Panadola Diction

Anagram Sam, Episode 2 of 66667

It’s time for another one of these tremendously pointless posts.

So the new blog description is A Taco Inlaid Pond. This is great for a number of reasons. Here are the reasons:

• Nobody eats tacos in Ireland, they are too small for our mammoth appetites, and are far too fiddly for our huge blunt hands. We prefer other, more wieldy Mexican and faux-Mexican cuisine, such as the mighty burrito (exemplified by the weighty examples purveyed by La Salsa in Galway). What better to do with tacos therefore, than to inlay a pond with them - perhaps by encasing them in a translucent resin at the bottom of the pond.
• Apart from tacos, other materials used for inlaying include wood veneer, shells and niello. Perhaps a combination could be used to spruce up the garden furniture near your pond.
• A pond can be anything from one meter squared, to two hectares in area, so why be constrained by tradition - supersize your taco inlaid pond.
• Beware, eutrophication can really fuck up your pond (see diagram above).

The confused or feeble-minded amongst you should click here, to understand the dubious premise.

According to this website, there are 66667 anagrams of ‘Panadola Diction’. At least 40,000 of them amuse me.

So, instead of the misleading tagline under the blog title up there, I’m just going to put an anagram up instead, preferably one which inspires a nice mental image.  

The first one I’ve chosen is Lido Panda Action. This is great for a number of reasons. Here are the reasons:

• There’s a chipper on Pearse St called Lido, which recently reopened after rennovations. They do a good battered sausage.
• When I was a young chap, there was a program called Lido on Eurosport, which involved scantily clad flowery French women parading around a stage. I don’t know what the point of it was. I remember a parent wandering into a room when Lido was being flicked past, and her being slighty outraged. “But it’s Eurosport!” didn’t seem to reassure her of its suitability.
• A lido is actually a fashionable beach resort, or an open-air swimming pool.
• Pandas are the Robert Smiths of the bearlike-mammal world.
• Every phrase sounds more exciting with the word ‘action’ in it.

If you can’t combine all that into a pleasing mental image then your imagination is broken.