sweasel.com

Continuing on from the previous post,

That’s “Upas” with only one “s”, right?

Still, that’s fascinating stuff, and the kind of thing for which I find “ChattyGTP” very ever so much more useful than a mere search engine.

Yes. What do you think this is, an ass porn site?

Oh, wait…

YYMV but Grok is chatty without being a whiny female dog about it.

Dear Madam Weasel,

Based on the number of canals one can view on the surface of Mars, and the obvious level of their civilization that can be attributed thereto, I think it is safe to say, and without fear of contradiction by those of the less well educated classes, if not those who were saddled with inferior higher education credentials, that Martian attackers could theoretically introduce carnivorous or otherwise deadly plant species during a pre-invasion of the earth that would exactly match the behaviors described and attributed to the deadly Upass plant you have so blandly mocked.

It is to be understood that creatures far and wide abound upon the surface of the earth, many as yet undiscovered, who have a particularly savage and threatening taste for British flesh and it should not be ignored that not all of these creatures are animals, but rather could be vegetative in nature and would, rather than placidly sitting and waiting for the unwitting traveler to stumble upon them, learn to seek their own living as it were, and expand what would become their hunting grounds beyond the normal limit one would expect they could reach from a fixed position.
It is entirely possible these plants could be intentionally dangerous and the idea should not be disregarded that these plants could have intentions at all, especially after having been tended, raised and tuned by Martian horticulturalist to act as invaders, as it were, using mechanisms of area denial to man, in particular British explorers and thereby the British empire.

We have no proof that the Upass plant is not one such botanical devil, launched here to begin infiltrating the earth’s surface, establishing a foot hold for the Martian invaders free of enemies and their probable resistance to Martian hostile aggressions!

Achtung! Grammar NAZI here…

“Incorretoid” seems to be misspelled and/or misused.. Incorrectoid might be a suitable replacement but no wordsmith source I could find supports even that mild correction.

“Factoid,” however, does provide a useful and appropriate definition of the intended state of error applied to Upas latex.

factoid /făk′toid/
noun

A piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part of a publicity effort, and that is then accepted as true because of frequent repetition.

A brief, somewhat interesting fact.

An inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

Achtung! Grammar NAZI here…

“Incorretoid” seems to be misspelled and/or misused.. Incorrectoid might be a suitable replacement but no wordsmith source I could find supports even that mild correction.

“Factoid,” however, does provide a useful and appropriate definition of the intended state of error applied to Upas latex.

factoid /făk′toid/
noun

A piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part of a publicity effort, and that is then accepted as true because of frequent repetition. A brief, somewhat interesting fact. An inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

Achtung! Grammar NAZI here…

“Incorretoid” seems to be misspelled and/or misused.. Incorrectoid might be a suitable replacement but no wordsmith source I could find supports even that mild correction.

“Factoid,” however, does provide a useful and appropriate definition of the intended state of error applied to Upas latex.

factoid /făk′toid/
noun

A piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part of a publicity effort, and that is then accepted as true because of frequent repetition. A brief, somewhat interesting fact. An inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

Well, Weasel, Akismet apparently thinks it is a d is pissed off about it.

just sayin!

Oh Yankee! Be still my heart! I am such a sucker for that kind of prose grandly and boldly seasoned with Holmesian logic!

How long you been reading my blog not to know I make words up, ExpressoBold?

My whole family does it. We have an entire vocabulary of shit we made up.

OUCH!!!

It’s interesting how a myth about the Upas tree stuck around so long that it became more of a metaphor than a fact.