April 16, 2003

[General] Happy Birthday and made up words

One of the things that I seem to do a lot of these days is collect business cards. I collect sometimes 15 a day, sometimes 75 a week. Some of them are studiously business-like, some amazingly tacky. But, what they usually have in common is that usually the titles listed on them--you know, titles like owner or manager or associate or partner--usually these titles are actual English words.

But not today! Today I was handed a business card from someone purporting to be a cosmotogist.

Now, I am fairly certain that what this person actually is is a cosmetologist. Or a cosmologist, although that seems less likely.

But, to my actual point, how does that happen? How are you something and you can't even spell what you are?

"Hi, I'm Joe. I'm a firefider. Have you met my cousin Lindsey? She's a nerse. Her husband? Why, Bob's an acownent."

Cosmotogist.

Boing.

And, now, the OHBTI, to , who taught me how to use that word, 'boing': May your days be filled with radishes. And your nights with pretty cosmotogists.

Posted by Lori at April 16, 2003 1:06 PM