Selective Amnesia

Wheretofores and hithertobys and other such stuff

Where the frigging hell do the legal department cronies get their words from? What the f does hithertoby mean?

I met a dude recently, at a party. Looked sane and all, spoke quietly. Somewhere along the way he learned I was an advertising person – possibly I had let that fact slip, in a moment of indiscretion. The dude latched on to that. Since then, whenever he bumped into me, or chatted with me online, he would mention how great advertising was, why copywriters are the best people on earth, and also something about markets and stuff. Every damn time. Every conversation. And it is easy to see he has absolutely zero knowledge about advertising. In many ways, he reminds me of myself. Except. I wouldn’t annoy me so much.