The Barn by Ralph Hagen for September 02, 2011

Now Rory is really mad!

Was it Juanita?

Ignorance is bliss Rory is happy.

Stan is so smart.

Except….. well, stolid can mean apathetic, yeah, though it’s more like impassive —

Maybe feeling it, but not showing it.

In any case it doesn’t mean stupid and it’s not much of an insult.

So Stan’s just stirring it up.Life gets boring standing around in a field.

And hi Darryl :)

What’s the difference between ignorance and apathy?Who knows, who cares?Actually, one should think Rory, the little rascal, would be the absolute antipode of stolid.

Interestingly, the thesaurus also gives the word “bovine”. Something else Rory definitely isn’t.

Well, it is not a happy comment: Synonyms: blunt, bovine, dense, doltish, dry, dull, dumb, heavy, impassive, inactive, indifferent, inert, lumpish, matter-of-fact, obtuse, passive, phlegmatic, slow, stoic, supine, unemotional, unexcitable, wooden

Now Rory is Not Stolid.

Rory should just point out the other person can’t spell – “solid” doesn’t have a T in it.

Right, Night-Gaunt.

One difference between a thesaurus and a dictionary is that only the latter restricts itself to the actual definition.

The thesaurus lists, along with actual synonyms, every word the editors can come up with that your word could possibly allude to or connote, in case one of them is closer to what you really meant.

You’re supposed to use a dictionary if you don’t know the exact meanings, so you don’t substitute incorrectly.

Dense for stolid is incorrect, but someone may have meant to say dense when he could only think of stolid.

Sorry for the pedantry, but I’m a little stolid today. LOL.

stolid as a rock

Maybe someone insulted Stan by calling him stolid and Rory is defending his honor? Cause Rory can in no way be called stolid….

Stolid: calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation.