Title : "The term 'blivet' for the impossible fork was popularized by Worm Runner's Digest magazine."
link : "The term 'blivet' for the impossible fork was popularized by Worm Runner's Digest magazine."
"The term 'blivet' for the impossible fork was popularized by Worm Runner's Digest magazine."
"In 1967 Harold Baldwin published there an article, 'Building better blivets,' in which he described the rules for the construction of drawings based on the impossible fork. In December 1968 American optical designer and artist Roger Hayward wrote a humorous submission 'Blivets: Research and Development' for The Worm Runner's Digest in which he presented various drawings based on the blivet. He 'explained' the term as follows: 'The blivet was first discovered in 1892 in Pfulingen, Germany, by a cross-eyed dwarf named Erasmus Wolfgang Blivet.'..."From the Wikipedia article "Impossible trident," which I'm reading this morning because Bad Lieutenant — commenting in the post about Kim Kardashian's "body shapers" — said "Sausage casings come to mind. I was thinking more along the lines of 'blivet.'"
I was trying to remember how I'd heard that word defined, and I don't think it's what Bad L was thinking of (which comes up in the Urban Dictionary definition: "Ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag").
And I'm sure it wasn't The Impossible Trident, which is this familiar thing that exists only in drawings:
So what was my old, forgotten understanding of "blivet"? Hey! It's in the Oxford English Dictionary:
U.S. slang. (chiefly joc.).The oldest publish use is in a slang dictionary in 1967, looking back to WWII:
A pseudo-term for something useless, unnecessary, annoying, etc.; hence, = thingamajig n.
1967 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang Suppl. 673/2 Blivit, n., anything unnecessary, confused, or annoying. Lit. defined as ‘10 pounds of shit in a 5-pound bag’. Orig. W.W. II Army use. The word is seldom heard except when the speaker uses it in order to define it; hence the word is actually a joke.So Urban Dictionary is more right than Wikipedia, but Wikipedia seems to know it's getting it wrong, since it also has an article for "Worm Runner's Digest," which identifies it as (partly) satire:
The W.R.D. published both satirical articles, such as "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown", and scientific papers, the most famous of which, "Memory transfer through cannibalism in planaria", was a result of McConnell's RNA memory transfer experiments with planarian worms and was later published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry.It's pure poetry that Kim Kardashian's body shapers led us to "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown":
Consider now an elemental strip of cloth isolated as a free body in the area of plane B of figure 1. The two tangible forces F1 and F2 are equal and opposite as before, but the force W(weight of dress) is not balanced by an upward force V because there is no cloth above plane B to supply this force. Thus, the algebraic summation of horizontal forces is zero, but the sum of the vertical forces is not zero. Therefore, this elemental strip is not in equilibrium; but it is imperative, for social reason, that this elemental strip be in equilibrium.....
Thus articles "The term 'blivet' for the impossible fork was popularized by Worm Runner's Digest magazine."
that is all articles "The term 'blivet' for the impossible fork was popularized by Worm Runner's Digest magazine." This time, hopefully can provide benefits to all of you. Okay, see you in another article posting.
You now read the article "The term 'blivet' for the impossible fork was popularized by Worm Runner's Digest magazine." with the link address https://usainnew.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-term-blivet-for-impossible-fork-was.html
0 Response to ""The term 'blivet' for the impossible fork was popularized by Worm Runner's Digest magazine.""
Post a Comment