Friday, January 16, 2009
Word of the weekend: "Snarge"
Granted, it sounds like some sort of ancient Scottish dish, but "snarge" is actually just airborne roadkill:
Carla Dove and her team at the feather-identification lab at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, study snarge — that's the bird goo that is wiped off an aircraft after it hits a bird.
And, yes, Carla Dove works in the "feather identification lab" at the Smithsonian. If that does not persuade you that we live in a fundamentally poetic world, I do not know what would.
3 Comments:
By 
Unknown, at
Fri Jan 16, 10:45:00 PM:
Onomatopoeia . . . and thanks for the link to the haircut. Haven't seen traffic like that in ages. My son is flattered.
By SR, at
Sat Jan 17, 03:44:00 AM:
Maybe this is something the Federal Government doesn't need a full time employee for.
By 
, at
Sat Jan 17, 10:42:00 AM:
I can't WAIT for my next game of Scrabble... dave.s.
