The God of Onions

Aha.  My neme­sis.  I have returned.  The God of Onions is laid bare in all his phal­lac­ies.  Or some­thing.  My wife has just returned from a night out to accuse me of being drunk in charge of a word proces­sor.  As if!  As if the word proces­sor does not have a mind, and even a vocab­u­lary of its own.

Speak­ing of which.  I’m fairly sure Harper Collins don’t pub­lish nov­els with the word ‘fuck­beans’ in them, so I may need to con­sult my the­saurus.  Or Roger Mel­lie.  One of the two.

it’s a hard knock life.  Ok.  It isn’t at all.  It’s a life made sweeter by allud­ing to it hav­ing some­thing to do with onions.  Which as my near­est and dear­est will tes­tify, I detest.  Unless cut into small enough pieces.  And therein lies a les­son for all of us.

A bien­tot.  1,100 words tonight.  I blame the Pros­ecco for every­thing.  Except the onions.  The cheese was prob­a­bly respon­si­ble for that.

3 Comments on “The God of Onions”

  1. that, more than any­thing you’ve ever writ­ten that I’ve ever seen, con­jures a very strong and some­what pecu­liar image.

    is there a vot­ing page on the OED web­site where we can sub­mit neol­o­gisms? i’d vote for fuckbeans.

  2. per­haps, even, we can rail­road the word into gen­eral usage by scrawl­ing it across every blank space on the intar­webs in the same way that James Daly did in 1791. Except that was Dublin and Quiz, not Intar­webs and Fuckbeans.

    What does it mean, actually?

  3. Ivan says:

    Sadly, in the harsh proof­read­ing light of day. Or in this case, tucked up in bed, forc­ing Fliss to read some­thing before we can both fall asleep, it tran­spires that ‘fuck­beans’ is self-indulgent tosh.

    Espe­cially as the sen­tence orig­i­nally ran — “Fuck­beans. A shit­load of fuck­beans. A thou­sand splend­ing fuckbeans.”

    Which is prob­a­bly N too many fuck­beans, where N is any num­ber greater than zero.

    Rest easy OED.

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