{"id":553,"date":"2006-02-03T07:52:44","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T15:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/03\/turning-a-phrase\/"},"modified":"2006-02-13T11:45:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T19:45:34","slug":"turning-a-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/03\/turning-a-phrase","title":{"rendered":"Turning A Phrase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/emilymr\/431994221\/item.html\">Our neigh\u00adbor<\/a> is apply\u00ading for a job as a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor and part of her job inter\u00adview will involve lec\u00adtur\u00ading to a class, so last night a bunch of us got togeth\u00ader and lis\u00adtened to her prac\u00adtice her Salem Witch Hunt lec\u00adture (her exper\u00adtise is in colo\u00adnial his\u00adto\u00adry). It was quite good. She\u2019s got a lot of knowl\u00adedge and presents it well.<\/p>\n<p>At one point she men\u00adtioned how the con\u00adfess\u00ading witch\u00ades described in lurid detail their covenant with the Dev\u00adil which, along with sev\u00ader\u00adal oth\u00ader intrigu\u00ading details, involved kiss\u00ading his butt. Lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly. To make a deal with the Evil One they believed you had to apply your lips to his pos\u00adte\u00adri\u00ador.<\/p>\n<p>And they described this in lurid detail. Lurid.<\/p>\n<p>Being a lover of words, I imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly began to think of ways to allude to the act of kiss\u00ading demon tush that would fall short of lurid but would nonethe\u00adless be evoca\u00adtive. I came up with three:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>giv\u00ading the Ene\u00admy of All Flesh a hiney hick\u00adey<\/li>\n<li>kiss\u00ading the heinous anus<\/li>\n<li>smooching the sul\u00adfurous sphinc\u00adter (alter\u00adnate end\u00ading: Satan\u00adic sphinc\u00adter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Com\u00ading soon to a ser\u00admon near you\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>update: my neigh\u00adbor has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/emilymr\/437401261\/item.html\">blogged about the evening<\/a> as well. With a pho\u00adto. And yes, I am the one who remains name\u00adless. Also, I edit\u00aded one of my word\u00adplays because I felt a verb that I had cho\u00adsen for vari\u00adety was stronger than I had intend\u00aded to be. There\u2019s a dis\u00adtinc\u00adtion between humor and vul\u00adgar\u00adi\u00adty, and I think my orig\u00adi\u00adnal verb was too crass.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our neigh\u00adbor is apply\u00ading for a job as a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor and part of her job inter\u00adview will involve lec\u00adtur\u00ading to a class, so last night a bunch of us got togeth\u00ader and lis\u00adtened to her prac\u00adtice her Salem Witch Hunt lec\u00adture (her exper\u00adtise is in colo\u00adnial his\u00adto\u00adry). It was quite good. She\u2019s got a lot \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/03\/turning-a-phrase\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cTurn\u00ading A Phrase\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-8V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}