Pilgebump’s Weblog

And now, ahem…, a formal exposition behind the title assigned to this glob, er blog. (Ah, who the hell cares?)

First, a definition. Quothing the infamous Wikipedia Galactica…
“Trophallaxis: is the transfer of food or other fluids among members of a community through mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal) or anus-to-mouth (proctodeal) feeding. It is most highly developed in social insects such as ants, termites, wasps and bees. The word was introduced by the entomologist William Morton Wheeler in 1918.”

This is what bloggers seem to do. They feed on the information in their environment. Then they spit it out, perhaps partially chewed, for some other blogger to snarf up on, and so on, or not. Or maybe they chew it up good all by themselves, then crap out whats left after they’d had their way with it – the beasts, and the bloggers that like to schnarf up crap will do so, hereby beginning a new cycle of trophallaxis.

As for troglodytes, well, I can tell you, at best, my ancestors probably didn’t start walking upright until they were damn well ready. They saw other folks doing it, but it just seemed like a kind of fad at the time. They wanted to tell them this. Explain to them that they were being tools of trendiness. But trendiness was so new at the time, there were no words for it. This is when the Trogs, as I like to call them, came up with a special chant, and it goes a little bit like this…

Wild Thing
You Make My Heart Sing
You Make Everything Groovy
Wild Thing