Friday, January 05, 2007

Inter Egg Dumb

I'm not sure how or why, but two people on the other side of the room got into a lengthy and retarded discussion about the word "interregnum" and how to spell it. For those unfamiliar with the term, it refers, generally, to a period during which a throne is vacant between rulers, such as kings, or even popes.
So, for example, the period between the death of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI was an interregnum.
One famous interregnum in England from 1649 to 1660 saw the formation of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell after the regicide of Charles I. In many ways his event substantially led to the formation of the United States of America as the Puritans who had been running the show soon found themselves going from persecutor to persecuted, a role reversal they didn't much care for.
In any case, to move away from your vocabulary and history lessons for the day and back to my random complaining about the inanity of the level of discourse here at work, Jackass A thought that, when Jackass B brought it up, the word had something to do with eggs and ended with "dom," so when Jackass B challenged him to spell it, he came up with "intereggdom."
Even once he came to understand that it didn't end in "dom," he clung to the notion that it involved eggs, and all successive attempts at spelling the word revolved around that misapprehension.
Eventually Jackass A remembered that we work for a company that's part of that whole "Internet thing" and decided to look it up, which, of course, led to another lenghy discussion about how sorely mistaken he had been.
This is what my days are like.

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