Today's Word Challenge!

[weaktwos]

gadzookery (gad-ZOO-kuh-ree) noun

Use of archaic words or expressions, e.g. wight (brave),
prithee (I pray thee), ye (you, the).

[Apparently from gadzooks, once used as a mild oath, which may have been an alteration of God's hooks, a reference to the nails of Christ's crucifixion.]

I love this word! I shall embrace it during the times when I engage in such gadzookery. Like, when I say "gadzooks!", for example!

I drove in this morning behind a Subaru with the bumper stickers of:
Marriage = Man + Woman (using pictures of a man and woman).
and
Proud to be in one nation Under God.

This person also had a handicapped license plate. Do they give those things out for mental defectives? Oh, that was bad of me.

I was also sitting behind a Chrysler during another part of my commute. I can't look at a Chrysler the same way since taogrl and I saw the last part of the Cremaster Cycle. Ugh. What price art, I ask thee? (ding! gadzookery!)
I learned an important lesson that day. Well, a few. Number one, don't expect magic if you become obsessed with an artsy movie just because you see some cool poster of it in a subway in Paris. Number two, I know absolutely nothing about the masons and masonic symbolism. Do I regret it? Only for the two hours of the Cremaster Cycle.

Weight loss update: 21 lbs lost, baby!

Comments

[unclemilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that info. I had no idea there was a derevation of the word GADZOOKS (a word I have used with great freequency).

I have not seen this movie you are speaking of, but I tell you... those Masons are creepy. If you can find the comic book by Alan Moore entitled "From Hell", that has some random information about the Masonic Order. (From Hell is Alan Moore's comic book on Jack the Ripper. At the end of each book, he lists facts and information about many of the things that happen in the book... be they explanations of the Masonic Order, history, mythology, artists and paintings and how they relate to the conversation and the people having the conversation, and so on.)

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

I'll have to borrow my friend's copy of From Hell. Heh, I bought it for her birthday one year, I think.

As for the Cremaster Cycle, it's the type of movie played in Art Museums, like the Gugenheim. Don't strain yourself trying to view it, in my opinion.

[lunza.livejournal.com]

I saw one of those marriage bumper stickers too, and I wondered if it meant a man and a woman in the bathroom.

You could of course get two or three of those Marriage = [man] plus [woman] and cut two of them up and rearrange the symbols. :)

[dangermouse74.livejournal.com]

lol that cracked me up :-) nice. And kudos on the weight loss, good for you!

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. :-)