Thu 19 Feb 2009
Waxing Lyrical
Posted by anaglyph under Australiana, Hmmm...
[15] Comments
How hot has it been here? This is a bag of tea-light candles that I fished out of a box in our attic. Candle wax melt temperature for ‘cool’ candle molds is supposed to range from around 55 – 65° C (130 -150° F).
Thank God you put the ° F, stupid American Schools!
Yes, very very hot. Very sorry.
I have googled it since your post, but can’t find an answer, and don’t know one myself.
If you “wax lyrical”, eventually you may “wane…”????
I would love to know what this phrase should be! “Wane dully”? “Wane non-Rasputinly”? Is there a literary precedent?
I suspect it might be a different sense of the word to ‘wax’. Or that the moon ‘waxing’ might have meant something different to what we now think it means… but I don’t know for sure. Will look it up…
Here’s a fairly authoritative piece on the development of ‘wax’ as a verb.
Thank you kindly JR, and I don’t aim to wax sententious or anything, but surely that thar level of scholarly undertakin’ & dedication to the furtherance of useful language is the kinda reason y’all come to visit The Cow. (Oooh. I felt for a second there that I fuckin’ came over all Al Swearengen-like…)
I suppose by the way, JR, that you’ve all but forgotten these kinds of unholy temperatures…
Actually, that sentence sounds more like something E.B. would say….. slimy little rat weasel that he is…..
Yeah, actually, you’re right. Dammit.
[Wipes damp palm on jacket].
Why were you fishing in your attic? Has the crick dried up?
There’s no cricks within cooee in these parts, despite the floods out the back o’ Bourke.
Once they are neutered, Terminators are so much more docile and controllable.
Hmmm. Non-sequitur much?
The only unholy temperatures I’ve been aware of for the last 4 months are the kind that make you suffer when your underthings are holey!
O-k-a-y-y-y… It’s not exactly what leapt to my mind…
It’s not my fault I am so much more creative than you :-D.
Creative. Yeah, now that’s a word one might use….