Verbal Rorschach Test
Cryptic note discovered today, in my handwriting on a Post-It, while I was going through piles and piles of old papers:
"The arthritic rat bakes cheesecake in a fedora."
Substantial reward offered to anyone who can help me understand what the hell I meant by that.
The only other clue is that under that sentence, it says, "Wednesday: Call Mita."
"The arthritic rat bakes cheesecake in a fedora."
Substantial reward offered to anyone who can help me understand what the hell I meant by that.
The only other clue is that under that sentence, it says, "Wednesday: Call Mita."
posted by Sarah Goss at 4:27 PM
12 Comments:
Dude, you are SO high...
I was wondering why my fedora was all burned. Tell that rat to take some Nuprin and get me a new one.
So far no one is even in the RUNNING for the substantial prize. Sheesh.
Hrm. While I think that the Wednesday is probably referring to the Wednesday our birthday was on, I think that maybe if you called me tomorrow, I might give you some kind of cryptic clue to help solve the mystery. Something like, "The cat flies at 3 o'clock" or "Spiderlady takes the bait while the rain falls on the big oak."
Are you sure you didn't actually just mean to write, "that arithmetic lacks basic sense, unf, Nora"? Geez! I TOLD you to stop hanging out with Nora. She SUCKS at math.
You know, Mita, I probably WAS trying to do something like that. Sometimes when I have to remember a long list of things, I create a nonsense sentence that starts with the letter of the thing I have to remember... like, the arthritic rat thing could have been me trying to remember to buy tacos, apples, and, uh, raisins. Or something like that.
So, when you say the prize is "substantial,"...
I'm sure I'm utterly missing the point by taking your request for interpretation seriously, but is it possible that this is one of your mnemonic quasi-acronyms? You'd written a while back that you come up with surreal strings of words--the first letter of which represents some other word that you actually need to remember--but that these always backfire because you still forget wh at you were supposed to recall...
SHIT Michael, I HATE you. You beat me by TWELVE FREAKING MINUTES. That was MY suggestion! You take it back!
TARBCF:
tomatoes
apples
Renuzit
bread
carrots
food
I had a little trouble with a few of the letters...
Although if it were groceries you'd probably have written a grocery list. I think this mnemonic device is something naughty about someone and you didn't want to leave an overt paper trail.
Wow, I am so impressed that you remembered that about me, Deb and Michael! That is my theory--that it's a mnemonic (sp??) and I was trying to remember some items that started with those letters. How sad that the shell of the memory is left but the substance shall never be recovered....
PS
Deb, I love the last item in your interpretation of the mnemonic: "food." Must remember: buy FOOD! :-)
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