Congeniality

 Yes, well posting to my blog is very busy, Thursday 09 December 2021. Time is fast and furious and fernickety or is that persnickety...

At the end of the day...

Life is Tough, but we are tougher!

derrick    noun | DAIR-ik

What It Means

A derrick is a tall framework over an oil well that supports equipment used in drilling.

Well, we have now mislaid a pair of very important reading spectacles.
Damnit, just when our vision was clearing.
Well, we just need to seek and we will find!

hoity-toity    adjective | hoy-tee-TOY-tee

What It Means

Hoity-toity means "pretentious, fancy, or pompous."   // The guidance counselor emphasized that students do not need to go to a hoity-toity college to achieve success.

Unguinous

 She was sitting in the tent, languidly waiting for the women to come and prepare her for the wedding ceremony. Anointed from head to toe with an unguinous, aromatic oil, her pomaded hair suffused with a sharp scent, she sat vacantly on a pile of sacks, her embroidered gown and jewelry in a corner, chafing her oiled arms as if to dry them.

 

Well, well, I never...

Anti-Macassar

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Hello, all you fine people.

Here is today's word, as in The Word of the Day:

anti-macassar (n.)

also antimacassar, 1848, from anti- + macassar oil, supposedly imported from the district of Macassar on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, which was commercially advertised from 1809 as a men's hair tonic "infallible in promoting an abundant growth and in maintaining the early hue and lustre of the HAIR to the extent of human life" [1830]. The cloth was laid to protect chair and sofa fabric from men leaning their oily heads back against it.

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Macassar oil

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A young man in Herne Bay, Kent, England, around 1903 to 1914, showing hair groomed with Macassar oil

Macassar oil is a compounded oil used primarily by Western European men throughout the 1800s and early 1900s as a hair conditioner to groom and style the hair.^[1]

It was popularised by Alexander Rowland (1747–1823), a celebrated London barber. It was then not uncommon for barbers to make their own hair preparations, and around 1783 Rowland began offering Rowland's Macassar Oil. Within two decades it had become hugely popular, and was aggressively advertised with extravagant claims of its effectiveness, becoming one of the first nationally advertised products.^{[citation needed]}

The words Macassar Oil were registered as a trademark by A. Rowland & Sons in 1888. Rowland's son (also named Alexander) later stated that a relative living in the island of Celebes in the Dutch East Indies had helped in procurement of the basic ingredient.^{[citation needed]}

Macassar oil is often made with vegetable oils, such as coconut, palm or Kusum oil,^[2] combined with fragrant oils such as ylang-ylang.^[3]

Macassar oil was so named because it was reputed to have been manufactured from ingredients purchased in the port of Makassar in the Dutch East Indies.^[4] The poet Byron facetiously called it "thine incomparable oil, Macassar" in the first canto of Don Juan,^[5] and Lewis Carroll also mentions "Rowland's Macassar Oil" in the poem "Haddocks' Eyes" from Through the Looking-Glass.^[6]

Illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from around 1814 making fun of the false claim in some advertisements that Macassar oil would stimulate hair growth on balding men

Due to the tendency for the oil to transfer from the user's hair to the back of his chair, the antimacassar was developed. This is a small cloth (crocheted, embroidered or mass-produced), placed over the back of a chair to protect the upholstery.^[7]

oxymoron

Definition of oxymoron

: a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness)broadly : something (such as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements

Friday, 25.06.21

Is there any meaning to this?

I sleep, I wake, I am lost in my thoughts of trying to quantify my wakefulness...

03:14 to wake, to dream, to be, to do, ubi dubi dubey do

O.L.E.D. - the way to go

 Good Golly Gosh, this is all so strange and peculiar.
We are trying to update my blog, however, with all that is going on...

Words for the day. OLED

Organic Light-Emitting Diode

The acronym 'OLED' stands for Organic Light-Emitting Diode - a technology that uses LEDs in which the light is produced by organic molecules. These organic LEDs are used to create what are considered to be the world's best display panels.

Maybe bigger is better???

The Life & Times of...

 How is the matter of fact to you did you wash your hands?

 

Wise words! To dream is but to be!

 

Life is a moment in time.

 I am abstemious in my...January

...from 19

A bit of a dreary post, so damn late and so much happening tomorrow

 One man went to war...

Trevor Hughes

out of practise - but I had to get a memorial out - will fire off some better ones later

My fave comment of his "as if it was put in by an Indian" - describing a rather messy junction box in a high tech factory.

The best thing to come out of Greece for sure.

The Greeks, and I thought it was all the Romans.

Chappies

Chapman's Peak, built for the view! Heyo, 'get off my lawn'.

Panchos

The place to enjoy a great beer!

Banana Jam Cafe

This is where it is at!

What a place to be.

Banana Jam Cafe.

Caribbean Culture.

Monday, 08.03.21

Heyo, Megan & Harry, get real. Lost their 'freedom', trying to be normal.

Is Megan coloured and who cares. 

What is the protocol?

Cape To Cairo

My brother is awesome , even  as we speak he is preparing our breakfast, scrambled eggs and bacon. Yummy!