Not much added so far this week as it's been a bit hectic to say the least. Nothing I could detail, just a continuous run of wake up, go to work, do stuff, eat stuff, do more stuff, go home, sleep.
For some reason this morning, I woke up with thoughts of death going through my mind; not for any particular morbid reason or even of my own untimely demise, but all surrounding the suffix "-cide" (related to killing or death).
We are all [hopefully not too] familiar with those acts realting to people, e.g. suicide, homicide, etc. and I had started wondering how many other variations there were. For a start I'd not previously made the connection to substances, e.g. insecticide, pesticide, etc. and I never would have dreamt the need for such a conclusive list as this one. I should add at this point that I will not be held reponsible for any actions inspired from referring to the previous link.
Then I started thinking whether our friends at Wikipedia had missed some:
Coincide: The mysterious disappearance of Ali G*
Fivercide: Breaking into my last five pound note
Inncide: Murder of local pub atmosphere due to expanding Pubcos
Offcide: No more goal scrounging
Seacide: The demise of a once popular holiday resort
Togettotheothercide: Why did the dead chicken cross the road?
It also explains why I feel so much worse after a night drinking cider.
OK, I can feel another serious coat-getting moment coming on...
* Very funny character protrayed by Sacha Baran Cohen, who actually had death threats issued against him a few years ago. Is this some kind of strange coincidence?
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