April 2010
15 posts
I’m sure it’s kept you up nights, wondering why I chose this name, so I thought I’d write a little ditty to answer all your questions.
According to dictionary DOT com:
“Snark [snahrk] —a mysterious, imaginary animal.”
Okay, so not really what I mean by it. Kinda, but not really.
“Snarky [snahr-kee] —testy or irritable; short.”
Yeaaah, that’s the ticket.
“Toast [tohst] —sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat”
I just wanted to write the definition for toast.
But really my name comes from this word:
“milque·toast (mĭlk’tōst’)
n. One who has a meek, timid, unassertive nature.
[After Caspar Milquetoast, a comic-strip character created by Harold Tucker Webster (1885-1952).]
milque’toast’y adj.”
Timid and unassertive and meek? It’s me! But here on Twitter, I get to be a little snarkier. Ta-da! SnarkToast!
It was all you imagined and more, wasn’t it?
The original Milquetoast’s small, timid character was then reincarnated in a cockroach by the same name in Berkeley Breathed’s epic comic strip “Bloom County.” Here he is, all dressed up and ready for his “Cockroach Crossdressers in Crisis” meeting.
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Fab way of dealing with stale toast. Click the link. Click it. It’s tasty.
Oh fuck, some of you people that I respect are following me. Now what?