Jan 10, 2020
Spell check did me a solid. I was with my buddy, Davey Dabs.
I was texting the word Indica, and before finishing, through some algorithmic wizardry quite foreign to my caveman ability to analyze esoteric computations, the prefix of the word immediately spawned a search engine result which appeared on the screen as the word “Indication”. For a moment, as my left eyebrow slowly curled upward like a cat arching its back, I couldn’t help but beam at the wonderful serendipity with which technology will sometimes astonish you with a surprise.
So, with my insatiable appetite for finding little quirks hidden amongst the mundane, there was no choice but to turn this into a little game.
The logical option seemed to begin with the first four letters of marijuana. And as the electric currents threaded through the wires and chips and into millions of readable pixels, those that were kicked into the frame in nearly a split second were the words marina, marigold, and Mario Cart. Suddenly, the thought occurred to me of how unentertaining it would be if Jeopardy was only played by computers. It’s the hesitations and body language that make it human, and watchable.
Anyway, I then started with the word bud and ended up with buddy, budgeted and buddha.
I had just become aware that it was possible for one word to be pregnant with another word. So, what if that word were to give birth to another word and all you had left was the suffix? Of course, I gave that a try, too, starting with the word Cannabis. And that’s where I quickly found out that the English language doesn’t work that way.
These are the kinds of things that occupy your time when you don’t own a television.
And by the way, if you’re attempting this at home, you should know that the word sativa doesn’t fit into anything else.
Davey Dabs is still trying.