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Rhymes with “penis”

Today is Enas Yorl‘s birthday. After being rude to Pupster for his birthday yesterday, I couldn’t let the occasion pass without mortally insulting Enas in some way.

Every time I see “Enas” I think “rhymes with ‘penis'” — I don’t know if it does, I just think that. I looked it up once. Enas Yorl is a character in the Thieves’ World Series, which is a fantasy anthology written by multiple authors. I missed it somehow. It must’ve happened during my Illiterate Phase.

So it is pretty remarkable that all but one link on the first page of Google hits for “Enas Yorl” — including the top one — are for the blogger, not the book. More popular than the original!

Happy birthday! God, I feel like Miss Nancy on Romper Room.

Comments


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: April 17, 2007, 1:13 pm

OooooOOooo! My very own weasel post! Thank you sir!
Yes, I read the name the same way. Someone once referred to me as Penis Yowl. I picked the name for my online persona years ago because it was fairly obscure and referred to a powerful, but extremely reclusive wizard. And cursed. I’m neither powerful, nor a wizard but I am relatively reclusive. Oh, and cursed.

Ha! I watched Romper Room. Did you spy me through your magical looking glass thingy?


Comment from blanco lagomorph
Time: April 17, 2007, 1:22 pm

Happy B-day Enas Y!

I always thought your name was an anagram that I couldn’t figure out.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 17, 2007, 1:49 pm

I’m surprised Romper Room was still around, given that you’re ten years younger and it seems more like a ’60s thing than a ’70s thing. Romper Room was regional, so everybody had a different Miss Soandso. Ours was Miss Nancy. I have a perfectly ordinary and rather common first name, and Miss Nancy NEVER saw me in the magic mirror. It might possibly have freaked me out if she had, but still…

I’m pretty sure I cottoned onto the fact that the magic mirror was, in fact, a paddle with a hole in it that she was just staring through.

Romper Stomper Bomper Boo…


Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: April 17, 2007, 2:19 pm

Happy Birthday, Enas Yorl! Yes, its from Thieves World, back in the first few books before they went really… uh, wierd.
Enas Yorl was cursed so that he regularly shifted shape and could never be the same shape twice. Immensely powerful, very cursed.


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: April 17, 2007, 2:27 pm

Thank you itishwhay abbitray!

Yah, she never saw me either – which was annoying because she was looking right at me. That’s ok though – Captain Kangaroo came on some time after RR and he was always way better.


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: April 17, 2007, 2:34 pm

Whups! You posted before I did CT – Thank you sir! Yah, the stories went in odd directions and got confusing for a while. I pushed on and read them all though. Even the novels outside the main story thread.


Comment from mesablue
Time: April 17, 2007, 4:12 pm

Happy B-Day Enas!

Weasel, I nominated you for best blog design at http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/nominate

If you win, I want half.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 17, 2007, 4:28 pm

Whoa! Thankyouverymuch! I’ve never been nominated in one of those things.

So now I start arm-twisting and blegging it and creating a bunch of sockpuppet accounts to vote for myself and stuff? I’m not sure I have the energy. But it would be neat to pick up a few more readers.

I’m starting to consider making my tagline “the best blog nobody reads”


Comment from mesablue
Time: April 17, 2007, 4:33 pm

Here it be: http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/7141

You can also vote for me for most obnoxious blogger: http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/7138


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 17, 2007, 4:41 pm

Ah. I was gonna ask if you wanted to be reciprocally nominated for anything.

Anyone else? I read all you guys. Happy to nominate anyone for anything they consider thematically appropriate. I didn’t see a This Dude I Like To Read Every Morning category, though.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 17, 2007, 4:44 pm

That second link won you a trip to my Spam corral, by the way.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 17, 2007, 4:46 pm

Hahaha…you also put yourself down for Best Political Blog and Worst Blog of All Time. That’s covering your bases!

I’m going to have to cruise that last category; nothing I like better than reading a really bad blog.


Comment from Pupster
Time: April 17, 2007, 6:13 pm

“…nothing I like better than reading a really bad blog.”

Hey, me too!

*pregnant pause*

Wait. That came out wrong.


Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: April 17, 2007, 8:13 pm

I’m starting to consider making my tagline “the best blog nobody reads”

I certainly read it and I’m a nobody!


Comment from SteamBoat McGoo
Time: April 17, 2007, 8:47 pm

Hey! I suddenly realized I’m about the only person that reads and posts here that doesn’t blog. I’m blogless! And a nobody, too.

So I’m the only one not doin’ the ol’ “you scratch mine, I’ll scratch yours” thing – which seems slightly unseemly, seemingly.

I need to go ponder the significance of this new development.


Comment from Mrs. Peel
Time: April 17, 2007, 9:04 pm

I do love your site, Weasel…I just realized I’ve never commented here and I’ve been reading for weeks.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 18, 2007, 8:26 am

McGoo, you should have a blog. Then we’d have a place to go to make fun of you.

Shucks, Mrs P. I wasn’t fishing. Though yours is one I keep meaning to put on my roll (as one of our local sewing circle, don’tcha know). I can’t access my control panel from work (something about it our filter doesn’t like) so I’m forever forgetting to update my blogroll.


Comment from SteamBoat McGoo
Time: April 18, 2007, 10:30 am

I’ve thought about blogging, but fear I would lose interest or get scribblers’ cramp – or worse, get pee’d off. I’m convinced that if you sum up the total number of people in the world, and then subtract the number of utter rectums, the number is significantly negative. It is not a zero-sum game.
How this can be, I do not know.

Mrs. P — I love the word “squee”. Does that mean “squealing in delight, nearly to the point of loss of bladder control”? Outstanding word. Been there. Done that.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 18, 2007, 10:40 am

Oh, sorry. That’s me. I somehow ended up with a bunch of extra rectums. If you can think of a use for them, they’re yours.


Comment from Pupster
Time: April 18, 2007, 1:30 pm

Rectum? Damn near Killed ’em.


Comment from SteamBoat McGoo
Time: April 18, 2007, 3:06 pm

No thanks….got one! (One of my favorite responses, btw).

Pup – it took me way longer than it should have to get that. Duh.

I do wish all the bloggers that post here luck on the nominations, though.


Comment from Mrs. Peel
Time: April 18, 2007, 3:19 pm

McGoo, yeah, I think that’s about what “squee” means. It’s a word from fandom.

Is there a category for “Most Irregularly Updated Blog with a Focus on Random Nerdy Shit”? ‘Cause I would so win that.

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