“Superfluous wordy verbose”
These lyrics were penned and set to music in October 1981 at our fieldhouse in Elberton, Georgia. It is probably our shortest Slant 6 song. I wrote the song with help from Cindy Williams, our manager. Tonight I read where the average blog post on WordPress is 250 words, so I thought I would write an average blog post. And I wanted to test to see if I am either superfluous, wordy or verbose. As I am want to do. If I may say so myself. My wife things I tend to pontificate to the point of boredom on occasion. But what I say has content and it is difficult to express content in a few words. Unless our sentences are zipped, compressed. Like TV commericials, John Burns says they are not louder, merely compressed. Maybe we need a new language of zip. Zipese. He speaks only zippy, must not be from Georgia. Of course, when one is trying to do something consciously, it is more difficult and uncool. It is better if it flows from the force within, automatic. If there is a magical number of words needed for a person to express a thought, and if that number is 250, then perhaps 250 should be added to the lexicon of numerologists. Maybe dice should be modified to have 250 sides so that gamblers can holler, lucky 250! lucky 250! Or not. Have I written 250 words yet, better go check the word count feature in Word.
Peppers in DuPont Circle
Rats!! 251 words
Woman of Few Words
