Comments on: List XXVII http://www.thing-a-day.com/2008/02/29/list-xxvii/ knit cook draw paint tape write solder install destroy invent document Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:34:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: twickster http://www.thing-a-day.com/2008/02/29/list-xxvii/#comment-7254 twickster Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:56:48 +0000 http://www.thing-a-day.com/2008/02/29/list-xxvii/#comment-7254 Those are excellent! I wish I could draw, too. Those are excellent! I wish I could draw, too.

]]> By: Zyada http://www.thing-a-day.com/2008/02/29/list-xxvii/#comment-7253 Zyada Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:53:22 +0000 http://www.thing-a-day.com/2008/02/29/list-xxvii/#comment-7253 These made me wish I could draw because I saw good mental pictures but can't actually make them reality. Here are my pictures. Cereal A Roman goddess in the grocery store, holding a box of Cheerios or Special K Cupidity - A cupid at a craps table with a pile of chips in front of him, a couple of hot women on either side Erotic - to close to the original to get a good amusing picture Hermetic A roman god in a Mason Jar, trying to get out. Janitor An old guy pushing a broom, with one face looking at what he is doing, and a second one glaring at a kid with a drippy ice cream cone. Jovial - same problem as with "erotic" Martial Roman god (in toga) doing a karate chop that is breaking a board. Mercurial God melting into a shiny puddle a la Odo from DS9. Saturnalia A cocktail party where all the guests are ringed planets. Volcano Spock at an anvil shoeing a horse These made me wish I could draw because I saw good mental pictures but can’t actually make them reality. Here are my pictures.

Cereal
A Roman goddess in the grocery store, holding a box of Cheerios or Special K

Cupidity - A cupid at a craps table with a pile of chips in front of him, a couple of hot women on either side

Erotic - to close to the original to get a good amusing picture
Hermetic
A roman god in a Mason Jar, trying to get out.
Janitor
An old guy pushing a broom, with one face looking at what he is doing, and a second one glaring at a kid with a drippy ice cream cone.
Jovial - same problem as with “erotic”
Martial
Roman god (in toga) doing a karate chop that is breaking a board.
Mercurial
God melting into a shiny puddle a la Odo from DS9.
Saturnalia
A cocktail party where all the guests are ringed planets.
Volcano
Spock at an anvil shoeing a horse

]]> By: twickster http://www.thing-a-day.com/2008/02/29/list-xxvii/#comment-7227 twickster Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:50:41 +0000 http://www.thing-a-day.com/2008/02/29/list-xxvii/#comment-7227 You never heard of Franklin Volano Roosevelt? Yup, you got it -- and they're five Greek and five Roman. (The inspiration -- overhearing a coworker refer to someone whose last name is "Janitor.") You never heard of Franklin Volano Roosevelt?

Yup, you got it — and they’re five Greek and five Roman. (The inspiration — overhearing a coworker refer to someone whose last name is “Janitor.”)

]]> By: Zyada http://www.thing-a-day.com/2008/02/29/list-xxvii/#comment-7225 Zyada Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:46:51 +0000 http://www.thing-a-day.com/2008/02/29/list-xxvii/#comment-7225 For once, I can see exactly where this list came from! All of these words came from the names of gods. Are they all Roman gods? And, is that last one supposed to be Volcano? For once, I can see exactly where this list came from! All of these words came from the names of gods. Are they all Roman gods?

And, is that last one supposed to be Volcano?

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