We have inspiration and winner…

Welcome back e’rybody… I trust everyone had a safe and sane holiday weekend, celebrating everything you like to celebrate when a weekend calls for a celebration… Let’s get on with it, shall we?

Last week’s winner is:

PINEAPLE!  You salty dog! Congrats!  Now get on out there in the ether and come back on Friday with two random words.

Yep.  SNAIL / FORMAL art is due this Friday by 2pm PST.  So why not stop everything you are doing and start knitting a snail tuxedo?  Or maybe arrange some matchsticks to form a familiar shape and video tape them being lit?  The possibilities are absolutely limitless!

Inspiration:

SNAIL

noun

1.any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.

2.a slow or lazy person; sluggard.

3.a cam having the form of a spiral.

4.Midwestern and Western U.S. a sweet roll in spiral form, especially a cinnamon roll or piece of Danish pastry.

FORMAL

adjective

1.being in accordance with the usual requirements, customs, etc.; conventional:

to pay one's formal respects.

2.marked by form or ceremony:

a formal occasion.

3.designed for wear or use at occasions or events marked by elaborate ceremony or prescribed social observance:

The formal attire included tuxedos and full-length gowns.

4.requiring a type of dress suitable for such occasions:

a formal dance.

5.observant of conventional requirements of behavior, procedure, etc., as persons; ceremonious.

6.excessively ceremonious:

a manner that was formal and austere.

7.being a matter of form only; perfunctory:

We expected more than just formal courtesy.

8.made or done in accordance with procedures that ensure validity:

a formal authorization.

9.of, relating to, or emphasizing the organization or composition of the constituent elements in a work of art perceived separately from its subject matter:

a formal approach to painting; the formal structure of a poem.

10.being in accordance with prescribed or customary forms:

a formal siege.

11.Theater. (of a stage setting) generalized and simplified in design, especially of architectural elements, and serving as a permanent set for a play irrespective of changes in location.

12.acquired in school; academic:

He had little formal training in economics.

13.symmetrical or highly organized:

a formal garden.

14.of, reflecting, or noting a usage of language in which syntax, pronunciation, etc., adhere to traditional standards of correctness and usage is characterized by the absence of casual, contracted, and colloquial forms:

The paper was written in formal English.

15.Philosophy.

1. pertaining to form.
2. Aristotelianism. not material; essential.

16.Logic. formal logic.

17.pertaining to the form, shape, or mode of a thing, especially as distinguished from the substance:

formal writing, bereft of all personality.

18.being such merely in appearance or name; nominal:

a formal head of the government having no actual powers.

19.Mathematics.

1. (of a proof) in strict logical form with a justification for every step.
2. (of a calculation) correct in form; made with strict justification for every step.
3. (of a calculation, derivation, representation, or the like) of or relating to manipulation of symbols without regard to their meaning.

noun

20.a dance, ball, or other social occasion that requires formalwear.

21.an evening gown.

adverb

22.in formal attire:

We're supposed to go formal.