Ghyll:Splak - Revision history

Jcowan: One last one

2005-06-15T02:59:48Z

One last one

Morbus Iff: Editing the copy, editing the copy.

2005-02-28T15:46:36Z

Editing the copy, editing the copy.

Jcowan: clarified prose

2005-02-23T22:19:53Z

clarified prose

Jcowan: First draft

2005-02-23T21:39:11Z

First draft

Jcowan: Dib with the usual quotations

2005-02-20T18:28:36Z

Dib with the usual quotations

New page

Dibbed. --[[User:Jcowan|Jcowan]] 13:28, 20 Feb 2005 (EST)

The usual dubious quotations:

<p>Appearing Alongside Professor [[Ignatius Maximillian Albertus Crank]] will be...</p>
<div style="font-variant:small-caps;">Jigglier than a [[Fijjit Mejora|Pink Pachyderm]]; </div>
<div style="font-variant:small-caps;">Cuddlier than an Alluring Avian!</div>
<p>Well [[Splak|splak]] me folks, it's the one and only amazing Miss. Hairy Mandibles (MDip, BNCS, COBB, FLap).</p>

But well, [[King Harandraff the Great]] lived around -400 [[EC]], so obviously we don't know [[Splak|splak]] about the dude, and all of this is probably just hearsay.

Other reprehensible [[Pyxie]] habits include: [[Splak|splakking]] in public, undoing [[Equestrian Beetle]] [[toilet training]], and random, destructive raking.

Several times the larger mercantile houses tried to bring in [[Splak|splakers]] and break the Union, but [[Johnny Lightning]] and Jimmy knew how to play that particular form of [[Bindlet Ball]]. The street fights were bloody, but the military-grade [[EctoMechanauts]] FUC had "invested" in paid off. The Union held together.

While I admit that Tim works at that fine establishment, he is a fine, upstanding lad. Not at all like that pile of [[splak]] father of his, [[Bysted Timperton]]. I should know, I play cards with the old dog every Tuesday and he cheats.

(However, some scholars, present author included, have put forth the notion that all this secrecy is just a way of covering for the fact that the [[Aminfarances Institute of Science and Technomancy]] is just making [[splak]] up as they go along.)

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 Splak piles are commonly to be found near the edge of hamlets and villages, where the inhabitants regularly go to deposit them; they are eventually scattered by the wind and the rain.  In towns and cities, splakworkers are employed to take the piles of splak by [[trundle cart]] from behind each household to the surrounding countryside.  No agricultural or industrial uses have as yet been discovered for splak, nor is it medicinal -- quite the contrary.
-Almost all the creatures of the Composite order produce splak, though the nature of the ''k***'' is quite species-specific: in [[burnflies]], for example, it varies from sky-blue to deep purple, and [[pyxie]] ''k***'' is vermilion in shade -- one of the few constant factors about those confusing creatures.
+Almost all the creatures of the Composite [[Kmuppens' Taxonomy|order]] produce splak, though the nature of the ''k***'' is quite species-specific: in [[burnflies]], for example, it varies from sky-blue to deep purple, and [[pyxie]] ''k***'' is vermilion in shade -- one of the few constant factors about those confusing creatures.
 The word is used in a variety of senses, and in fact can be any of the four parts of speech, namely noun, verb, adjective, or objurgation.  ''To splak'', for example, means to produce a pile of splak.  As a metaphor, ''splak'' always connotes worthlessness and/or undesirability.  In particular, the phrase ''Splak me!'' is an exclamation meaning roughly "How surprisingly unfortunate!" and not, of course, a demand to be splakked by the listener.

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 Almost all the creatures of the Composite order produce splak, though the nature of the ''k***'' is quite species-specific: in [[burnflies]], for example, it varies from sky-blue to deep purple, and [[pyxie]] ''k***'' is vermilion in shade -- one of the few constant factors about those confusing creatures.
-The word is used in a variety of metaphorical senses, and in fact can be any of the four parts of speech, namely noun, verb, adjective, or objurgation.  It always connotes worthlessness and/or undesirability.  ''To splak'', for example, means to produce a pile of splak.  In particular, the phrase ''Splak me!'' is an exclamation meaning roughly "How surprisingly unfortunate!" and not, of course, a demand to be splakked by the listener.
+The word is used in a variety of senses, and in fact can be any of the four parts of speech, namely noun, verb, adjective, or objurgation.  ''To splak'', for example, means to produce a pile of splak.  As a metaphor, ''splak'' always connotes worthlessness and/or undesirability.  In particular, the phrase ''Splak me!'' is an exclamation meaning roughly "How surprisingly unfortunate!" and not, of course, a demand to be splakked by the listener.
 Finally, ''splakker'' is a term used chiefly by working Ghyllians and their sympathizers to mean a person employed temporarily during a strike.  The negative connotation ensures that those who hire splakkers do not call them that.

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-Dibbed.  --[[User:Jcowan|Jcowan]] 13:28, 20 Feb 2005 (EST)
+'''Splak''' is the name given to a combination of ''spla'' and ''k***'' (the latter word cannot yet be printed in full, even in scholarly works, due to the great offense it gives to many), the output of the [[Ghyllian excretion]] system.  The ''spla'' is the larger white part, which is nitrogenous waste and insoluble in water; the small black dot in the center of a pile of splak is the ''k***'', which is the final product of digestion and contains a complex mixture of mostly water-soluble chemicals.  Ghyllians deposit piles of splak about every other day on average, though there is wide normal and pathological variation.
-The usual dubious quotations:
+Splak piles are commonly to be found near the edge of hamlets and villages, where the inhabitants regularly go to deposit them; they are eventually scattered by the wind and the rain.  In towns and cities, splakworkers are employed to take the piles of splak by [[trundle cart]] from behind each household to the surrounding countryside.  No agricultural or industrial uses have as yet been discovered for splak, nor is it medicinal -- quite the contrary.
-<p>Appearing Alongside Professor [[Ignatius Maximillian Albertus Crank]] will be...</p>
+Almost all the creatures of the Composite order produce splak, though the nature of the ''k***'' is quite species-specific: in [[burnflies]], for example, it varies from sky-blue to deep purple, and [[pyxie]] ''k***'' is vermilion in shade -- one of the few constant factors about those confusing creatures.
-But well, [[King Harandraff the Great]] lived around -400 [[EC]], so obviously we don't know [[Splak|splak]] about the dude, and all of this is probably just hearsay.
+The word is used in a variety of metaphorical senses, and in fact can be any of the four parts of speech, namely noun, verb, adjective, or objurgation.  It always connotes worthlessness and/or undesirability.  ''To splak'', for example, means to produce a pile of splak.  In particular, the phrase ''Splak me!'' is an exclamation meaning roughly "How surprisingly unfortunate!" and not, of course, a demand to be splakked by the listener.
-Other reprehensible [[Pyxie]] habits include: [[Splak|splakking]] in public, undoing [[Equestrian Beetle]] [[toilet training]], and random, destructive raking.
+Finally, ''splakker'' is a term used chiefly by working Ghyllians and their sympathizers to mean a person employed temporarily during a strike.  The negative connotation ensures that those who hire splakkers do not call them that.
-Several times the larger mercantile houses tried to bring in [[Splak|splakers]] and break the Union, but [[Johnny Lightning]] and Jimmy knew how to play that particular form of [[Bindlet Ball]].  The street fights were bloody, but the military-grade [[EctoMechanauts]] FUC had "invested" in paid off.  The Union held together.
+'''Citations''':  [[Johnny Lightning]], [[Ghyllian excretion]], [[trundle cart]].
-While I admit that Tim works at that fine establishment, he is a fine, upstanding lad.  Not at all like that pile of [[splak]] father of his, [[Bysted Timperton]].  I should know, I play cards with the old dog every Tuesday and he cheats.
+--[[User:Jcowan|Jcowan]] 16:39, 23 Feb 2005 (EST)