WEEKEND JANUARY 6

Just jot jan / #SoCS 7/1/19 - Memento

The only highlight this weekend was the invitation from my friend Monique, who had invited our girl's group to have our first drink of 2019 and at the same time celebrate Epiphany, or Three Kings day, one day earlier.



with a glass of Champagne and the King cake (Galette des rois)





This was our Three King's cake not yet touched. Inside is hidden a "fève" which represents a little figurine. In the past it was mostly religious, today you find everything from a Donald Duck to the Holy Mary. The one who finds the fève in his part of cake, hopefully not bites on it and damages his teeth, becomes King or Queen and has to wear the crown. As we had two cakes we also had two queens. I remained untitled ! Our dentists are certainly disappointed because nobody broke a tooth.

Sunday it was a real "stay at home" weather, grey, humid and cold. I discovered the "Just Jot It" word for  Jan 7,which was "memento" ! After having studied the internet from top to bottom or from one end to the other I found out that memento has so many meanings ! It was a movie, several restaurants but also different meanings. I stated with relief that my memento are the fèves because they will always remind me this nice afternoon where we celebrated Epiphany together !

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE SPECIALS : WHAT MEANS SOCS ??

Through Wendy's blog I found this "Just jot it "meme" as they say in Blog language, I would rather say "theme", but never mind you also say "lol" instead of laughing out loud !

As English is not my mothertongue I have learned a lot of vocabulary through blogging. I have always worked with languages during my working career, but when you work for a fabric producer you learn specific words and not necessarily every day words and the abbreviations in messages and blog language not at all. I had to ask what it meant !

Now I am again in this situation. I read the prompt list for January, and first didn't know why the word prompt is used, but Google explains everything. So I decided to participate but was confronted with another obstacle, the word (??) SoCS prompt for January 5. I have no idea what SoCS means and when I googled I got so senseless answers like SOCS = Security Operation Center solutions, System on a chip, Supressor or cytokine signalling which refers to family genes or "Socials" as meant in "The Outsiders". Socials, are as stated in the book and movie, "White trash with Mustangs and Madras shirts" or in our case, the rich kids. The opposition of the socs are the greasers".

I am quite sure that I don't have to write about anything which is listed above, anyway I don't know Security solutions, supressors or cytokine in family genes etc etc. I could write about rich kids, but this has certainly nothing to do with the prompt either.

Then I thought if I don't know a thing, I just can knit a story about the lack of knowledge due to my language skills.



One language of English origin is very hard to understand for me, the "Lol cat bible", even described in Wikipedia !

A book version of the website was released in 2010, containing selected extracts such as the stories of the creation of the earth, Adam and Eve, and Noah.

In the process of adaptation, various changes are being made to the source material, for example, changing the main characters to cats – e.g., Jesus Christ becomes "Happy Cat," God the "Ceiling Cat," and Satan the "Basement Cat" – while the "gifts" and "blessings" of God have become "cheezburgerz", and people in general have become "kittehs".

For example :

In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs n stuffs

Giv us dis day our dalee cheezburger
and furgiv us for makin yu a cookie but eateding it.
and we furgiv wen cats steel our cookie



 Now I wonder if there would be more people reading the bible if they would buy this version.

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