Twelve days of Xmas

[altariel]

On the twelfth day of Christmas, altariel1 sent to me...

Twelve domed cities drumming

Eleven hermeneutics piping

Ten daleks a-leaping

Nine dystopias dancing

Eight utopias a-milking

Seven penguins a-swimming

Six hattifatteners a-writing

Five fo-o-o-our quartets

Four star cops

Three fabulous skies

Two persephone books

...and a cactilinear in a q-methodology.

Get your own Twelve Days:

Comments

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

I don't know about you, but hermeneutics piping always give me a headache.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Particularly with a Xmas hangover.

I can't decide...

[(Anonymous)]

Whether I'm more enamored of five four quartets or the cactilinear in a q-methodology. I'm not even certain what a cactilinear is, but it sounds prickly! And a q-methodology tree just sounds neat.

Dwim

Re: I can't decide...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

"Cactilinear" is a word I heard on a radio series called Professor Nebulous, who investigated various weird thing. He described a half-man half-cactus as "humanoid... or cactilinear."

The five four quartets are my favourite. I'm imagining the content of the missing fifth one already...

Re: I can't decide...

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

LOL. That's fantastic. I actually collect things that someone can be half of - my favourites so far are (to describe a bodybuilder) 'Half Man, Half Biscuit' and (to describe a friend of ours whose surname is Ing) 'Part Man, Part Participle'. The alliteration there helps.

Re: I can't decide...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Particle Man! "When he's in water does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?"

Wasn't Half Man Half Biscuit a band in the 80s and 90s?

Re: I can't decide...

[(Anonymous)]

He described a half-man half-cactus as "humanoid... or cactilinear."

You mean it really does have to do with a cactus? I was thinking it *had* to be some sort of linguistic conspiracy, designed to make you think of something that would ultimately bear no relation to the actual definition.

Do let us know if the fifth quartet comes to you.

Dwim

Re: I can't decide...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think we should feel free to use 'cactilinear' in all situations where cactisimilitude is of significance, whether or not there is actual succulent-correlation.


Do let us know if the fifth quartet comes to you.

I was doing really well, and then a man from Porlock knocked on the door and kept me busy just long enough until I forgot what I'd planned to write.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I don't know what's better, the a-leaping Daleks or the five four quartets.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The whole thing is joyous, but the five four quartets do it for me.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

...but which four star cops? That's the important question!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Spring, Kenzie, Devis and... um, Space Inspector Morse?

And thank you for my Christmas card, which arrived today :-D

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Oh, good! That's extremely speedy for Canada Post.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Oh my!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Quartets and Starcops and Daleks oh my!

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

Yay, leaping daleks. That I want to see.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly graceful!

[(Anonymous)]

Floats like a butterfly, stings like a killer bee?

dwim

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And exterminates like a metal-encased killing machine!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's wonderful! I've resorted to having Vila send me things.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It's all so charmingly bizarre!

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

That is so much better than mine. Although, what on earth is a cactilinear? I'd kind of like it to be an adjective meaning, 'as straight as a cactus'. As in, 'Why, Avon, you're looking particularly cactilinear in those leather trousers.'

[altariel.livejournal.com]

'as straight as a cactus'. As in, 'Why, Avon, you're looking particularly cactilinear in those leather trousers.'

*snorfle!*

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

I think I might be slightly concerned by the drumming of the domed cities

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It's the sound of rain on the roof.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Generosity itself!

Dystopias are clearly the way they are because of their decadence and dancing. Utopias, on the other hand, are good, hard-working and useful. Hmm, I don't know about you, but I'm with the dancing.

I just hope you're not going to leave those hermeneutics piping all night. Some of us are trying to sleep.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Myself, I'm for the leaping.

Hermeneutics are tucked away in bed like all good children.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Go the hattifatteners!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Well the poor little things can't talk.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

LOL!