Daily Connotations

Daily Connotations

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Connotation. 1. a. The configuration of suggestive or associative implications consitiuting the general sense of an abstract espression beyond its literal, explicit sense. b. A secondary meaning suggested by a word in addition to its literal meaning. 3. Logic The total of the attributes constituting the meaning of a term.

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Sven Bjorn Borg: Sven has been with d-con since its humble beginnings, and is responsible for punctuating, finances, guarding the office from rabid dogs and loud noises, and acting as mediator amongst the other members. Dr. Borge is well-known as the world's foremost (and perhaps only) underwater-basket-weaving expert. Sven has recently published no less than 3 books, Klingon Grammar and Vocabulary for humans, Life among the Grapes, and Escher, Bach, Gödel: A gigantic elastic bungalow. In it's copious spare time, the Sven enjoys playing the harpsichord and diagramming sentences. Sven is Chief of Staff and Director of Intelligence in the UPICN,LLC.
Dr. Bob William "The Orange" Lavoisier a.k.a. Dr. Henry Parsons: Dr. N, as we like to call him, is officially the initiator of the Daily Connotations Company, and also holds important Offices in the VVIIPP society of America and The Department of Redundancy Department, which is a place where he holds an important office in the department of redundancy. Henry also spent a good deal of his life studying the behavior of Walruses (Walri?) in the wild, inspired by a long-running correspondence with Mr. J. Lennon, who, in fact, convinced "The Orange" that he was, in fact, a walrus. Dr. Parsons' curriculum vitae is rounded out by his extensive family history (including a brother, Alan), and double Ph.D. honors in Botany and the Study of Scandinavian Languages. Recently, Dr. Henry Parsons was elected president of the UPICN,LLC
The Doctor a.k.a. Dr. What??: Dr. What joins us now as a member of d-Con in very good standing. It is important that the doctor not be confused with his slightly-more-popular brother, Doctor Who, who has carved a niche for himself in the field of time travel. Dr. What never developed the talent for time travel, and has the ability to visit only two distinct temporal locations: The beheading of John the Baptist and that one time when Stanley met Livingstone (or was it Livingstone met Stanley?) Consequently, he spends much of his time knitting (the scarves, natch) on the planet Gallifrey whilst (and at the same time) contemplating Nietzschean philosophies and memorizing much of Immanuel Kant's work, both in the original German.
Dr. Phelealabean: Dr. Phelealabean also uses the alias Dr. Olga Olathe Parsons-Uhlmer. Dr. Parsons-Uhlmer is a sister to Henry and Alan. She has a dual honorary doctorate in Arabian Literature and Language. She also has teaching experience at the University of Rekjavik which was held in a small grass-covered hut. She iswidowed after an incident involving her husband and abandonment which she is not allowed to discuss pending criminal charges. Now that she is alone, she enjoys spending summers with her brother, Henry, in his summer home, The Parsonon.

7.31.2004

A List
Blog-style:
Connotate
Daily
Entropy
Flagon
Goals
Horkheimer
Interrogate
Julep
Kinosphere
Limberlost
Minions
Narnia
Osteopath
Pirates
Quandary
Ritalin
Studebaker
Tardis
Ÿbermensch
Vitamins
Wistful
Xenophobia
Yossarian
Zed

--Posted by s. on Saturday, July 31, 2004.

discombobulated

--Posted by s. on Saturday, July 31, 2004.

7.30.2004

quixotic

(try that one next time you play scrabble!)

--Posted by s. on Friday, July 30, 2004.

7.29.2004

Behind again.....tis be my life!

28th-Metacognition
29th-Rapprochement

I felt like capitalizing, that's why!

--Dr. Henry Parsons

--Posted by Kelly D. Norris on Thursday, July 29, 2004.

7.27.2004

Again, apologies for my tardiness:

26th--Reticent
27th--denouement

--Posted by Kelly D. Norris on Tuesday, July 27, 2004.

7.25.2004

Word of the Day:

unprepossessing

--Posted by Kelly D. Norris on Sunday, July 25, 2004.

asp

--Posted by s. on Sunday, July 25, 2004.

7.24.2004

Greetings,

Due to technical and scheduling malfunctions on my end of the spectrum I was unable to post yesterday's word. I have combined yesterday's and today's posting into one. They are as follows:

FRIDAY: ubiquitous
SATURDAY: diaphanous

--Dr. Henry Parsons
blah....blah.....ok just admit it.......I am too important to even bother typing it! ;)

--Posted by Kelly D. Norris on Saturday, July 24, 2004.

imbroglio

--Posted by s. on Saturday, July 24, 2004.

7.22.2004

Greetings all,

I have recently had a thought that "resurfaced" amongst the interstate highways of my brain. Each day for the next week I will post a word; any word that I choose. I am not sure why posting a word amuses me but I would encourage others to do the same for the next week (remember, only one each day). Perhaps at the end of the week we can compose some sort of biographical essay about George Bush or Yasser Arafat using these words. Today's word:

Discombobulation.

--Dr. Henry Parsons (who by the way has just attained his second doctoral degree (Soil Science) with the following dissertation: Studies in Excavations: The World Beneath Our Feet or The World Beneath Our Scummy Little Toes)
Assistant Professor of Statistical English
Maximilliam State College of the Arts
Bruckeheimer, Maine
Certified Speech Teacher and Judge
Accredited member:
Very, Very, Intelligent, Important, Perfect, People's Association of America
PSA: Procrastinator's Society of America
Maximilliam State College of the Arts-Faculty Senate
Speech Teachers and Coaches Organization ("Stuco")
United League of Language Musicians

--Posted by Kelly D. Norris on Thursday, July 22, 2004.

7.17.2004

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

I seem to have forgotten my manners - an introduction must needs be in order.

Inspector Gregor D'Iven, at your service. Interrogationer Extraordinaire. Ineffectual Intellectual. Errant Errand-boy.

I live now in a small village north of Duluth, but I was reared in Tannu Tuva, son of a Russian peasant-woman and a wandering gypsy roustabout. Today I make a bit of money now and then performing random acts of plumbing artistry and electrically engineering feet. My feet are well known across the county - best feet above the ground, they say. Of course, the best feet below the ground (six feet below, to be precise), are those of Allan Ishkabibble, my mentor and Rabbi (may he rest in peace).

When I was twenty-six, I met the woman who would spend the next six years with me, Alice "Little" Carroll. She was bright, but not too beautiful. Unfortunately, my doll-ink Alice was killed at the tender age of twenty-seven by an American tourist in the beautiful city of Ulm, Germany, who was too drunk to tell the road from the sidewalk. The only form of identification she had was a post card from me with a picture of St.Petersburg on the front and the delightful inscription
Alice- Wish you were lovely - weather is here! -G.
It took the German police three weeks to find any of her kinsmen.

Enough about me, how about something about my pets?

A small joke. But seriously, forks, signing off.

Over and out.
10-4 good buddy,
Roger Wilco
and Goom-bye !

--Posted by s. on Saturday, July 17, 2004.

7.12.2004

It's interesting, you know. .

What responsibility do WE have to mold the "morality" of our government? On the one hand, America is just too big - what can one person do to make it be right? (And then there's the whole tolerance/diversity issue - what's right for me may not be right for everyone.) On the other hand, it is socially irresponsible for us to let the world continue happily along in its handbasket, neh?

If a moralist were to live correctly as an individual, but to do nothing about society's ills, will God blast them along with the rest of their culture (or perhaps, can he/she justifibly claim a clean conscience?)? If you're morally opposed to something (the war in Iraq, abortion, etc, etc.) but don't even try to do anything about it, how deep is your opposition? Are you being truthful with yourself? Or is your supposed "moral high ground" merely a status marking?

America is a nation founded on the principle of government by the people. Therefore, I see no other conclusion than WE are responsible, at least indirectly, for the actions of our government. Not that the actions of the culture are basis for immediate damnation - but that we do have the responsibility to at least try to influence society for the better. Apathy only works in dictatorships - Democracy requires strong public interest and participation, otherwise it becomes a functional dictatorship.

--Posted by s. on Monday, July 12, 2004.

7.04.2004

it will be a great day
when
our schools
get all the money
they need

and the air force
hast to hold
a bake sale
to buy a
bomber

US government spending (FY'04 proposed):

WAR: $399 BILLION
(does not include $150 billion for Iraq war)

EDUCATION: $21 BILLION

--Posted by s. on Sunday, July 04, 2004.