December 6, 2004
I Was Misled
I believe I touched on this once, but it could have been in the defunct Blogspot days, and my current archives are good for naught but collecting comment spam. At some point there will be nothing for it but to play Texas Hold 'Em buck naked with a circulatory system full of Cialas while Barely Legal Teens force Cheap Tabs down my throat while Refinancing the Velocihovel at Exxxtremely Low Rates. Think Doc Holliday in Tombstone.
In the meantime, a story. My mother once confessed to me that she had always thought the word misled, the past tense of mislead, was instead the past tense of the verb misle. As in to cheat someone. Think of it: it has miserliness, lying, misleading. It is the perfect word to describe any number of screwheads I encounter daily.
She needn't have worried. My brother and I had thought the same thing. Must be a genome
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thing. Yes, that bastard misled me, then I stuck him with the fillet knife.
This really should be a word. I hereby proclaim it. And, so, in Velocitongue, it shall remain forever more.
WHA HUH?
So on a slightly more coherent topic (to me anyhow)...did you see that I stuck a LLama head on the VelociBod?
Posted by: Sadie at December 6, 2004 7:54 PMWhy VelociGent, you're not wearin' your bustle! How lewd.
Posted by: Liz at December 6, 2004 8:47 PMI already told you I wasn't doin' the math.
I'm you're Huckleberry.
Tombstone does kick ass though.
But then, well, I devoted an afternoon to provin' that fact. I'm guessin' it took you 'bout took seconds.
'Least that what Velocimamma says.(Duckin' and runnin' for cover).
Posted by: RedNeck at December 6, 2004 11:15 PMTwo seconds, not took, but they're really about the same thing.
Hilarious...up until now I was the only one in the world who ever thought that. When I was a kid, whenever I read the word "misled" I always pronounced it to myself as "misseled" as in the past tense of the word "misle" (pronounced, of course, "missel"). The hell of it is that whenever I read the word now I still pronounce it to myself that way.
I agree, it should be a "real" word. I suspect "misle" is in far more common (albeit silent) linguistic usage than anyone will ever admit. I applaud your etymologic initiative.
Posted by: Amy at December 7, 2004 1:49 AM