June 16, 2005
Residence rules.
When you just really need to know what avunculocal means. With diagrams.
I have a friend whose favorite fun word to say aloud is "avunculocal". I have to say, he's got great taste.
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In Britain we have 'Down-the-local' marriages. Once returning from the honeymoon the new husband abandons his young spouse and returns to spending all his time down the local boozer like he used to.
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So what would that word mean?
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To live with one's uncle. It's number 5 on the list. There are diagrams.
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Interesting. I'm curious what a combination of 2 and 3 would be? Basically, all siblings are "prisoners" of the household. Their respective husbands, wives and children join the household. Chaos none-the-less! The house continues to expand...
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What about canilocal marriages, where the husband is in the doghouse? Or piscilocal ones, where one or both of the couple sleep with the fishes?
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The Residents Rule!
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Or stablocal, where horse-crazy spouses spend most of their time in the barn?
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I think The Residents are possibly the worst band I have ever seen.