Official Proclimation: Frood, Froods, and Froodness

[mishalak]

A New Definition

§ Whereas as I, Mishalak, the Minister of Memory and Culture for the incomparable City of Denver have noted that the need for a word meaning to know a person, but not well enough to call that person a friend.

§ Whereas using the word acquaintance to describe such persons is cool, impersonal, and awkward.

§ I do hereby declare that the world Frood coined by the extraordinary author Douglas Adams in his book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to be used to describe such personages and relationships.

§ Given under my authority this day the 9^th of December in the year Two-Thousand and Three.

   Mishalak

Comments

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

Okay, that works...

I want to call people I relate to only via LiveJournal my "freljs".

Froods 'n freljs...

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Not bad, not bad. But can you make it official using some sort of inherited office or official position? Or do you want me to do that?

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

I, rmoorman, by the power vested in me by the granfalloon of the Ministry of Pre-Legitimate Semantic Repurposiveness, do hereby recommend that:

• The noun "frood" be used to replace the word "acquaintance", especially when a lightweight friendship is conducted in 'real life' (that is, somewhere besides LiveJournal).


• The noun "frelj" be used to indicate "somebody on my LiveJournal friends list".

Examples:

"I would like to befrood the cute man. Ohhhh, yes I would!"
"If you can't stand his comments, just unfrelj the twerp."
"I wish she would stop behaving so froodily until we've been introduced."
"How he actually keeps up with three hundred and twelve freljs is quite beyond me."
"Froody? Him? Ha! *Completely* towel-clueless!"
"I'd like to enfrelj her, but I'm afraid to get sucked into the drama."
"You know, there must be a million people I'd enfrelj who I wouldn't befrood at all!"

[shadowpryde.livejournal.com]

Witnessed by I, Annabel, the Ambassador to the Grand Chawhee State of Colorado for the membership as a whole of E.A.S.Y. on this day the 9th of December in the year Two-Thousand and Three.

Annabel K. Bugg

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

W00t! It's like official then! <grin>

[elemirion]

Hmm does that make me one of your Froods?

I always wanted to be Zaphod Beblebrox, the best bang since the big one, as quoted by Ursala Galumbowitz, the triple breasted Whore of Eroticon Six!

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Totally! But wasn't it Ford Prefect that was a hoopy frood? Maybe they both were. I always wanted to be Mishalak, he's the one in the 6th book who confuses even Ford.

[mix-o-choc.livejournal.com]

Meh! I have no need for any official sounding titles. All I need is my towel. (hows that for a HH reference?)

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Not bad! But really, sometimes one needs either a clip board or an official sounding title. Towels only work if you're trying to get stuff and people think you're on vacation. A title on the other hand can get you past guards and locked doors saying "Authorized Personnel Only", because if you've got a title, well obviously you're one of the authorized. I think Mishalak pointed that out in book 6 of HHGG.

[mix-o-choc.livejournal.com]

There are books? All I have are the radio plays (12 episodes) Hey are there videos too? It would be funny to see the characters on the screen instead of just imagining them. I imagine they'd look much like the people on red dwarf!

Assorted Hitchhiker

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, Douglas Adams did books and I'm pretty sure he worked on the scripts for the TV series. Each time, however, he changed it, adding new plot elements and digressions into each version. I still like the original BBC radio series best, but they all have their plusses. The TV series, for instance, had Disaster Area, the rock band that played so loudly that they played their instruments by remote control from a bunker miles away. And the lead guitarist who was "spending a year dead for tax purposes." The technology wasn't really there to make Zaphod's second head convincing, and I didn't like the casting for Trillian at all, but there were definitely some really amusing parts of the TV series. Like the dish of the day at the restaurant. Hehehehe. -Rose

Re: Assorted Hitchhiker

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he knows that Rose. He's just trying to out weird my reference to a book at that doesn't exist. Or something.

Re: Assorted Hitchhiker

[mix-o-choc.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll have to track down the books sometime and the videos too. It'll be good for a giggle.