>Thank you for making my evening, Andrew! I read your post and started
>laughing hysterically. My wife asked me what was so funny, so I read your
>post aloud. She started laughing hysterically. Then the dog started
>barking. It took us several minutes to recover.
>
>Please remain in touch with your inner curmudgeon--it's very entertaining.
>
>Just one question... what is a "gormless oik?" Please send us the
>definition. Heck, please send pictures, too (photographed with a Zuiko, of
>course)!
>
>--Peter Klein
>Seattle, WA
>
I cannot think of a reasonable translation - I think it's an English term
for a brainless geek, but with unpleasant overtones. Think of a dull soccer
hooligan. Gormless? A tendency to stare about with the mouth open.
(As a member of the Society for the Restoration of Lost Positives, I really
must explore the meaning of 'gorm').
As to peaceful spots, I've just been seranaded by a couple of deranged,
raucous cockatoos looking through the window and threatening to damage the
house unless I feed them. That's the trouble with living around intelligent
birds with attitude. Bloody wildlife holds you to ransom.
Ah Scott, Mike - to have raccoon, skunk AND squirrel problems - sounds
great. Didn't know that raccoons ate apples - our possums certainly do and
can chew a six inch diameter hole clean through the side of your house to
get what they want. They also go to dancing classes as sprogs (sorry, kids)
to learn how to make as much noise as possible as they run across the tin
roof - playing chasey in the mating season.
My inner curmudgeon is fine. My outer curmudgeon is the miserable old sod
next door who makes me look like ray of sunshine on his good days. Eighty
good solid years of festering spite and only just been disagnosed to be
mildly psychotic. His specialist topics are tradesmen, the medical
'so-called' profession and the Japanese (he fought in New Guinea).
Now I WILL attempt photos of gormless oiks - the idea of photographing
tourists appeals to me enormously. My Zuiko 28/2 should be just right to
get the entire sullen, sweaty brood in shot. A curious revenge indeed,
treating wild animals as sensible and the roiling edge of humanity as
animals. I may even come up with a suitable model release - something along
the lines of "If you want to make a nuisance of yourself looking like that,
I reserve the right to photograph you for the amusement of others. Don't
bother to sue - no court could possibly take YOU seriously."
My regards to your dog, Peter. S/he is obviously more intelligent than most
of the perambulent plonkers around here.
AndrewF
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