just don't get me started on the purple people eater

So it appears that the general consensus is "a yellow, polka-dot bikini" -- also the interpretation given by the ad in question -- which is interesting because I've always parsed it as "a yellow-polka-dot bikini", as do 17.6% of the rest of you. I suppose one could take this as an object lesson in never taking for granted what the other person's hearing.

• New Thing Learned for 4 April: The Great Gatsby sold a grand total of 7 copies in 1940, two of which were purchased by Fitzgerald himself as gifts. There's hope for me yet, I suppose. [Source: PBS documentary on novelists.]
  
  
• New Thing Learned for 5 April: Remember that treasure hunt for the golden rabbit, way back when? Turned out the finder had some inside information... [Source: Wikipedia]
  
  
• New Thing Learned for 6 April: "Zorro" is Spanish for "fox", which was a real "...ahh" moment. [Source: muckefuck.]

I've got the eBaying-of-yarn down to a routine now, if the relatively painless listing experience yesterday means anything. Now if I can just get the last couple kinks with the photography worked out, I might be getting somewhere. (Half the battle, as always, is keeping the cat from coming along in the middle and sitting on the nice black background drape with her strategically placed white bits.) So far my best customer is in Sheffield, which is amusingly globalizationy but always makes me want to do violence to the post office's excuse for a rate calculator. I'll make a business of this yet or choke on a sheep trying...