Entering the U.S Navy, SPCA Golf, word engineering
By Chuck Wiser, I write the words to share what my eyes see and my heart feels
Ironically, August 13th today is 63 years removed from my 1963 enlistment in the US Navy. I boarded a bus in Hornell, NY with the Naval Recruiting station as our destination, and from where I would catch a train ride to the US Naval Base in Great Lakes, Illinois at the ripe “old” age of 17. Thereupon, I technically commenced my adult life. Unbeknownst to me at the time I was already slated for my discharge date to precede my 21st birthday.
Seeing how beneficial and rewarding a career enlistment was for our youngest son Shawn Wiser, I sometimes wish I had re-enlisted instead of departing with just 3-1/2 years of service. Then again, I am thankful that I didn’t as it is doubtful that circumstances of the meeting of my wife would have happened the way it did. Shawn met and married his wife having met her in the service and it turned out well for him.
Last week I mentioned my meeting and dining with Charles van Heck. Charles is a “blog-ist” writing in his Woodhull Journal. I have now been invited to be a contributing writer for his journal. I am looking forward to an extended audience of readers so I can more effectively “Share what my eyes see and my heart feels.” Woodhull to me is more noteworthy as a cheese purchase destination as their cheese curd is at least “on par” with tat which I can purchase at the Cuba Cheese Store. I’m bound, but fortunately not “bound” by the characteristics of some cheese products. I used to pass through Woodhull on my return trips from any southern journey that put me on the cut-over road from the north bound Rte. 15. I will start contributing as soon as I can compile an autobiographical “resume.” Charles would especially want, as he likes, my grammar and/or word usage discussions. My writings are “comparative” regarding Grammar. Charles wants me to write about 600 to 800 words. To tell you the truth I have never counted the number of words in any of my Wramblings. The very first short paragraph that starts this writing has 70 words in it. I wasn’t sure how to count the numbers in, so my number is an approximation.
There I go again, creating a new word. Autobiographicable, fooled auto-defect once again.
County Rte. 31 updates. The intersection of Rte. 31 and county Rte. 9 on the west side of Scio, NY is a highway work zone as the county continues its sluice/culvert installation and repair work. Detours abound.
This past weekend The SPCA Serving Allegany County hosted its annual Scramble 4 Animals Golf Tournament in Memory of Robert Hutter. The event took place to benefit the shelter’s animals. I had hoped to announce the winners in today’s Wrambling, but I have not yet received the requested information. I was also going to share a team picture of our team, but I was asked not to by one of the players. I respect that and so will refrain from sharing that. My next golf outing will be at the Friends of Allegany Arc Foundation annual summer Scramble tournament at 1:30 PM Friday, August 21st at the Wellsville Country Club.
Continuing with golf reports, sadly, or at least disappointingly, the 20th Annual Mickey Donahue Irish Scramble has been pushed out into October (the 3rd) and the site also has been changed as it will now be held once again in Bath, NY.
I am told that extenuating events and circumstances recently instigated the changes. Much of the disappointment is due to the delay, and the scheduled trip distance changes substantially. That particular tournament is special to me as our team including Gary and Chase Robbins, is always in the hunt with a highly placed finish every year that we’ve entered. We have a good history with this tourney and are very well known by the Donahues.
This is by far the best golf tournament that you can join given the amenities, the organizing people and the excellent post tourney meal of “Prime Rib.” Did I mention open bar?
Next Wrambling jump is to that of discussing eating habits. I won’t compare them with any others, but the phrase “savor the flavor” comes to mind describing my eating methodology. I take small bites and chew whatever I am eating to “squeeze” the flavor onto my palate where I can pause for a bit before swallowing the bite. This gives the tongue, where a majority of taste buds reside, an opportunity to share the enjoyment. I wonder why some people “wolf their meal down.” I’m not sure how they actually taste things. Taking some medicines are the absolute opposite however, as you, or at least I, want to get them down into the stomach without offending those “testy taste buds.” I literally have a daily and nightly handful (6-8 pills) and I wash them down with V8 juice. The heavier liquid juice characteristic carries them to and down the throat. I hate it when something like aspirin gets stuck on the back of the tongue and starts to melt.
Grammar Groan of the week is the word and words “careless” and “care less.” By definition “careless means acting or speaking without enough attention, thought or concern.” Care less” is a phrase that often evokes debate as to just what it means. According to AI; “I could care less” is meant to mean that you do not care at all about something. A common variation means that your level of concern is already at zero. But it has the duality of that meaning when you substitute the word “couldn’t as in: “I couldn’t care less.”
My newly created grammar word of the week is “sensified.” (or sensifized) That makes a past tense verb of anything relating to the word sense. If that makes sense, then I say it is sensified.
Speaking of “senses,” My odor sensing ability or smell sense is very sensitive. Perhaps that is because of the “generously sized” nose. From a side view my nose sticks out further than I can stick my tongue out. There’s that “further” vs “farther” word choice. Did I get it right?
Anyway, that was a segway to my sharing of some favorite smells or odors. They include “grass clippings; tractor exhaust (after startup in the garage); Skunk odor after it has been around for a while; and very cold frosty air; It also includes Boiled Dinner (with cabbage and ham); Cookies baking (or anything baked like Pumkin Pie).
Charles van Heck likes my word list of various alternate meanings so I will share that herein. Following is a re-write of a quiz that I gave my students on my last day of teaching prior to my retirement from Alfred State College. The students would all groan in unison whenever I would use one of those or other made-up words in my lectures. I used to enjoy looking or glancing at the class as I stood a little sideways at the black/white board writing something and substituting my own made-up word. I would write a word like catalyst on the board and then ask the class what that word meant. After hearing their response, I would offer my definition as an alternate.
Wiser’s Engineering Words to the Wise, Now Wrevised and Wrewritten
Catalyst List of cattle such as Guernsey, Jersey, Angus etc.
Stabilizer Person who puts the horses back in the stable
Ratchet Mess made by large vermin
Carbide How you acquired your car
Quartz Next larger size after pints
Turret What happens when you catch your sleeve on something
Taper How you fix a tear
Datum What you do when you go out with someone
Planer Opposite of Fancy-er
Nitrates Costs of things after dark
Vanadium Enclosed parking lot for vans
Billet How you send out cost charges to someone
Sawing Past tense of seeing
Stockholder Guy that keeps the catalyst
Venereal Antenna on a van
Peer Self explanatory
Feedback What you get when you take grain to the grist mill
Divider Math person that uses a “Goesinta” (2 goes inta 4=2)
Sequence Shiny clothing decorations
Therblig Dolly Parton’s reaction to looking in a mirror
Gilbreth Person that eats a lot of fish
Detail Last part of a jumping deer that goes over a fence
Decrease Pants leg look after ironing
Degrees Oily material to fry things in
Deliver What you eat with de onions
Deflection What you see in de mirror
Rubber What you do when you hurt something
Deformation Line up for the next football play
Recycled Ride bike back where you started
Dinnerware What you wear to dinner
Polysulphone Plastic material invented for use on cell phones
Silicones Ice cream that makes you giggle
Colorants The red ones that bite
Extensibility Stretchable ability
Plasticizer Person that makes plastic.
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