04 April 2006

Throwing the Baby out with the Bath Water


In honor of defenestration being the Dictionary.com Word of the Day this past Sunday, let us pause to reflect on the great defenestrations of times long past.

de·fen·es·tra·tion (d-fn-strshn) n.
An act of throwing someone or something out of a window.

Things to Defenestrate Before the Close of yet Another Year:

1. A 1980's style printer
2. A clunky, 45 lb, supposedly portable laptop
3. A peck of hens (how many hens are in a peck?)
4. An albatross, uncaged
5. A donut-ham-hamburger (that would be a hamburger inside of a ham sandwich, using donuts as buns; courtesy of Jim Gaffigan)
6. One electron
7. A collection of Peter Frampton vinyl LP's
8. A bestiary of solved Electromagnetic Theory exam example problems
9. A One-Hundred Tonne Load Anvil
10. Twenty bowling balls (simultaneously or otherwise)

Things to NOT Defenestrate:

My keys.

3 comments:

Sarah @ All The Book Blog Names Are Taken said...

Have your keys recently been thrown out the window and you are nowe asking that it not happen again, or were you slightly intoxicated and this is a reminder to yourself to not throw your keys out the window? Either way, it just makes good sense.

physics & co. said...

yah...when i was living at purdue during the summer after my sophomore year, i got mad and threw my keys out the window/through the window. the carabiner that was on my keychain struck the glass in such a way that the break in the window was nearly completely circular. the keys then proceeded to fall down 7 or 8 stories.

and that's how i threw my keys out the window.

the end.

Sarah @ All The Book Blog Names Are Taken said...

You should have taken a picture of the glass, I bet it looked neat-o. Though I am sure it sucked that you had to retrieve your keys.