What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

thewimminpamphlet:

fozmeadows:

dear fellow Australians of tumblr:

did anyone else grow up referring to large hairy spiders as triantewobagongs, or is that just something my family does?

No, but I feel it must be related to the TRIANTIWONTIGONGOLOPE of CJ Lewis’s poem, surely? @fozmeadows http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/denniscj/bookforkids/triantiwontigongolope.html

Ah yes, that’ll be it! A malapropism from CJ Dennis :)

(via thewimminpamphlet)

  1. luthienebonyx reblogged this from undun-duz and added:
    So try, tri-anti-wonti, triantiwontigongolope!
  2. undun-duz reblogged this from fozmeadows and added:
    My great granny called the ‘triantelopes’, and reportedly couldn’t stand it when people squashed them because she could...
  3. mtr-amg reblogged this from fozmeadows and added:
    oh, I remember the Triantiwontigongolope
  4. eponasfoal reblogged this from fozmeadows
  5. fozmeadows reblogged this from thewimminpamphlet and added:
    Ah yes, that’ll be it! A malapropism from CJ Dennis :)
  6. thewimminpamphlet reblogged this from fozmeadows and added:
    No, but I feel it must be related to the TRIANTIWONTIGONGOLOPE of CJ Lewis’s poem, surely? @fozmeadows...
  7. stuffont reblogged this from fozmeadows and added:
    Nope. C.J. Dennis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._J._Dennis
  8. jackironsides reblogged this from fozmeadows and added:
    Wasn’t a thing in my house, but I kinda wish it was?
  9. prussanic-miscellanea answered: I have never, ever heard that term BUT I THINK IT IS FANTASTIC.
  10. wojit answered: Nooope definitely not in my fam
  11. dancing-crow answered: now you are just putting us on
  12. fuckyouallurlsaretaken reblogged this from fozmeadows
  13. mojoflower reblogged this from fozmeadows
  14. ryanscottkennedy reblogged this from fozmeadows and added:
    Never heard of it!
  15. carrionlaughing answered: definitely wasn’t something in my family (in melbourne). i feel i missed out.