So, here is the gist of it. (What the H is gist? Where the H did that word come from1?)
I got an email I guess trying to see if I was the right Jennifer Ruggles. It went from there:
Hi Jennifer, Can you see mount
rainier from
your home? Did you grow up in Tacoma? Troy
Um, no. Do I know
you?
Hi Jenniferruggles (ladyfun001) Tacoma. How are you?
Troy
I believe you have the wrong Jenniferruggles. I am not
ladyfunn001. I am nowhere near ladyfun. If I had a user name, it would be
crazyladywithagun001. Other than that, I'm fine. Good luck with your hunt in
Tacoma.
Hopefully the crazy+gun secured the end of that exchange.
That is the third Jennifer Ruggles I have come across. The first is my cousin, natch. The second was a gal in Provo who bounced a bunch of checks at various grocery stores. I thought I was going to starve. So, amongst the three of us, poor Cousin Jen's name is besmirched.
1Of COURSE I had to look it up:
1711, "the real point" (of a law case, etc.), from Anglo-Fr. legalese phrases, especially cest action gist "this action lies," meaning "this case is sustainable by law," from O.Fr. gist en "it consists in, it lies in" (third pers. sing. pres. indicative of gésir "to lie"), from L. jacet "it lies." Extended sense of "essence" first recorded 1823.
6 comments:
If I were a good poet, I would now write to you a poem about how much I absolutely love and adore you and wish we were neighbors. It would be a sonnet. There would be lots of words in it which you would have to look up. Because I'd use the thesaurus of obscurity. And it would be because you scare stalkers away by telling them you're packing heat. And because you're a shameless besmircher of names. And because . . . . You're the best!
-Jess
Um. And because you posted the definition. Love that. Love you. Love it all.
-Jessagain
(who inadvertently also made this same comment on the LAST post. lame.)
Jess - right back at you. I don't remember the format for sonnets, though, and I have never been able to write a haiku. But I rock the limerick.
Jennifer,
You are officially the funniest and most clever person I know. Love you.
Jen, you are pure comedy. I'm no expert on sonnets or limericks, but I CAN rock a haiku like no one's beeswax.
A Haiku for You:
Jen is so much fun
Crazy lady with a gun
Troy, you better run
Dude! You should TOTALLY make crazyladywithagun001 your user name!! Think of the respect!!
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