2001-03-16 - 6:23pm
So one of my little pet peeves is people who make big dramatic points about concepts and the world at large based upon the spelling of a word. For example, when I was in college, a woman from the Eating Disorder Outreach Group on campus posted signs on our hallway proclaiming "the word ‘DIET’ contains the word ‘DIE’."
My response, of course, written on a few of these posters, was "the word ‘FUNERAL’ contains the word ‘FUN’. What’s your point?" She was not amused. (It didn’t help, of course, that the woman who put up these signs in our hall was a Blonde Amazon Goddess who (a) I am automatically hardwired to hate and (b) attracted the attention of the guy I liked much more effectively than I ever could.)
So you can imagine my response to Julia Roberts' tirade against George W. Bush, in which she said "Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant... I looked up Democrat. It's of the people, by the people, for the people."
Keeping my personal beliefs about the President out of it, a Republican could easily say "Democrat comes in the dictionary just after demiurge* and just before demodulate**. I looked up Republican. It’s ‘a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law’."
Also, if anyone can find me a dictionary that defines "Democrat" as "of the people, by the people, for the people", please let me know. That's what they teach you in second grade.
*something that is an autonomous creative force or decisive power
**to extract the intelligence from
(this message comes to you courtesy of HRH Miffy III. Yay!)
