Thursday, May 12, 2011

I won't say I'm getting desperate...

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...but some days a fella will kiss anything.



8 comments:

  1. Were you on a wild life tour - or did you just snatch that up from the ground?

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  2. David: Neither. I was out in the desert on the weekly expats' hike and one of the locals brought out his snake collection. I wonder what one calls a person who raises reptiles..."snake rancher"? "snake wrangler"? "snake handler"? "Man of many snakes"?

    The snake (this one anyway) was quite safe to play with.

    In fact we have a date next week. Dinner and a movie...Snakes on a plane. Not sure what the dinner will be; probably something involving mice.

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  3. This might be a good time to review verbs:
    http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3235

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  4. I don't need no steenking verbs. Especially from my alma mater.

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  5. You went to school in Edinburgh? But I agree Geoffrey Pullum can be irritating, to say the least.

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  6. UPenn (University of Pennsylvania)

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  7. I take it you don't approve of Pullum's take on reptiles. I'm not anti-snake myself -- I've kissed plenty of snakes in my day, and I'm not talking about the two-legged kind either. This one is absolutely gorgeous. But everything I know about snakes in Arabia I learned from T.E Lawrence. Just sayin'.

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  8. Are you talking about metaphorical snake kissing? How many legs do these receivees have?

    I've moved on from snakes anyway. Lizards are my thing.

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