Question Answered

…the question being: “Kim, are you really that old-fashioned?”  upon reading the following:


…and realizing that I last used the phrase in a conversation with my sister as late as last year — with both of us understanding its meaning precisely.  (So did New Wife, by the way, when I asked her if she understood it.  She still uses it, occasionally.)

It is, by the way, a wonderful expression in that it acknowledges a feeling (melancholy) without taking it too seriously (i.e. by giving it a self-deprecating nickname).

Also by the way, I much prefer “melancholy” over “depression”.  Depression is a longtime (and potentially life-threatening) illness, whereas melancholy is just an attack of the blahs, easily remedied by the purchase of a new gun, reading a good book or listening to anything not composed by Igor Stravinsky or John Cage.

7 comments

  1. I once dated a girl who was melancholy.

    She had a head like a melon and a face like a collie.

  2. Never heard of it til just now. I’ve been watching a decent (so far) Brit cloak & dagger called Slow Horses, & I’ve been digging the Brit colloquialisms. My fave so far: “You know what boils my piss?”

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