October 3, 2007

Verbs

Friends,

As I'm sure you creative types know, it's always fun to take a noun and make it into a verb. For example, cunt. It's a fun word to imagine as a verb, isn't it? "I cunted for an hour." "I will be cunting tomorrow." "He cunts the fork." Wonderful, no? I suppose it depends on what your verbal of cunt it. To me, it means "to grasp firmly," but I suppose cunt is open for definition.

But I was thinking about verbs the other day because of that Junot Diaz line about being Bartleby`d by his girlfriend. It got me thinking about what I would want my name to mean as a verb. Like, if I were to Bryan, or to have Bryaned, or will be Bryaning. I'd like to think it'd be something pleasant, like to have witty banter. But I got a feeling, that others might disagree that Bryaning is a pleasant thing.

What do you think? If your name would be a verb, what would you prefer it to be...and what do you think others would really believe it to be?

VIVA EL VERBS

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would like to think "to Emily" is to organize in alphabetical order one's possessions. For example: I Emilyed all the books in our collection. Are you going to Emily the CDs?

Big Perm said...

I think I'd have to go with something more simple like "Dani" or "Danied" or "was Danying."

I think "to Dani" means to "wiggle", as in "Today I went running and my ass was totally Danying the whole way."

I think "to Bryan" is to banter...but "to Bwyan" is to limerick dirtily.

So, when I call you Mr. Bwyan and I say "hello", I think I mean, "Hi, Mr. Dirty Limerick."

Big Perm said...

I forgot to answer the second part of the question for myself.

I'll try to answer it for Emily.

To Emily: To smile with dimples.

As in: That little girl was so cute when she Emilied.

Sethy Go Bragh! said...

We've discussed this, but to Seth would probably be to prematurely ejactulate. This could mean both 1. to either shoot a jet of semen before you intended or 2. speak suddenly before you were prepared. To Seth is quite versatile, and quite common I've been reassured.