Pockets of Stardust

ragbag:

frolesworth, uk

my main man, douglas adams is celebrated primarily for his hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy series, but he also did other stuff as well: he wrote dr. who episodes, he was a bit player on monty python’s flying circus, and he hitchhiked himself to the summit of kilimanjaro (wearing a rhino suit). another thing that he did was write a dictionary.

his meaning of liff lexicon was the result of a game that he and his collaborator played which paired definitions that don’t appear in the dictionary but should* with place names. here are a few that begin with f. i think that you will find them extraordinarily useful.

• Falster · A longwinded, dishonest and completely incredible excuse used when the truth would have been completely acceptable.
• Farnham · The feeling that you get at about four o‘clock in the afternoon when you haven’t got enough done.
• Farrancassidy · A long and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to undo someone’s bra.
• Ferfer · One who is very excited that they’ve had a better idea than the one you’ve just suggested.
• Fiunary · The safe place you put something and forget where it was.
• Foffarty · Unable to find the right moment to leave.
• Fraddam · The small awkward-shaped piece of cheese which remains after grating a large regular-shaped piece of cheese, and which enables you to grate your fingers.
• Frating Green · The shade of green which is supposed to make you feel comfortable in hospitals, industrious in schools and uneasy in police stations.
• Fritham · A paragraph that you get stuck on in a book. The more you read it, the less it means to you.
• Frolesworth · The minimum time it is necessary to spend frowning in deep concentration at each picture in an art gallery in order that everyone else doesn’t think you’re a complete moron.
• Fulking · Pretending not to be in when the carol-singers come round.

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*these are known as sniglets, which is also the name of a type of giant fleece smock worn by lazy people.