Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Your Dictionary and Red Twizzlers

We already know or most of us know the Dictionary is your Friend and thanks again, Septimus, after all these years for that mantra.

Note:  Septimus often hung about at Pete's News Shop and he frequently said pontifical things of that nature.  He was an exceptionally strange bird ... but interesting and I remember him.  Yes, the Dictionary is even now my Friend.

Perhaps it's not clear how the Dictionary relates to Red Twizzlers and you may not even know a Twizzler at all.


Red Twizzlers are one of Hershey's greatest products since there's not one shred of nutrition of any kind in them.  As far as anyone knows, they're made out of cow hooves, dyed to color, and flavored for taste but no-one asks too many questions.

Stop crying, kid.  If we liked you then we would give you chocolate.


If it happened that Septimus the Pontificator shared a Red Twizzler with you, as was his wont sometimes to do, this act of generosity would be enveloped in a moment of circumbendibus.

There is some evidence Sir Walter Scott coined the word 'circumbendibus' while on a bender at the Clock and Fish Bait Pub in Gloucestershire and it's defined to mean a roundabout tale but it seems he is the only one who ever used it.

Except for Septimus.  Would you like a Twizzler?


Note:  if you dismiss this as meaningless tomfoolery, which it is, you may miss the point circumbendibus really is the Word of the Day and hopefully that gets a full score for all the way around the world.

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