Dwarves in Thongs

You can imagine how it got my attention when my eldest daughter asked me "Daddy, what is a thong". My insightful response was "uhhh, what do you mean?". She was reading the book The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and came across "Then the elves put thongs on him, and shut him in one of the inmost caves...". "Him" being one of the dwarves. Oh, the sordid imagery. I had to remind myself that in the 1930's when the book was written until much more recently, thongs were not the butt-floss garments we might think of today. Thongs were a type of shoe. So I told her "Thongs are flip-flops or those shoes with the strap between your toes". I think I'll save the modern definition for another time...

Carpe Diem

Commonly translated as "Seize the day" from a latin poem by Horace.
...but sometimes I get the impression the day doesn't like being grabbed certain ways.
...I'm somewhat in agreement with the wonderful Oscar winning short Harvie Krumpet who goes beyond. "Harvie didn't just seize the day, he was strangling it" Okay, so you need the lead-in... Atom films has the whole film here. Oh, the fakts!