In Angola, the situation was quite bad, so I was pleased to discover that the economy had grown at 12% this year. So much so, that Angola has offered Portugal monetary help during their recent crisis. The IMF, I discover, are helping many countries with what have been termed: 'bailouts'. These bailouts are made very much dependent upon recipients selling off any nationalised assets into private hands.
Pulling in to the car park of my local swimming pool, I felt and heard a painful crunching on the passengers' side of the car. When I got out to inspect, the damage had been caused by a post. A hidden post. A post which, after I had swum, discussed event with duty manager and returned to car, I photographed to prove its invisibility (I have the photos for anyone who is interested).
The Duty Manager suggested I might like a token free swim. I protested angrily that this would unfungible at best. Then I wondered: "Did I really use that word? and Do I even know what it means?". What's interesting is the use of a word which, sometimes, a speaker might not even recognize, at a pressurised moment, which seems to enter the vocabulary of the speaker as if by divine intervention. This ever happen to you?
Fungibility is the ability to substitute one example of a good by another example of the SAME good. Money is fungible. It's an economic term. Where fungibility is used in a non-economic sense it is used as metaphor. Commodities, options, and securities are fungible assets. Stock options are freely interchangeable and wheat stored in a grain elevator is not specifically identified as to its ownership...
Car repairs, however - and the free facility of a swimming pool for a day are thoroughly UNFUNGIBLE. The God of diction had smiled upon me and was smoting the Duty Manager - who did look a bit smited. I wont say smitten. Words are important in moments of high pressure. I'm sure the presidents of Portugal and Angola appreciate this as do the big boys of world trade affairs at the IMF. But they don't get 'given' words. They have to learn them.
Since God began working through me and I was thus embued with the divine gifts of a prostletysing wordsmith, I have taken to entering into more situations of un-known providence, sometimes involving a degree of carelessness for personal safety, purely so that I might better spread the words of the All-mighty, which I have discovered can be uttered from the mouths of the most humble of men.
And THAT, my friends, is the Word Of God.
Postscript:
I haven't yet had a reply from the executive director of the swimming pool but I have noted that the post in question has been painted a bright yellow. This clearly indicates two things: 1. The post was mis-placed and I was correct in questioning the fungibility of swimming fees and garage bills, and 2. God works through me and I have faith that my garage bills will be paid one way or another.
Pulling in to the car park of my local swimming pool, I felt and heard a painful crunching on the passengers' side of the car. When I got out to inspect, the damage had been caused by a post. A hidden post. A post which, after I had swum, discussed event with duty manager and returned to car, I photographed to prove its invisibility (I have the photos for anyone who is interested).
The Duty Manager suggested I might like a token free swim. I protested angrily that this would unfungible at best. Then I wondered: "Did I really use that word? and Do I even know what it means?". What's interesting is the use of a word which, sometimes, a speaker might not even recognize, at a pressurised moment, which seems to enter the vocabulary of the speaker as if by divine intervention. This ever happen to you?
Fungibility is the ability to substitute one example of a good by another example of the SAME good. Money is fungible. It's an economic term. Where fungibility is used in a non-economic sense it is used as metaphor. Commodities, options, and securities are fungible assets. Stock options are freely interchangeable and wheat stored in a grain elevator is not specifically identified as to its ownership...
Car repairs, however - and the free facility of a swimming pool for a day are thoroughly UNFUNGIBLE. The God of diction had smiled upon me and was smoting the Duty Manager - who did look a bit smited. I wont say smitten. Words are important in moments of high pressure. I'm sure the presidents of Portugal and Angola appreciate this as do the big boys of world trade affairs at the IMF. But they don't get 'given' words. They have to learn them.
Since God began working through me and I was thus embued with the divine gifts of a prostletysing wordsmith, I have taken to entering into more situations of un-known providence, sometimes involving a degree of carelessness for personal safety, purely so that I might better spread the words of the All-mighty, which I have discovered can be uttered from the mouths of the most humble of men.
And THAT, my friends, is the Word Of God.
Postscript:
I haven't yet had a reply from the executive director of the swimming pool but I have noted that the post in question has been painted a bright yellow. This clearly indicates two things: 1. The post was mis-placed and I was correct in questioning the fungibility of swimming fees and garage bills, and 2. God works through me and I have faith that my garage bills will be paid one way or another.
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