Profound, profane or pedestrian

gallimaufry:
–noun, plural -fries. Chiefly Literary .
1. a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
2. a ragout or hash.

Origin:
1545–55; < MF galimafree kind of sauce or stew, prob. a conflation of galer to amuse oneself ( see gallant) and Picard dial. mafrer to gorge oneself (< MD moffelen to eat, nosh)

From Dictionary.com:
Diegesis

\Di'e*ge"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to narrate; dia` through + ? to lead.] A narrative or history; a recital or relation.

(I only needed this because I was reading the last chapter of Why Buffy matters and Rhonda Wilcox kept using the words diegetic and non-diegetic).

As much as I love using "asshat" as an insult, I think I just found a better one. It's not my own - it was a poster on Whedonesque but I can't find the thread anymore.

Anyway, the word is ASSCLOWN. Now how sweet is that? ASSCLOWN! ASSCLOWN!

I have my word for the day!

If you were the poster on that thread, please tell me and I will give you all credit for such a sweet, sweet word.

Now I just have to think of a way to slide it into next week's team meeting!

... and industry mavens will be meeting in boardrooms all around the nation, anxiously anticipating fluctuations ...."

As I read this sentence in some dreary book this morning, my mind wandered .....

It is a boardroom, a carpet so lush that last year's work experience kid is still lost in the pile. In the centre is a teak table so large that not one but two 3rd world countries sacrificed their entire rain forest to make it. Around the table, the chairs made from hand-tooled Okapi leather are all filled with anonymous cloned suits, mind numbing in their platitudes. All of them except one that is - for he is the MAVEN. Tall, powerful and not a little intimidating, with a long beak, glossy black feathers covering his broad frame, he strides to the front of the room. Quoth the maven, "Evermore!"

Any way, that's what my mind did - it's a funny thing is the mind.