Defining Definitions
Jun. 12th, 2007 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveusWe get occasional letters from Ben. In the latest, he shares a definition:
Contemplate mispronounced con-dum-plate.
I was coming back from lunch when I happened upon a few fellow inmates in their usual after-meal activity of smoking. When one of them asked why I had stopped, was looking at the mountains, and what I was doing, I said that I was just contemplating. The poor man was looking a little confused when one of our more educated looked at the confused man and said, trying to be helpful, "Con-dum-plate. Isn't that used in the schwaky hotels? They put a fancy tray by the bedside, with prophylactics on it. A condom plate."
...and in a final note:
Just remember that in here, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is an operating manual.
Ben Schragger, 5 May, 2007
Contemplate mispronounced con-dum-plate.
I was coming back from lunch when I happened upon a few fellow inmates in their usual after-meal activity of smoking. When one of them asked why I had stopped, was looking at the mountains, and what I was doing, I said that I was just contemplating. The poor man was looking a little confused when one of our more educated looked at the confused man and said, trying to be helpful, "Con-dum-plate. Isn't that used in the schwaky hotels? They put a fancy tray by the bedside, with prophylactics on it. A condom plate."
...and in a final note:
Just remember that in here, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is an operating manual.
Ben Schragger, 5 May, 2007
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Date: 2007-06-12 10:53 pm (UTC)...by the way, might I have his address? Now that I can write to him, and all...