"Good morning class, I'm Professor Ignatius Umbratius and I'll be teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts this semester. Now, we could slog our way through this pabulum," says Professor Umbratius, chucking "Eight Habits of Highly Non-confrontational, Life-loving, Exceedingly Unfamous Wizards" over his shoulder, "or... we could have some fun!"
Amidst wild cheering he heaves aloft a struggling tome the size of a small pony: "Behold! I bring you Grimsby's Gritty Grimoire of the Grim, Gross, Gruesome, Grisly, Guileful, Groaning and Grotesquely Grinning!"
02 December 2010
pabulum
PAB-yu-lum
noun
Writing, entertainment etc that is bland, insipid, banal.
LaRianna bit off a piece of nail from her index finger and admired the result. "Arrgghh! This tedium! This pabulum! The rot that they teach us! Who cares how to calculate gravity? What I really need to know is how Justin Bieber gets his hair to do that, and who Katie Price will marry next. That is what they are supposed to be teaching us."
noun
Writing, entertainment etc that is bland, insipid, banal.
LaRianna bit off a piece of nail from her index finger and admired the result. "Arrgghh! This tedium! This pabulum! The rot that they teach us! Who cares how to calculate gravity? What I really need to know is how Justin Bieber gets his hair to do that, and who Katie Price will marry next. That is what they are supposed to be teaching us."
01 December 2010
offing
(noun) (1) the near or foreseeable future; (2) the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area
Apart from the tired old tanker brooding in the offing, the sea is as clear and still as the sky.
Apart from the tired old tanker brooding in the offing, the sea is as clear and still as the sky.
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