Ross TenEyck (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ross_teneyck) wrote,@ 2009-07-01 14:36:00 |
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Meme Mutation
Over onneko_san's journal, there's a meme with the rules:
Reply to this meme by yelling 'Words!' and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
...only she doesn't want to have to think of five words that remind her of people, and I don't blame her one bit.
But, I thought, it could be amusing to see what people do with random words. So here's the mutated meme:
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" (Or, really, any way you like.) I'll give you five randomly-generated words, and you post them in your LJ and do whatever you feel like with them.
(For the record, I grabbed a copy of /usr/dict/words off a Unix box, and I'm using PowerShell to pick words randomly from it. Meme propagators may use whatever method of randomly generating words they feel like.)
To kick things off, here are my five random words:
melancholy
fudge
Valhalla
centric
granary
Melancholy is an oddly pretty word; to me, it always has the connotation, "I'm depressed, but in a sort of poetic way rather than seriously." It also reminds me of an anime series I watched just recently, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which was pretty entertaining.
Fudge is yummy. There's a place on I-5 somewhere between LA and Sacramento that makes really good fudge. Or made; I have not, thank goodness, driven that road in years. I think it was called something about apricots. The place, not the fudge.
Valhalla, a.k.a. "heaven for jocks." Never sounded that appealing to me, plus I'm not particularly eager to die in battle.
Centric I rarely see as a standalone word (as opposed to a word component, e.g. concentric.) But my dictionary says it is one, with a number of specialized meanings, such as, "microbiology of radically symmetrical diatoms: describes diatoms which are radially symmetrical." So yeah.
Granary. It's probably the influence of too much Mythbusters, not to mention certain activities in college that shall remain discreetly undescribed, but honestly the first thing that comes to mind in relation to this word is "granary explosion." (Note to Homeland Security: Hi! Also: just kidding.) (Note to everyone else: ignore previous note.)
Over on
neko_san's journal, there's a meme with the rules:Reply to this meme by yelling 'Words!' and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
...only she doesn't want to have to think of five words that remind her of people, and I don't blame her one bit.
But, I thought, it could be amusing to see what people do with random words. So here's the mutated meme:
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" (Or, really, any way you like.) I'll give you five randomly-generated words, and you post them in your LJ and do whatever you feel like with them.
(For the record, I grabbed a copy of /usr/dict/words off a Unix box, and I'm using PowerShell to pick words randomly from it. Meme propagators may use whatever method of randomly generating words they feel like.)
To kick things off, here are my five random words:
melancholy
fudge
Valhalla
centric
granary
Melancholy is an oddly pretty word; to me, it always has the connotation, "I'm depressed, but in a sort of poetic way rather than seriously." It also reminds me of an anime series I watched just recently, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which was pretty entertaining.
Fudge is yummy. There's a place on I-5 somewhere between LA and Sacramento that makes really good fudge. Or made; I have not, thank goodness, driven that road in years. I think it was called something about apricots. The place, not the fudge.
Valhalla, a.k.a. "heaven for jocks." Never sounded that appealing to me, plus I'm not particularly eager to die in battle.
Centric I rarely see as a standalone word (as opposed to a word component, e.g. concentric.) But my dictionary says it is one, with a number of specialized meanings, such as, "microbiology of radically symmetrical diatoms: describes diatoms which are radially symmetrical." So yeah.
Granary. It's probably the influence of too much Mythbusters, not to mention certain activities in college that shall remain discreetly undescribed, but honestly the first thing that comes to mind in relation to this word is "granary explosion." (Note to Homeland Security: Hi! Also: just kidding.) (Note to everyone else: ignore previous note.)
