Thursday, March 23, 2006

Word of the day: Smenita

No, it's not a real word. It's one of those word-verification nonwords that Blogger has you type in, to keep out comment spam.

I tried to leave a comment on another blog this morning and got what certainly looks like smenita to me. I typed it in and was refused. Usually when that happens, Blogger comes up with a new word. Not this time--again, smenita. Still no luck, and again the same word.

Hmm, I thought. Perhaps that's not smenita. Maybe it's srnenita.

Nope. One more attempt and ... nope.

So I gave up.

Regular visitors Peter and God Is My Co-dependent left comments for the post below. I attempted to reply and, you guessed it, got smenita again. And it still won't take, so I can't comment on my own damned blog. Is this some odd cache hiccup? I can't figure it out.

For the record, my comment was:
Peter: I used to love Tom Waits, but he completely lost me post-"Rain Dogs." It all sounds like random clanging and growling to me now. (Grrrrrrrrrrrrr CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr CLANG!)

God Is My Co-dependent: Everything you know is wrong.


UPDATE: God Is My Co-dependent points out I'm not the only one. Smenita! Smenita!! Smenita!!!

Turning off word verification for the time being.

7 comments:

Grammarian@mindspring.com said...

The only thing I know is that Benjamin Franklin was the only President of the United States who was never President of the United States! Scary, huh?

Jim Donahue said...

Smenita.

Peter said...

Hey, great blog you have here! I'm definitely bookmarking it! Say, you should check out my blog...

I keed.

bon said...

godzooks... someone else in my commenting misery... I couldn't even comment on my own blog!

fakies said...

My blog torments me constantly with ever-changing word verification. It takes three tries sometimes before I can get it to post. The worst part about it is that they are making me verify words that aren't really words.

David Ker said...

You've been mentioned at the Centre for Smenitalogical Studies.

Smenitaville

tiff said...

Yup - another one here...kinda takes the steam out of back and forth snark exhanges on the comments...