New baby projectTuesday 20 March 2007 15:19
Just past the eight-week mark and Jeż has doubled his weight. Magda reports via SMS that he now tips the scales at just over 6 kilograms. In contrast, his brother still doesn’t weigh that much. The day of reckoning approaches.
Magda also notes that in this particular outfit he looks like Al Swearengen, which is a fairly chilling thing to say about a two-month-old baby. Yet it is true.
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March 20th, 2007 at 19.04 CET+2.00
Is his life as rough and tumble as Swearengen’s?
March 20th, 2007 at 19.21 CET+2.00
Al Swearengen?!!??
Yes, perhaps due to the comparable sartorial splendour Jeż shares in this picture (only) with the cutting-edge-of-pigsty-fashion that the flamboyant Mr. Swearengen flounces around in. But I’m sure the greyish sleepwear sported in this pic is the least colorful of your son’s vestments. Whereas Mr. Swerengen wears the alpha-to-omega grey pallet of ilk-wear.
So, I’d say that perhaps this one moment has a resemblance, but there I would stop.
March 20th, 2007 at 19.26 CET+2.00
..hhmmm. On second thought, are you perhaps referring to the sounds that Jeż and Mr. Swearengen both make that creates the similarity between the two of them?
That is, Mr. Swearengen sounds like he’s got a binky in his mouth when he’s laying verbal waste to those before him.
March 21st, 2007 at 01.54 CET+2.00
Nothing would make me happier than for his first word to be “cocksucker”.
March 21st, 2007 at 02.23 CET+2.00
Is it my imagination or is the hedgehog nearly as wide as he is tall?
Hey, look, it’s Darko! How is JeÃ?¼ pronounced? Does the 1/4 represent the “little” one’s share of square footage in the Isoglossia home, or something else?
March 21st, 2007 at 02.26 CET+2.00
Je�?�¼? I meant Je�¼. It looks like my Isoglossia experience has been impaired somewhat since the upgrade.
March 21st, 2007 at 04.17 CET+2.00
I have to second Sarcastro’s sentiment and add that this particular outfit also makes Sonic look as if he has no legs.
March 21st, 2007 at 12.44 CET+2.00
And I have to follow up on jdog’s comment and point out that if that were my kid and an outfit made him look like he didn’t have any legs, I’d be constantly saying “Lieutenant Dan! You ain’t got no legs!” to said kid.
This is but one of many reasons why I am not a parent.
March 21st, 2007 at 14.48 CET+2.00
Sarcastro is likely to get his wish if Adam doesn’t quit with the mid-nap poking. And Gwynne, it’s not your imagination at all: Sonic is on track to have the proportions of a rhinoceros, legs or no legs.
Re: DarkoV’s unorthodox Z’s: since installing the Comment Preview Interlude page I have stopped editing comments for typos, but this does seem a little over the top and those special characters can do some flakey stuff — DarkoV entered the code correctly, but sometimes the characters are rendered incorrectly. Now that Gwynne has teased him about it, though, my hands are tied and the scrambled characters must remain. I’m looking into a better previewing system.
Just in case anyone is seriously baffled, the ‘ż’ and ‘ž’ are both pronounced roughly like the ‘z’ in ‘azure’. ‘Sonic’ rhymes with ‘chronic’.
March 22nd, 2007 at 20.37 CET+2.00
I like that expression unorthodox Z. Sounds almost as good as Tenacious D. From now on, regardless of the lack of chortles that will not be emanating from Gwynne’s part of the world due to this proposal, I will be sounding the horns for an unorthodox Z whenever I use one of the quaint and odd letters in the Slovenian alphabet.
Greetings to the Je (unorthodox Z here)ek !!!
March 23rd, 2007 at 04.03 CET+2.00
…”the lack of chortles that will not be emanating”
To chortle, or not, that is the question.