{"id":4456,"date":"2018-05-24T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T16:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T20:21:48","slug":"n-not-party-animal-im-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/ponte-vedra\/n-not-party-animal-im-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"This n That | Not a party animal and I\u2019m ok with that. Are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mims Cushing
\n<\/em>mail@floridanewsline.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I have a friend whose high school freshman son is the bane of his existence. Why? Because it looks like he is not going to grow up to become him.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy fear,\u201d he says, \u201cis that he will be a hermit and not have a lot of friends.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

My friend, I\u2019ll call him Mark, is a hail-fellow-well-met kind of type. Very outgoing. Super friendly. Looking up that phrase on Google I find this. (I needed to check out the hyphens. Does the word really have that many hyphens? It does.) Slurping down the definition I find it is a \u201csomewhat archaic English idiom referring to a person whose behavior is hearty, friendly, but usually in a superficial or insincere way.\u201d Interesting\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark doesn\u2019t have enough fingers, toes, and body parts to add up all the friends he has. Which is fine with me. If there is a party within a 20 mile radius from where he lives, he is out the door and on his way. Recently he asked me three or four times if I wanted to go with him to a party. I responded, three or four times, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And then there are people like \u2014 I\u2019ll call his son Allen \u2014 who would rather ditch a party and cozy up with one buddy, or a great book or, because he is young, a hot game of tennis. <\/span><\/p>\n

As a kid, my type of heaven was to play the piano all afternoon and read a good book. I do the same thing today. Minus the piano. It\u2019s hard to practice piano if you don\u2019t have one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s geeky and maybe that\u2019s what I am, but I am a happy geek. A happy geek revolving around words. Actually, Merriam-Webster tells me the word for a person who loves words, not oddly enough, is \u2014 wait for it \u2014 a wordie! <\/span><\/p>\n

The other day I came across the word \u201cparaprosdokians.\u201d I like to think of it as an Armenian word, because it ends in \u201cian,\u201d but of course it isn\u2019t. \u201cThe Paraprosdokians are coming to dinner.\u201d Not. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here is what it means: It\u2019s a figure of speech \u201cin which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader to reframe or reinterpret the first part.\u201d Paraprosdokians are frequently used in a humorous situation. \u201cWhere there\u2019s a will, I want to be in it.\u201d Another favorite is \u201cEvening news is where they begin with \u2018Good Evening,\u2019 and then tell you why it isn\u2019t.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

I have nothing bad to say about people who go to parties, but it pleased me no end to learn that Paul Newman disliked parties intensely. I\u2019ll bet he liked to read instead. And then I started discovering a ton of actors who don\u2019t like soirees and consider themselves homebodies.<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess you could qualify me as a homebody. But I do take the garbage out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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