American Heritage says it can be either, tommy. Columbia University disagrees.
Want a laugh? Look at the automatically generated ads on the answers.com page for eunuch.
Jayne: Anybody remember her comin' at me with a butcher's knife? Wash: Wacky fun.
'Objects In Space'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
§ ita § - Dec 08, 2005 8:15:53 am PST #6906 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat - Dec 08, 2005 8:17:18 am PST #6907 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
NOT clicking ita's link. Resist!
§ ita § - Dec 08, 2005 8:18:32 am PST #6908 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's an answers.com page and freaking sponsored ads, for crying out loud. Don't be a wuss.
Kat - Dec 08, 2005 8:19:02 am PST #6909 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
so you say!
§ ita § - Dec 08, 2005 8:21:57 am PST #6910 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
so you say!
So does the URL, coincidentally enough.
Weird, that.
tommyrot - Dec 08, 2005 8:22:07 am PST #6911 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
American Heritage says it can be either, tommy. Columbia University disagrees.
Dammit! How am I supposed to sleep now, with this confusion?
§ ita § - Dec 08, 2005 8:23:04 am PST #6912 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How am I supposed to sleep now
I think your bosses might be okay with your being unable to sleep at this moment. Hey! Maybe I can use this confusion to keep me awake tonight and tomorrow morning.
Jessica - Dec 08, 2005 8:30:39 am PST #6913 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I see ads for In-Demand Degrees, prostate meds, and diet pills.
Only the prostate meds strike me as overly ironic, except I'm pretty sure eunuchs still have prostates.
Jesse - Dec 08, 2005 8:31:35 am PST #6914 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Castratos are snipped before puberty -- I think eunuch covers guys who lose the goods at any point.
So castrati could be a subset of eunuchs, then? I'm fine with that.
§ ita § - Dec 08, 2005 8:32:51 am PST #6915 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Heh. I guess they're not consistently generated.
I get ads for Cuisinart products and shaving supplies.
Now I want to load the pages a number of times...ha! This time I get ads for Christian singles.
That's what happens when you trigger ad selection by text and not context.
eta:
So castrati could be a subset of eunuchs, then?
I think it's not "could be", but "are."
eta²: Oh, I see your ads, Jessica -- I was talking about the ones in the body, not the sidebar.