<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460951" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Have a Good Gruntle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You're the most ept, ert, choate and dolent person I know -<br>how do you manage it? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Excuse me...? ? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Words are fun. <br>If your child's school report<br>declared him or her<br>'inept, inert, inchoate, and indolent'<br>you'd have a fairly clear picture<br>of how things are; <br>the negatives survive, <br>as more useful<br>(ah, sad reflection...) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then there are the words<br>that have reversed their meanings<br>by some really interesting<br>but alas never yet charted<br>human failing: <br>'nice' once meant stupid and ignorant; <br>'silly' once meant blissful...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But today I'm savouring 'disgruntled': </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that is, dissatisfied, and angry with it; <br>a state not unknown<br>to a consumer society; <br>so are you gruntled today -<br>satisfied and happy? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but it's not quite as easy as that: <br>if you're gruntled, then officially you're<br>'uttering little grunts'...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">would that be while DIYing<br>somewhere back of the sink, <br>or pigging out so fast you can hardly<br>make time to breathe, <br>or perhaps being, uh, <br>sexually favoured? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Words are fun<br>especially for poets -<br>Shakespeare made up more than anyone<br>just like that<br>without some egghead like Bacon (aha!) or Jonson<br>looking over his shoulder and saying<br>you can't say that<br>they won't know what you mean<br>in the low-price seats...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Words are fun; <br>give them a good shake of the kaleidoscope<br>and they just might play nose-to-tail<br>and make a poem</div><div style="margin:10px 0">though not today it seems</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460951" data-title="Have a Good Gruntle de Michael Shepherd" data-description="'You're the most ept, ert, choate and dolent person I know - how do you manage it? ' 'Excuse me...? ? ' Words are fun. If your child's school report declared him or her 'inept, inert, inchoate, and indolent' you'd have a fairly clear picture of..."></div> </div> </div>

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