Author: Nada Gordon

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ululate

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Hey, this was the word of the day just a few days ago!

  • ululate
  • audio pronunciation
  • \ULL-yuh-layt\
  • DEFINITION
verb
: howl, wail
  • EXAMPLES
The puppy ululated in distress every time he was left alone.

“[Singer] Sussan Deyhim is one of Iran’s most potent voices in exile, for the simple reason that she possesses a marvelously potent voice. She wails and coos and ululates, the sound of the soul in translation.” — From a music review in the Los Angeles Times, September 13, 2010

  • DID YOU KNOW?

“When other birds are still, the screech owls take up the strain, like mourning women their ancient u-lu-lu.” When Henry David Thoreau used “u-lu-lu” to imitate the cry of screech owls and mourning women in that particular passage from his book Walden, he was re-enacting the etymology of “ululate” (a word he likely knew). “Ululate” descends from the Latin verb “ululare.” That Latin root carried the same meaning as our modern English word, and it likely originated in the echoes of the rhythmic wailing sound associated with it. Even today, “ululate” often refers to ritualistic or expressive wailing performed at times of mourning or celebration or used to show approval.

I Love Men redux

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OK, so I know there’s been a lot of misandry (misandrousness?) on this blog lately.  I know that just because I’m angry at one man, or two, or a half dozen or so, doesn’t make the whole lot of them lousy.  I’ve been sending interested parties from Nerve.com over to this blog so that they can find out too much about me, and it really won’t do for them to only see this recent streak of hostility.  So let me remind you, to parrot Eartha Kitt, I Love Men, and here I am declaiming that fact to an audience of hundreds (btw I made this dress, and I’m skinnier now):

You Have to Look Past the Sausage

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Not all men are predators just the majority of them you have to look past the sausage
the men are predators who wait for the young girls to be released from the orphanage
“Men are predators.” Women face cosmetics endorsed his face, “but then, cool-looking satyr satyr is usually not known.” “What is it called?
Skirts and hair are short or long, breasts are in or out, women are “barracudas” or, as today, men are “predators.”
women know it but they also know that men are predators and have a dark side
Cosmetologically speaking, men are predators, women are domesticators. Shamanism, for males, is the paradigmatic complement to female pottery manufacture
yep again..all ‘strange’ men are predators
men are predators not goofy misguided cartoon fodder
in a metaphor like “men are like wolves,” how is the way in which wolves are predators different from the way in which men are predators?
men are predators and women are preys
Also, men are predators of blue whales.

so lonesome :-(

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I’m so lonesome I could just spit, sh-boom, sh-boom
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cryogenically Freeze Myself.
I’m So Lonesome I Could Clean
I’m So Lonesome I Could Sniff Things
I’m so lonesome I could Smile?
I’m So Lonesome I Could Bray
I’m so lonesome I could yodel
I’m so lonesome I could snuggle up to a porcupine.
I’m so lonesome I could draw an avocado.
I’m so lonesome I could screeeeam! Beepbeepbeepbeep! Nobody home. Beepbeepbeepbeep! I’m all alone. Beepbeepbeepbeep! Wait for the tone. Beepbeepbeepbeep!

Men Are Creepy!

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I finally understand why women find men so creepy
What’s Worse: Slutty Women or Creepy Men?
Scottish men are creepy
Old white men are creepy
New York Times Shocker — Creepy Old Men Like Young Asian Women
And yes, many men ARE creepy. Avoid.
And one of the reasons needy men are creepy is because they can quickly turn angry when their needs are not met.
how come old white men are creepy, why don’t they just go to their girlfriends & wives and bother them?
well i think that mountain men are creepy
And because the men are creepy, the prostitutes tend to be equally as creepy.
Shoe – creepy men are creepy men.
No creepy man, smiling at me doesn’t make you less creepy. creepy men are creepy.
Not all men are creepy predator’s little green men are creepy .
White men are creepy for having positive feelings about asian culture.
Its ok to be a critically acclaimed mommy artist from documenting your children in the nude because only men are creepy.
Nothing really intellectually engaging here, it’s just that ice cream men are creepy and their trucks are damn annoying!