Conundrum of the [period of time TBA]

A childhood memory popped into my head, some time around midnight:

When I was little,* I had one of those genre books "Great Big Pop-up Books Of..." This was a pop-up book of riddles, and all the riddles were the silly punning, sort.

And this is one of two riddles that I remember from that book:

Q: What do you get when you cross a crocodile with a head of lettuce?

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*Not sure precisely how little... But it was before our family moved from the suburbs of New Jersey (two hours?) north to the quasi-rural woodlands of the Mid-Hudson region of New York. So I must've been younger than six-and-a-half.

today's na'art

Another cross-post from naarmamo:

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Two, today, to start catching up on my missed days -- both done free-hand in ballpoint, because I couldn't quickly find a pencil that wasn't a stub.
And today's theme is "Disability Pride."

Ever since Na'Ar'Ma'Mo '10, I've adopted monsters as my personal metaphor for disability -- as I explain in this post from February of last year: On Monsters: Stigma, Shame, and the Medical Model of Disability. But the problem with making any and all monsters a symbol of disability, is that it still reduces "Disability" to a symbolic lesson for the "normals" (Irony quotes).

And then I remembered an aphorism in Disability Culture: "If you're lucky to live long enough, sooner or later, you will be disabled." And, remembering all those stories where dragons defeat hundreds of knights before finally being defeated, themselves (only the dragons that get killed make it into the human stories), it occurred to me that it would be very unlikely that they live their entire lives unscathed. So I give you "Survivor" -- the one-eyed, amputee, dragon:


(not exactly happy with the empty eye socket)

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ETA: Oooh! Just had an idea: When a Fire-breathing dragon "licks its wounds," would that instantly sterilize and cauterize said wounds -- thus making it less likely to die from infection and blood loss? Thus, making it more likely that a dragon could survive in a prolonged, disabled, state, than, say, a wounded stag (or even human)?
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This second one is a sketch for how I wish pitchers and jugs where designed, to make them easier to pour out of with greater control, and less strain on the wrist and forearm:


(I drew the side view twice, because I wasn't happy with my first attempt at the handle -- the dots are where the ink bled through from yesterday's heart)