Today's title is a palindrome--or, y'know, it would be if we didn't refer to ourselves as "we."
As COS pointed out, today is National Palindrome Day. A palindrome, of course, is a word spelled the same forwards and backwards (e.g., civic, radar, wow). Today's date--01/02/2010--works much the same way, at least in the U.S. In third world backwaters like Germany, today is 02/01/2010, which is just stupid. THEY won't celebrate NPD until February 1. Losers.
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Yesteday's comments contained the following from "Anonymous":
"A solipsist would not bother creating a site when there is no internet on which to construct it and no keyboard on which to type non-existent letters into meaningless words that will not exist. You, sir or madam, are a pretender to the throne."
Pretender, huh? Big words from someone claiming to be "Anonymous". . . WHOSE COMMENT APPEARS THREE SPACES BELOW SOMEONE NAMED "ANONYMOUS." Still, such calumny must not go unaddressed.
A "Solipsist," as a quick glance at the "Solipsistic Glossary" will confirm, is "one who believes that nothing exists but oneself." From our humble perch in the blogosphere, we glance out upon a world that often seems unmanageable, chaotic, and downright unpleasant. We choose to exert control over that tiny part of the world that falls within our purview: This space. In doing so, we create a reality--a world--Solipsist Nation, if you will.
Does anything exist outside this world? Who knows? Perhaps you, sir or madam, are merely the manifestation of our own need to create a yang to our yin, a right to our left, a Bert to our Ernie. We merely point out that THIS world did not exist until we created it. If that makes us not-a-Solipsist, so be it. It does, however, make us a GOD!
Go in peace.
Needless to say, the second "Anonymous" is not I, the true, the one, the only, Anonymous. You can tell this by the fact that what A2 says has two tragic flaws. Flaw the 1st is that the sentence is vague, blurred, and makes no valid point. Flaw B is that I (A1... so good they name a sauce after it) said it first, well over a year ago to the day. Moreover, National Palindrome Day ought be called naught but by its Hebrew name: Yad Emor D'nil Ap.
ReplyDeleteDad, Mom, Sis, Eve, Bob, Nan, Otto,
ReplyDeleteSit on a potato pan, Otis.
------Sus
Wow, I never thought of looking up the definition of Solipsist. I thought it was someone who played with words and left it at that. It was a satisfactory definition.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget the Human Palindromes: Cheney, Limbaugh, & Beck. They're schmucks ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT THEM!
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