Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
Patrick: My Germanness shines through — I love heavy, eggy, cheesy, potatoy foods.
Ariel: potatoy: methinks you should trademark that.
Ariel: Mr. Potatohead’s erotic fiction nom de pleum.
Patrick: Cheap Potatohead knockoff
Ariel: Sorry, honey. we couldn’t afford the plastic potato. Here’s a potato with some pipe cleaners. We call it “potatoy.”
Patrick: The real potatoy: a glass of water. Get it? Potable + toy = potatoy? Sigh. I’m such a nerd.
Ariel: Wow. You totally won the semantic smack down on that one.
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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May 2nd, 2005 at 9:17 pm
Actually, I was thinking more of a “here-for-the-long-haul” bathroom toy. Y’know…why read Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader when you can have Pot-a-Toy. Prolly a puzzle kinda thing…perhaps even a whole series. I’m thinking too much…