Why?
Why the fuck would someone ruin a perfectly good powdered sugar donut by putting a nostril-load of jelly in the middle of it?
posted by Jenny Jenny Flannery | 9:40 PM
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Monday, April 10, 2006
Why the fuck would someone ruin a perfectly good powdered sugar donut by putting a nostril-load of jelly in the middle of it?
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I came up with the noun "nostril-load" all by myself (I'm sure my Mom will be so proud).
I was kind of hungry and we had leftover donuts from the weekend. My only prospect, snack-wise was a powdered sugar jelly donut or a powdered sugar cream stick, both of which might as well be filled with snot, as far as I'm concerned. Filling in donuts tickles my gag reflex for sure.
Besides, I wanted to write something and I've been suffering from writer's block recently. I thought this might be fit for PMT, if I Brautiganized it. But really, I just wanted to register my disgust. So into the Wood I went.
The worst part of this, is I bought the donuts. From now on, I'm leaving the jellys on the shelf. I thought Doc said they were his favorite but soon discovered I was mistaken when he took a chocolate iced creamstick and moaned, "These are my favorite kinds of donuts." I was sure he preferred jelly donuts.
Harrumph.
I was once talked in to trying a donut filled whipped peanut butter? Have one of those and you'll be begging for a jelly donut. Yuck!
Ewww!
::deep breath::Prepare yourself for the sword of grammar!
If you look at the sentence, you will see the phrase that concerns us: "...putting a nostril-load of jelly..." The phrase it self is a noun, or rather, the object of the preposition "by".
Nostril-load is the object of the gerund "putting". It is a noun. A nostril-load is a thing. "Of jelly" is an adjectival phrase modifying the noun nostril-load. So, actually "of jelly" is the adjective here, a postmodifier to the noun nostril-load.
Actually, nostril is being used as an adjective in this case because it describes the load, but since I combined nostril with load, I created a noun or more specifically a compound.
I'll take my pedant point now, please, to go.
And donut is a variant of doughnut. Both spellings are acceptable.
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