And speaking of things and titles, today I listened to episode 15 of the excellent podcast, A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou which concerned Ursula K. Le Guin's story, Things, which is about as generic a title as one could hope for. The podcast's title, however, is magnificent. I don't know if I've mentioned it here before, but I've always wanted to do something with the title, A Loaf of Spam, A Jug of Flapple, and Thou, though I don't know if I ever will. Flapple is, of course, the term coined by the immortal Fred Sanford for flat Ripple.
In looking up the Wikipedia entry for Fred Sanford, so I could link it here, I noticed at the bottom that there is a Wikipedia category called Fictional junk dealers. Which leads me to wonder if there's one called, Are you fucking serious? In case you're wondering, there isn't. I just checked. The big W asked me, "Did you mean: are you flying serious?" Yes, that's what I meant. Are you flying serious?
Stupid Big W.
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