The Occasional Joke


Nurse: Patient's name?

Centurion: Marcus Licinius Crassus

Nurse: And his date of birth?

Centurion: 115 BC.

Nurse: All right. And what is he here for?

Centurion: Cataphract surgery.


Thursday, October 30, 2008

Disappointing

I was doing my usual thing on airplanes, sitting quietly with my eyes closed, wishing the flight crew would shut up about tampering with the smoke detectors, when a neologism came to me: we have architects (people who design buildings) and starkitects ("...architects whose celebrity and critical acclaim have transformed them into idols of the architecture world and may even have given them some degree of fame amongst the general public." says Wikipedia). How about architects who deliberately design inconvenient or ugly buildings because they're pissed off about something: snarkitects.

Unfortunately, you google it and you get 173 hits already. Missed the boat again. But I'm going to put it on Urban Dictionary, anyway.

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