High Definitions

"Pulchritude" - what does it mean?  A question that popped into my rubbish-tip mind earlier today.  Apparently it means "having great beauty and attraction" which is an oxymoron, because it sounds like a stew made from fish guts, to poison wasps with, and delivered from a septic sock.

"Oxymoron"'s another woeful definition.  It ought to be an ultra-insult, in the sense of "You're not just a moron, you're an oxymoron!"  and yet what does it mean?  A contradiction in terms.

"Procrastination is the thief of time" - yes, well so is Empire film magazine, thank you very much.  I sat down for a quick flick through it and an hour had unaccountably vanished.

And where does "Procrastination" come from?  I know there was Procrustes, an innkeeper from Greek antiquity, who would not have got any stars at all from Egon Ronay, and more probably a visit from the ancient Greek equivalent of the Murder Squad.

Well, got to go after my sub-GCSE English ramblings, that zombie novel won't write itself.