(urth) Fish and Caves

[Son of Witz]

parallelepipede
A new favorite word.
I was listening to a Captain Beefheart song in rememberance while looking it uo. Somehow it fit very nicely.

On Dec 23, 2010, at 8:22 AM, António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lee Berman wrote (22-12-2010 20:38):
> 
>> Yeah, sometimes what seems interesting in your own head comes out as a
>> bit hackeneyed and boring when translated to words. For me, anyway.
> 
> Sometimes we can't even spell it out and sometimes even if we do spell it
> out thoroughly nobody gets it. For instance, my beloved and I got an extractor hood for our kitchen that is, plainly speaking, a black upright parallelepipede, nothing more, nothing less. However, we don't seem to be able to eplxian that to anyone. When people who haven't yet seen it ask how it is, she says it's... a black upright parallelepipede, a black cube, a black box - you name it - and everyone gives a puzzled look, says uhhhm, and clearly thinks we didn't understand the question and are describing something else.
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