Sunday, June 13, 2021

Verb Abuse

I regularly play an online dice game called Farkle. You roll six dice and score points according to what combination of numbers you roll. I won't bore you with details. I will instead bore you with my own sophomoric take on the matter.

If you do not get a roll which produces a score you are said to have farkled. And that simply sounds childishly funny to me. Think of it this way: he farkled. Doesn't that sound completely and utterly wrong? It's almost as though you might draw any number of obscure or vulgar meanings from it.

And here I am insinuating that into your mind just minutes before I prepare to go to Sunday Mass. Do I have to go to confession now?

Or do you?


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