what if there was a metal band called "seamstress of chaos"?

[cimorene]

• [he] had not budget, stubborn and loyal as he was


• more than enough to peak John's curiosity


• poured over a list


• played the part of the scorned boyfriend with the mellow-dramatics that only you could pull off


• At the brick of down one windy day,


• the opportunity to sew chaos

Comments

[pensnest]

I can't quite decide if these are hilarious or horrifying.

[cimorene]

I like to, as a rule of thumb - when I start to feel a tingle of horror - remind myself that most likely nobody experienced any dire consequences for these: surely slight embarrassment at worst. So on the whole, it's better shelved with laughter.

[pensnest]

It doesn't seem to be acceptable to offer corrections these days, so probably the laughter was never displayed to the perpetrators.

Mind you, the brick of down is so beautifully wrong it feels almost Joycean!

[princessofgeeks]

So poured is wrong? I'm confused.

[cimorene]

It's a homophone substitution! The correct spelling is "pore":

Etymology 2

From Middle English poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from Old English *purian, suggested by Old English spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to Middle Dutch poren (“to pore, look”), Dutch porren (“to poke, prod, stir, encourage, endeavour, attempt”), Low German purren (“to poke, stir”), Danish purre (“to poke, stir, rouse”), dialectal Swedish pora, pura, påra (“to work slowly and gradually, work deliberately”), Old English spor (“track, trace, vestige”). Compare also Middle English puren, piren (“to look, peer”). See peer.
Verb

pore (third-person singular simple present pores, present participle poring, simple past and past participle pored)

to study meticulously; to go over again and again.

to meditate or reflect in a steady way.

Derived terms

pore over

This is one of the most common homophone substitutions out there, and actually the subject of one of my earliest cartoons of Wax.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I didn't know this either. I've been living in ignorance my whole long life!