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@bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gySep 23, 2026, 8:14 AM

Futility Closet: “In a word”

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/09/22/in-a-word-714/

#FutilityCloset #Language #Vocabulary #Glorantha

@bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gySep 21, 2026, 11:39 AM

#Tax #FutilityCloset

Screenshot of FUTILITYCLOSET.com. White background headed with site name and logo of a monocled penguin in a top hat. Text: Morton's Fork – John Morton, Lord Chancellor under Henry VII, used a universal argument to demand gifts for the royal treasury: • If a man lived well, he was obviously rich. • If a man lived modestly, he obviously had savings. Either way, he could afford the tax. Francis Bacon wrote, "There is a tradition of a dilemma that Bishop Morton... used to raise up the benevolence to higher rates; and some called it his Fork."
@bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gySep 17, 2026, 3:36 PM

“I can remember my date of birth, but I cannot remember my full name.”

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/09/17/for-short-6/

#Fiji #Names #FutilityCloset

@bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gySep 9, 2026, 10:47 AM

#Poetry #FutilityCloset

Screenshot of futilitycloset.com. White page with site name alongside the logo of a monocle-wearing penguin with a top hat. Text: Oops. In 1848, English poet Arthur Hugh Clough named a new work The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, apparently thinking this was an innocent Gaelic place name. The Literary Gazette informed him that it means "the hut of the bearded well" - it's a Highland toast to the female genitalia. "Red-faced and embarrassed, Clough was nevertheless ribald enough to giggle delightedly over the appallingly ludicrous way in which he had introduced such unseemliness into 'all the drawing rooms and boudoirs (of course) of all the world,'" notes author Robindra Kumar Biswas. On republishing the poem, Clough changed the name to the appropriately meaningless Tober-na-Vuolich.