the english language is limiting sometimes.

parge came up with the idea that english needs a word that encompasses "when" and "where" simultaneously.

therefore - mark this on a piece of stationery, write it into your dictionary, tattoo it on your arm...

"whern". = where/when?

mark o'leary helped with this. we decided on "wharn" but we decided that an r-controlled vowel would be problematic for challenged, developing, or just plain stupid speakers of the language - of which there are many. "worn" and "warn" sound to close to what people may have pronounced "wharn" so we had to alter it a bit. mark provided a practical alternate selection.

WHERN?

oh shit, forget "discovery" and "innovation". someone beat us to it.

from "tongs language dictionary"
http://www.tongs.org.uk/wiki.pl?TongsLanguageDictionary

Wow?
'Why?' and 'How?', all wrapped up in a single handy word.

Whern?
Inspired by 'Wow', Rico toiled for months in his laboratory to produce the word 'Whern' - a simple means of avoiding the labour and stress inherent in asking both When and Where one should meet up.


i mean, we're still geniuses... just not the timely sort.

a visit to basone guitars in gastown (chris basaraba, proprietor) doesn't get much saner than this:

i'm in vancouver. mainly i've been getting high on fresh, floral air. it's a real boost to be around air that smells like flowers rather than sewers.

not that i have anything against sewers. see, when a sewer is only 2 feet below the surface of the street, it's more honest. it reminds us that "yes, we shit. then the shit goes somewhere."

i think BC has too much victorian baggage. "excrement is yucky, out of sight, out of mind."

of course we don't just toss it in the nearest river and hope for the best...

the most annoying thing is being able to understand what everyone is saying, for the most part. when you can overhear someone say "i'm just going to spit in his face when i see him next." and shit like that it's a little disconcerting.