Another weekend, another Sardonic Saturday on The Daily Quota - where every silver lining has a cloud.
As fate would have it, I had only discovered of National Curmudgeon Day a week after it had happened. Curse the Gods, I would have made an event out of it!
If you don't already employ this word liberally to describe either yourself or others, you're about to start.
Well, better late than never. Today's Daily Quota is perfect for the occasion, and for our Sardonic Saturday - It's an article from The Week about the origins of the word curmudgeon.
What I love about this article is that it's littered with fantastic synonyms that can be used in every day conversation to describe people of ill-repute - scoundrel, malcontent, ninny, fool...the list goes on!
One a very important side note, is it me or is Oscar the Grouch based almost entirely on Diogenes?
They're both curmudgeons, they both live in a cylindrical contraption, they both exists for the sole discomfort of others, and they are both somehow loved and even respected by those around them.
READ IT HERE
As fate would have it, I had only discovered of National Curmudgeon Day a week after it had happened. Curse the Gods, I would have made an event out of it!
If you don't already employ this word liberally to describe either yourself or others, you're about to start.
cur·mudg·eon
/kərˈməjən/
Noun
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Synonyms
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Well, better late than never. Today's Daily Quota is perfect for the occasion, and for our Sardonic Saturday - It's an article from The Week about the origins of the word curmudgeon.
What I love about this article is that it's littered with fantastic synonyms that can be used in every day conversation to describe people of ill-repute - scoundrel, malcontent, ninny, fool...the list goes on!
One a very important side note, is it me or is Oscar the Grouch based almost entirely on Diogenes?
They're both curmudgeons, they both live in a cylindrical contraption, they both exists for the sole discomfort of others, and they are both somehow loved and even respected by those around them.
READ IT HERE
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