Don't you love euphemistic advertising? Take those ads for nappies. Or diapers as I think the American cousins call them. Just as they pronounce aluminium nothing remotely like it's spelled. Yet, paradoxically, they pronounce the word colour exactly as it's spelled - or, at least, the way it's properly spelled, which, in a further paradox, isn't how they spell it.
Color. Color isn't a word. It's very nearly a word. One more vowel and it would be. So near, so far.
But I digress. Ads for nappies. I've never seen blue wee-wee in my life. Mine is either clear or pale yellow or other varying shades of yellow depending how much yellow cordial I've drunk. Yet take any ad for nappies that purports to show their absorbency. The liquid is always blue. Blue wee-wee? Has the bub swallowed a bottle of blue ink?
But I digress yet again. Modesty is, in fact, a virtue. Which, come to think of it, sounds like a new model of car.
It's something you're either born with or you're not.
I was.
And I'm not too immodest to admit it.
Praise me and I blush. Though you'll have to take my word for it on the basis that my blush is buried beneath a couple of feet and half a stone of boofy hair, thus:
This week I was given cause to blush. Trust me I blushed.
This week I was awarded a Special Mention in artista Katherine Tyrrell's Making a Mark Awards on her Making a Mark art blog. Scroll down to '"The Moose" Award for the best animal in an illustrated blog' and you'll find me. Adjacent to a whole feast of cats - a feast of cats is my collective noun for the soulless sociopathic creatures - but beggars can't be choosers when it comes to fame.
Katherine describes me as "rather charming if somewhat gruff". It's somewhat of an achievement to be both right and wrong within the space of five words, Katherine.
But I thank you from the bottom of my boofy heart.
As for spelling my name wrongly, two can play that game, Catherine.
2 comments:
I would respect the AWARD a bit more if it were awarded to someone who actually posts on a regular basis. You? You're usually lying around waiting for scraps to fall, for neighbors to pity you, for bones to appear. Shouldn't awards go to pets that do something clever?
Maybe Barbara needs a blog?
Living like a King without ever having to lift a paw isn't clever?
Barbra lacks opposable thumbs. Along with a personality.
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