RDP-SUNDAY: FATHOM
“I simply cannot fathom,” she said, “How anyone with a dribble of intelligence can think like you.”
“Not everyone thinks everything Trump does is always a bad idea,” he countered. “After all, we wouldn’t want to give those babies back to ‘bad parents,’ would we?”
“Really?” she said as one of her eyebrows rose high above her right eye. “I think he is a moron without a moral center — or even a concept of right and wrong — and anyone who supports him and whatever crap he’s pandering is at least a double moron. Bad enough to be a moron — I have to assume that’s DNA at work — but to willingly follow one? That is literally unfathomable.”
A fathom is a unit of length in the imperial and the U.S. customary systems equal to six feet (1.8288 m), used especially for measuring the depth of water. There are two yards (6 feet) in an imperial fathom.
What could he say? She was unreasonable. He thought maybe it was all about language skills. He wasn’t even sure what “fathom” meant and he sure as hell wasn’t going to let her know that.
“I’d become,” he thought gloomily, “A triple moron.”
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) loved the paddlewheel steamboat and the river. As a matter of fact, it was during his years on the river he chose his pen name. “Mark Twain” was a frequent call of the leadsman. It meant that the water was 2 fathoms (12 feet) deep and therefore safe water.
He didn’t consider the possibility of changing his political opinions. Not for a second.
Fathom.
He’d have to look it up online, assuming it was spelled like it sounded.
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brilliant 😉
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Never knew that’s how he got his name.
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It’s in all his biographies and I think he also wrote about it in his newspaper column. I read a lot of biographies when I was younger. Not so many these days, but a few here and there. You learn all kinds of weird stuff 😀
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Interesting fact about Mark Twain.
Leslie
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It was one of the things I learned early about Twain and why he changed his name. I always wanted to travel on a paddlewheeler and hear them call out “one fathom” … then, “mark twain.” Like being in a novel!
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It would be fun….
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As we don’t have such a unique president as you do with such unique ideas, I really did not know where to go on this one. The only Swiss inspiration we have at the moment is that it has been noticed that one of our ministers is falling asleep during discussions. I think he will be retiring at the end of the year.
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No one has a president QUITE as unique as ours. That’s a very GOOD thing!
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“Fathom” (66/Fox). Racquel Welch, Anthony Franciosa.
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