What child are you?

Poststructural Pub
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Sunday’s Child Is Full of Grace

Sunday’s child is full of grace,
Monday’s child is full in the face,
Tuesday’s child is solemn and sad,
Wednesday’s child is merry and glad,
Thursday’s child is inclined to thieving,
Friday’s child is free in giving,
And Saturday’s child works hard for a living.

Does the child’s poem above describe what kind of child you were and the person you are? Inquiring minds would like to know.

No, this isn’t a pub quiz but I did partake in this exploration at a bar in a pub a while back..it got real interesting.

Moi? I’m a Sunday’s child.

MarkB

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Is this based on your birthday, or what?

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What does “full in the face” mean exactly?

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Does “solemn” mean the same as “serious” here?

I’m often told I’m too serious, so I think I’d fit in as Tuesday’s child, but I feel like Saturday’s child a lot, too.

My best friend here on campus lives near a girl named Sunday. If she ever has a child, I wonder if s/he will be full of grace? :stuck_out_tongue:

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The opposite of your avatar? :wink:

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Solomon Grundy,
Born on a Monday,
Christened on a Tuesday,
Married on a Wednesday,
Took ill in Thursday,
Worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday,
This is the end
Of Solomon Grundy.

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What’s that, the p.c. version? This is how it goes:

Monday’s child is fair of face,
Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
Wednesday’s child is full of woe,
Thursday’s child has far to go,
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child works hard for its living,
But the child that’s born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

I was born on a Wednesday.

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Your version sounds so much better, Walden.

I must have been born on the Sabbath.

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I think that might be “Monday’s child is full in face”, as in open, honest (sometimes brutally so :smiling_imp:).

I have calculated my birthday and, whuddaya know. :wink:

djm

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Okay, my avatar is a French bulldog. Opposite. What is the opposite of French? English? Bull, opposite is cow, I guess. Dog? Well, is that a cat? An English cowcat? :laughing: It is an animal. A human? I don’t seem to really be picking up on that hint, do I?

Is “full in the face” like plump? I thought it would have a more non-physical meaning.

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Sometimes it’s easy to confuse “brutally honest” with “platitudinous.”

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Friday’s child…though I’m not very inclined to be generous these days, I used to be. These days, cynicism usually gets the better of me.


My boy on the other hand, Monday’s child, and quite the cutie

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Monday’s child has learned to tie his bootlace.

See how they run.

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No, it really isn’t. This is where a dictionary comes in handy.

brutal, adjective
1 cruel, violent and completely without feelings:

  • a brutal dictator

  • He had presided over a brutal regime in which thousands of people had ‘disappeared’.

  • He was imprisoned in 1945 for the brutal murder of a 12-year old girl.

2 not caring about someone’s feelings:

  • She spoke with brutal honesty - I was too old for the job.

brutally, adverb

  • The old man had been brutally attacked/murdered.

  • To be brutally honest/frank, you look fat in that dress.


    Platitu´di`nous

Adj. 1. platitudinous - dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; “bromidic sermons”
corny, platitudinal, bromidic
unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; “the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations”; “his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern”- Gwethalyn Graham

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Cynth wrote;

What does “full in the face” mean exactly?

I think it means that the person is constipated :laughing:

MarkB

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I rather thought that Superman was the end of Solomon Grundy…

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:smiley: :laughing:

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So, jsluder thinks my avatar looks like it has the trots? Dude, I am really lost. :laughing:

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fear not, there is help.

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I was born on a Friday and my brother on a Sunday, I believe. He plays hockey so I guess he could be full of grace, until there’s an intentional collision.