Mister Flopsy, TriColour Dutch: a rabbit dead as a doornail
Gentlemen we can rebuild him
We have the technology
We have the capability to make the world's first bionic rabbit
Mister Flopsy will be that rabbit
Better than he was before
Better, Smarter, Fluffier

[Stevie] If you can't verb taxidermy, you can't have taxidermiing as a gerund. That alone should be reason enough.

(SM) Good thinking. You can't verb anything because verb is not a verb except when it is. I have now fulfilmentized my role as a member of the grammar and style police (fel aelod yr heddlu gramadeg ac arddull in Welsh BTW FWIW).

I'm half-Welsh, but I'm struggling with how to pronounce Btwfwiw.

(CdM) Try half of it then. The bigger half.

Since nouns are too often verbed, can we balance the trend by nominalizing verbs (other than the speaking entirely in gerunds)?

What's the verb form of 'nutrition'? Nutritioned? Nutritised?

nutrit, nutritted, nutriting

It's not a popular word. In use, it sounds a bit too much like something else.

(SM, pen) Nutrify. Sgoddaby.

Nourish, surely.

The adjectival -ish suffix means like, or somewhat, so 'nourish' clearly means something that's a bit noury.

(SM) I have a cousin-in-law who I wouldn't be so ungallant as to describe her as a large dog but she is nevertheless Danish.

Does that imply "dish" means "like the letter D" then?

Yes, and the same for 'fish' and 'wish' too. One of the great benefits of having a highly consistent language like English is that these rules are 100% reliable.

Ah, but you speak of Engl, not the debased English!

Oh yeah. That is a good point.

So, if some town planner decides to make a location vaguely resemble a Birmingham suburb, would that be astonishing?

Why should I watch The Villa? They never cum to see me when I was bad.

'Astonishing' was actually a deliberate policy of post-war governments, and formed part of the overall strategy known as 'maudling'. The Thatcher government, of course, declared that 'astonishing' was old hat and Britain was now in the 'Steven age'. Thus the Villa knell was sounded.

[Super] And all this time I thought 'Stevenage' was named thus becuase it was on the River Steve.

Stevenage sounds like a statutory payment. "Stevenage Shall Be Levied At Three Shillings And Fourpence In The Pound."

[Stevenage] Surely named after the patron saint of alternating birthdays?

I have two people claiming that I've posted things on Facebook that I've not posted at all. One guy claims that I keep posting about him. The only post I have is a prayer asking for prayers for somebody with his first name. The other guy claims that I have a post revealing the last name of somebody. I have a total of ZERO Facebook posts with that last name. Things have been weird for years, but they started getting much weirder lately. I have a TikTok musician who thinks I'm stalking him over me just trying to help him by doing a simple Google search of his name because he said he wanted to create a boundary between his real name and social media, so I was trying to help him and when I let him know how easily his name could be found and that he could be found on social media, he freaked out and said he he told me that he wasn't comfortable with how deeply I searched him when he said he wasn't comfortable with that (which he never said). It's so very confusing for me.

(KS) Stick to the Morniverse. We're a bit mad but we're not weird.

I had a beer delivery today. Came in three boxes. I've already got dozens of boxes. Fortunately, boxes make good cat fortresses. And these days I've got enough boxes for the most epic cat fortress ever. In fact, as I joked to the delivery driver, I could do the whole Maginot Line.

Although I suppose strictly speaking it would be a Moginot Line.

[KagomeShuko] There are people/bots who replicate your fb account (photo, bio etc.) then "friend" all you know claiming your original account was hacked, then spam/phish them.

[Simons Mith] Watch out for German Shepherds sneaking round the side.

Standing in Cologne railway station lookat a train with "National Express" on the side, and wondering if I have travelled in time as well as space.

(Bis) Was it a steam train?

[Rosie] Nope, just an emu. Though there was a preserved steam train in Hanover.

Emus can't even fly, let alone pull trains.

When I was in middle school, I had a student teacher who had gone to Australia. She said that emus weren't smart at all and would run straight into fences, not even TRYING to miss them.