Well, I guess it's about time I got into this glob thing. I like words. I also like making fun of words sometimes, so ... The long form of the word "glob" is "globule" (actually, that's not really true - "globule" means a small spherical mass or something like that) anyhow, when I contemplated "globule" I thought of "pilule". This will likely be a small glob (globule).
Some years ago, Mahoney and I were at a party with my co-workers at Sperry Univac and we played this cool game using unknown words from the dictionary. It was a team game with each team trying to identify which person on the other team was giving the real definition of the word. Pilule actually means "a little pill", although the guy who got the most votes for giving the real definition said that pilule meant "wetting the bed" (at least that is the definition I remember the best because he was so matter-of-fact about it).
Anyhow, it's not really globulinpilule (although missionaries who have served in South America might have fond memories of gamma globulin). It's full name is "Globule and Pilule" (globule_n_pilule for short and globulinpilule for really short 'cuz they won't let you put the _ things in the web address. And 'cuz the really word globulin is spelled with an "i", not an "e"). Even though this glob is nothing about globulin, or pilules.
That's all I can stand for today.
Take care!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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