Making a guy is complicated

[kestrell]

At least, it is when your guy wears queen size pantyhose. And this is about the Guy Fawkes guy I am making. I'm using pantyhose for the arms and legs, but they just keep stretching and stretching.

I was aiming for a guy reminiscent of RiffRaff but, seriously, this is like the Lovecraftian squid-guy. I decided to hyphenate "squid-guy" because frankly, the sound my screen reader makes for "squidguy" is evocative of...something spongy and wet and menacing, maybe a squeegee after the sorcerer's apprentice turned it to the dark side, transforming it into a multi-armed sinister squeegee (isn't there a synonum for multi-armed that begins with s???).

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

seven-armed might be septepedal. maybe. octoguy? cephelabuddy?

here's what I really want: get a group of fans together to pitch in for a subscription to the O.E.D. Because that suckers is a fearsome database.

Based on my experience at the University Library, it's very rigid about font sizes; have you ever poked it with a screen reader?

[kestrell]

I think "serpentine" might fit the sort of word I was looking for.


I don'\t remember much about the OED when I used it through the MIT library, but it seemed pretty usable as far as I can recall, and the new OED site looked kind of spiff when I checked it out a few months ago. I should recheck it, though I am not entirely sure I would notice fonts, except when I try to cut and paste something into an e-mail message and I get some sort of error for conflicting Unicode or something.