Elegant tigers and nues, oh my!

[flemmings]

Have been occupied these last few days with les malheurs de la vie:

-snow, ice, people who don't shovel their walks unlike virtuous and arthritic me
-back to snow boots and gingerly inching over slippery sidewalks while my knees twinge, instead of happily sailing down streets on the bicycle
-a 2-days colic: non-productive internal gripes. Thought I'd popped my hernia for a bit. However it occasioned the drop of another kilo, so go me.
-terminal Dumb. Gel toothpaste in squeeze bottles is a godsend: doesn't gunk the way paste does, doen't require extreme force to get the last half of the paste out. Liquid soap in pump bottles is a godsend: doesn't turn into dirty mush in a soap dish that must periodically be scraped and boiled clean. But I've always known that one day I would confuse the two and yesterday I did.

But none of this matters because rasetsunyo translates Chinese lyrics and reveals at the same time that Yahoo in Chinese is 'elegant tiger': 雅虎搜索 (ya hu sou suo, Elegant Tiger Search).

Alas that it becomes 'gaku' in Japanese. If I were to ateji Yahoo in Japanese (which I needn't thanks to twice-blessed thrice-cursed katakana) what would it be? 夜夫 (night husband)? 野風 (field wind)? 爺冨 (old man's prosperity)? or the one IME doesn't give, 鵺瘋- a madness like that of the fearsome nue bird, with the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the tail of a snake and the legs of a tiger, that the guy in my icon killed.

Comments

[incandescens]

Regarding item number 4: eww, and much sympathy. Not that the other items don't occasion sympathy, but the mental image associated with item 4 is extremely vivid.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Fortunately my mind cut in before I had the brush right in my mouth- do you realize what you just did? But I got the whiff of it, certainly.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

I've done this with contact lens cleaner vs contact lens wetting solution (even though the bottles are different colors and sizes) AND put it in my eye. LOL!

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Ouch! - I've done that too! Bein' older, wiser and heh! Lazier now ^_^ I keep to my glasses.

Also mum says I don't need to show my pretty eyes anymore that I'm hitched! ^_~

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that carry a risk of blindiness? At least soap in the mouth is merely gag-worthy.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I suppose it does. Only it hurts so one immediately washes the eye out as throughly as possible.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Fortunately my mind cut in before I had the brush right in my mouth

Phew!

Go you indeed on losing the weight. Wish I could lose some too! However as she says, much sympathies. But...*is envious* - you know I don't know if I can ride a bike anymore. I haven't got on one in ten years I think!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Having kids will curtail the bicycling, unless you're Dutch. (I cannot *look* when our Dutch dad loads the tiny toddler into the front bike seat, the overgrown five-year old into the back bike seat, and takes off amidst Toronto's snow and aggressive drivers.) Or until the kids get older. But for flat-footed me, bicycling is the easiest and most painless form of transport available. Nor is it exercise: I lose weight in the winter when I can't bike and must walk.

(The kilo of course is back today, is how weght loss works.)