Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 11, 2019

Kate is more subtle than Danae but every once in a while she reminds us that the two are sisters.

I associate vestibules with old grocery stores where you had to go through 2 doors to get in. The tiny room between the 2 doors was called a vestibule. The weather also had to go through 2 doors to get in.

Some one asked to develop Kate’s character and Wiley obliged

Fortunately it is still in your ear and you can still get it out. Do it quick before it moves to the brain and then you are doomed.

Wait till Danae tries to give that to some teacher as the meaning of vestibule! It isn’t, really. A hallway is a passage connecting two or more rooms within a building; a vestibule, as sirbadger says, connects a room within a building to the outside and has a door at each end. In a residence, there would also usually be a closet for the coats or other “vestments” one might need to put on when going outside and put away when returning. That’s where the word comes from.

Whilst I love the character, her wit and worldliness, I’m beginning to think Kate doesn’t seem to do any exercise and her only past time is reading. She needs to get outside and smell the fresh air.

I’ve said this before, but there are a few tyrannical idiots I can think of who deserve Kate as an underling. Since she’s so effective against Danae, imagine what she could accomplish in the big leagues.

Wait until she hears “Baby Shark”.

Nothing’s more fun to say than sesquicentennial.

When she finds her ipad, Danae can look up vestibule and see that it’s really the hallway or room at the entrance of a building, not between two rooms. Then she can score one on Kate.

Danae thinks in ‘fireworks.’ Kate is subtlety personified.

Two kids after grade school sex ed class:

“I found a prophylactic under our davenport.”

“What’s a davenport?”

Gawd. There was a time I thought Gangnam Style was going to fester in my auditory canal

Try it with “Europe”. The more you say it, the sillier it sounds…

A few years ago NPR reported the winner of a juried search for "Most beautiful English language word: “Murmur.”

♫ More of us squealin’:

that’s what’s on our next record (if you go buy it). ♪ ♫

♪ It’ll wreck your hearin’.

And as thanks for the money you pay, ♫

♪ you’ll get an earworm that won’t go away-ayyyyy-AAYYYYYY ♫

I override most “earworms” with Slipknot. Works pretty good…

Little bit of trivia I heard t’other day: V is the only letter in the English alphabet that is NEVER silent. (My five favorite “fancy” words right now are: egregious, specious, disingenuous, spurious, and exigency.) I like vestibule, too. . .

Can you provide any words with a silent Z? What about Q?

In Brooklyn all the brownstone apartment houses had vestibules. They were at the top of the “Stoop.”

But I thought I saw it on the Davenport…

I know what a vestibule is, but had to Google “earworm.”

Fast forward 20 years…Kate will be the one calmly bailing Danae out of jail & dropping her off at rehab.

Earworm? Oh great. Now I have the Macarena stuck in my ear.

Arthur C. Clarke wrote a story about “earworms” back in 1957. It was called “The Ultimate Melody.”

As you can imagine, it relates to a melody you just cannot get out of your mind…

It was published in “Tales from the White Hart,” a really nice collection of stories.

One of the stories is “The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch.”

That was where I first learned the word defenestration.

Oh, and one of Clarke’s examples of melodies that get stuck in your mind was “The Third Man Theme.”

Wither thou goest, the zither followeth..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oEsWi88Qv0

Even the Beatles!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f88pCmSHaxc

However, for the most entertaining version of the Third Man Themesee the Andre Rieu version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjmU_J50xSo

Silliness ensues

In my columns I began writing to the readers at the 6th grade level, as we were taught. After a decade of dumbing-down, I decided to write at my level and let the reader use a dictionary if they needed one.

Ear worms, gah!! Been trying to get the song “Bohemian Rhapsody” out of my head for 40 years!

https://youtu.be/oE3OBiFflHI

Fraggle Rock as earworm!

The most evil earworm song: Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega

Or it’s a small world after all…

Vestibule is the Christian appropriation of the first part of the Hebrew tri-partite Temple area (gathering-preparation place, worshiper area, curtained-off priestly Holy of Holies).Nowadays it is the space between the entrance door into the church and the entrance door into the worship area proper. Catholics use it to shake off wet umbrellas and greet friends who happened to arrive at the same time. That area is employed by Christian Orthodox to purchase votive candles and spiritually prepare to enter into the dedicated worship space. In either case, ideally, it is serves as a special “liminal” space between leaving the secular ideals/values/ world and entering-ascending into a transcendent level. Sorry, I don’t know what that area is for Protestant Christians.

Kate is one mean little girl. But then, Danae deserves it sometimes.

Hobbes w/ Calvin: Smock, smock, smock, smock.

(Try it)

The vestibule. So much more than JUST a hallway.

And we’ve been calling Danae the evil one . . .

Vestibule? http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/john_betjeman/poems/785

Kate will ultimately wrest the power from Danae!

not if you were 30 when the smurfs started

As alluded to upthread, this one tops ’em all.https://youtu.be/0uuCNAwXGaQ?t=166