Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 01, 2011

Sigh, no time to look that up right now.

When Captain Haddock is especially perturbed, he exclaims, “Billions of billious, blue, blistering bibliobibuli!”

Regarding this:

http://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/2011/08/gender-stereotyping.html

JCPenney may have deleted that particular item from their online catalog, but they’re still offering this almost-as-demeaning item for just five dollars:

http://tinyurl.com/3b2esfa

I’d rather be a bilious bilby!

Hang down your head, frogapplause! This neologism, coined (sources say) by H.L. Mencken in 1957, would apparently be adjectival, rather than nominal; the singular would be *bibliobubulous (someone drunk on books).

Yesterday Teresa couldn’t even spell bibliobibuli. Today she are two or more.

T., if you construe bibliobibuli it as a genitive singular you should be fine: “one of those who become drunk on books” —a partitive gen., I believe.

Bibulus is the proper Latin form of the word, not “-ous”, by the way It was a Roman family name as well.L. Calpurnius Bibulus

Re: frog blog Elmo, I think that is actually Grover, Elmo is on the reverse page, he has a less round head. (and sorry if I’m adding to the whipping, love your lame blog, all things can be revised.

@Teresa: Bibliobibulus is such an uncommon word that you might have gotten away with simply saying nothing. Well, maybe not around this crowd o’ loons… but then, the entire ruddy world makes the same mistake with panini and nobody bats an eyelash. I can’t help ordering one panino, just to mess with people’s minds in the name of grammatical purity.

Nasty, nasty, nasti. You fight like little children. What button do I push for Family Circus?

Well, I certainly qualify. From all of us bibliobibuli to you, we thank you Teresa for teaching us wonderful new words.

Ooooh, can I do the whipping? I have always taken great pleasure in the pain and misery of others.

I know this won’t be a popular opinion, but I think people take things too seriously. The T-shirts are a joke. Laugh. Enjoy life. I have more faith in kids than most people. They get it. It’s a joke.

I believe we see so many endemic problems in society that people search desperately for the causes of the decline that we see. But the real root problems are so complex and so difficult that we latch on to simple answers… ban a T-shirt, and maybe the world is a little better. But it isn’t — it’s worse.

I thought the T-shirt was funny. I bet girls who wear it think it’s funny, too. Telling girls they can’t wear the T-shirt because they’re too stupid to figure out that it’s a joke and they need to be protected from the joke is more demeaning than the shirt itself.

Bibliobibulosity might induce borborygmous, halitosis and flatus.

too much effort to pronounce it, but it’s definitely me. 4-5 books a week….my legs are numb….gotta walk a mile every few chapters.

Rats! peachyanddanny beat me to “bibliobibulosity”. Huh!

Also, that said…. I would not want my daughters between the ages of 0-17 to wear that shirt because of its message…. even if they felt it ironically funny… because I would think too many people would not view it as ironic but actually as a (very wrong) truism.

@PipeTobacco — See, that’s where I disagree. I don’t think there’s anyone anywhere who would view it as a truism, but there were would be numerous people who would cluck-cluck about all those other unnamed people who don’t get the joke… :)

@Gaijinrabbit: I think that’s just the message in the strip, despite the discussion around the word itself. There is no such thing as blibbletyblobulus because it’s impossible to read too many books…

I suspect the singular would be bibliobibulum. I would vote for that.

I drink books every day… gotta get my R.D.A.

My, what a lot bibblebabble today.Most difficult job I ever had was as a proofreader seeing as how I can’t spel worth beens.

Reminicscences of bus travel here…

i’m going to try to be one, but i’ll just end up a pachyderm as always

I have problems with being a pachyrat…

At one time i would read a book a day. My daughter got me this computer and I havent finished one in a year. Must be progress.