{"id":1183,"date":"2003-05-12T17:47:42","date_gmt":"2003-05-13T07:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/12\/todays-vocabulary\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T08:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:22:54","slug":"todays-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/12\/todays-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#039;s vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14690,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0380813815\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260313015301\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0380813815\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0380813815\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 14:15:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 21:41:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 21:41:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  If I do manage to escape the angel, I&#8217;m not going to be able to make my living as a professional mourner, not if you people don&#8217;t have the courtesy to die. Just as well, I suppose, I&#8217;d have to learn all new dirges. I&#8217;ve tried to get the angel to watch MTV so I can learn the vocabulary of your music, but even with the gift of tongues, I&#8217;m having trouble learning to speak hip-hop. Why is it that one can busta rhyme or busta move anywhere but you must bust a cap in someone&#8217;s ass? Is &#8220;ho&#8221; always feminine, and &#8220;muthafucka&#8221; always masculine, while &#8220;bitch&#8221; can be either? How many peeps in a posse, how much booty before baby got back, do you have to be all that to be all up in that, and do I need to be dope and phat to be da bomb or can I just be &#8220;stupid&#8221;? I&#8217;ll not be singing over any dead mothers until I understand.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Levi, who is called Biff, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0380813815\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Christopher Moore's 'Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal\">Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ&#8217;s Childhood Pal<\/a>, by Christopher Moore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that one can busta rhyme or busta move anywhere but you must bust a cap in someone&#8217;s ass? Is &#8216;ho&#8217; always feminine, and &#8216;muthafucka&#8217; always masculine, while &#8216;bitch&#8217; can be either? How many peeps in a posse, how much booty before baby got back, do you have to be all that to be all up in that, and do I need to be dope and phat to be da bomb or can I just be &#8216;stupid&#8217;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[2303,16],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-christopher-moore","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}