badger epitome of incomprehensibility "Happy new year, Badger!" went the email title. My thought: "Who are you and why are you calling me a badger?" It was Brock University. All of their sports teams are the Brock Badgers, but I'd forgotten they call their students/alumni that too. Appropriately, "badger" means to bother. Putting aside the badgering, I bookmarked the alumni benefits page. My train discount with them stopped working long ago, but maybe there are other goodies. Maybe I can mentor young badgers, teach them how to dig for truffles. Wrong animal. But, you know, school spirit. I'm trying! 230105 ... raze if i were ever in a position where it fell to me to conduct a job interview and i read "badger mentor" on someone's resume, i think i'd have to hire them on the spot. that's just too good. 230106 ... epitome of incomprehensibility An odd, undomesticated pet_peeve: Brock University calls me a "badger" in their emails. I'm fine with their sports teams being badgers, but do random alumni have to be badgers too? "Badgers, share some words of encouragement with our students." No! Don't badger me. Granted, Concordia University has called me a bunch of times asking for money, but at least they don't call me a different animal than I am. What would that be like, I wonder...? "Dear Adélie penguin, please spare some cash for your edgier alma mater. Wouldn't you be sad if your fellow Adélie penguins didn't get a chance to grab a free pack of radish seeds from the Frigo Vert (thank you for the radish seeds, by the way, even if they're not krill) and then linger at the newsstand reading The Link or The Concordian, papers they'll never look at when they actually take a copy with them? Don't you think Adélie penguins should have a chance to vote for student councilors on a whim five minutes before the poll closes? If Concordia shuts down, where would a potential Adélie penguin turn? McGill? Please. UdM? Nous parlons français, but not THAT well. Carleton?? Ugh, don't make me spit out the fish I've just caught. Yes, I'm an Adélie penguin too. This is why I'm asking you for money. The Adélie penguin administration gets the student penguins to make cold calls, yeah. They don't want to get their flippers dirty. Hey, but if you donate, some of that money may filter down to us, and if it doesn't, we'll picket. We're good at that. We're also cute. Just imagine a bunch of Adélie penguins holding protest signs. What? *How* do we hold them? Look, I'm not divulging that information until you give me $50. What do Adélie penguins want with money, you ask? Well, what do YOU want with money? Exactly." 251111 ... e_o_i Huh, so I wrote about this before. I've also stopped making sense. So I should either write nonsense or sleep. Or maybe sleep nonsense. 251111 what's it to you? who go blather from