Double take

[hawkwing_lb]

I had to share this, because I wonder if anyone else will have the same mental picture I had.



Word of the Day from http://www.askoxford.com


batwoman
• noun (pl. batwomen) a female attendant or cleaner serving an officer in the British services.
— origin Second World War: from bat (see batman) + woman.

Source: Oxford Dictionary of English
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-861057-2



I knew about batmen, of course, but this?

My mental response was to wonder...



... What kind of an army would it be if the bat-men and -women had black wings and twitchy ears? If they were literally, physically, bat men and women? What kind of society would that be?



I really need to finish a novel one of these days so that I can write another one. :-)

Comments

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Because you are an evil person, I rather suspect that's rude. :-) What does it mean?

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

::sniffle:: You don't trust me! Oh, I'm so proud of you!

It means, literally, "Don't make waves". The story that usually goes along with it refers to being nose-deep in cow poop...i.e., in a situation where if you make waves, you will be inundated with manure.

Then again, maybe they haven't heard the same Polish stories I have, so it wouldn't be funny. ;-) I just wondered.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think you have strange ideas of 'funny'.

:-)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

It was hilarious when I was a kid! Well, perhaps you had to be there. My grandfather had lots of funny stories.