it's given me quite my favourite feel-good ending of the series, with all the dead crawling out of their graves to do solemn, happy, beautiful ballroom dance on the deserted set. I don't know why the mental image should cause me so much pleasure, but it does.

I am distinctly unpleased to report that Sid is still rampant, and that in addition to the headache this iteration has given me a four-pack-a-day habit in tissues. However, I am now at home for a week to finish this indexing, so at least I won't have to give curriculum advice while students cower in the far corner of my office, repulsed by the levels of mucus.

Comments

Advantages of Mucus

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

I have this mental image of a student as a 'Wee Sleekit, couring, timorous beastie' now.

Re: Advantages of Mucus

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I suppose there's logic there, of a sort...

moist cats make good mops

[(Anonymous)]

As uninformed as I am about South African rugby, could it possibly be that Western Province (Wee-Pee *I cringe*) played the Lions recently?

Re: moist cats make good mops

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

Yup, that was my thought. As usual, the Voice's headlines are a mixture of Afrikaans and English pronounciations.

Re: moist cats make good mops

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

That makes sense, yes. Good call, both of you! The whole thing becomes a rather amusingly involuted word game, in the best Daily Voice billboard tradition.

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

All the best with the indexing. Hope Sid is back in his cage again soon.