Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 29, 2015

What a catty comment.

He looks like someone I know—even to the shimmering eyes!

The light in his eyes…

His eyes have inclusions? that are lit?STOP IT I’m tired of having to stop and look things up! Sheesh!

There isn’t a “666” under that biretta, is there?

In gemology, chatoyancy (/ʃəˈtɔɪ.ənsi/ shə-toy-ən-see), or chatoyance or cat’s eye effect, is an optical reflectance effect seen in certain gemstones. Coined from the French “œil de chat,” meaning “cat’s eye,” chatoyancy arises either from the fibrous structure of a material, as in tiger’s eye quartz, or from fibrous inclusions or cavities within the stone, as in cat’s eye chrysoberyl.- Wikipedia

Looks like a still from the Bells of Saint Mewy’s.

Was it the tilde? ~.Just left of the 1, shifted.So, just left of the ! then.Flash photos often show reflectivity from the eyes of the people being photographed. You can often identify animals in the dark by the reflective colors of their eyes.Opossum’s eyes glow orange, for instance.

OK…. more simply put, chatoyancy happens when a material such as stone, glass, shell or even wood, crystallizes with (usually microscopic) “fibers” inside that reflect light in bands. It might have one axis, like the semiprecious stone “tiger eye”

Or several, like a star sapphire or star ruby…

The word came from French, from its resemblance to the fibrous light reflection in a cat’s eye.

HTH

I have a key on my keyboard for that “squiggle”

That explains the “glint” in his eyes!!! and here I thought he was just a merry old soul.

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First, Brooke sends me rushing to the dictionary with “paskudnyak.” Now, Teresa sends me scuttling right back again with “chatoyant.” I have been doubly educated by the funnies – who says the comics are of no worth?

Could this be why Putin is eating Obama’s lunch?

Ooh ick!

♪ … So good-bye, good-bye blind eye I’m going to find me, find me a cat’s eye Oh, good-bye, good-bye blind eye I know what I want to see… ♪ ~ Suzi Quatro “Cat Size.” (A very beautiful ballad by a Detroit-born girl, which meant a lot to my husband, for reasons I won’t trouble you with.)

Wow, name-checked (repeatedly) on Frog Applause!Stop it! I’ll get a swelled…head.