CONTUMELY

ANYONE heard of CONTUMELY?

No, in the world of illiterate copy-and-paste Internet morons, the word is "contusion."

I remember being quite amused at Ian Dury's use of "contumely" in "Pam's Moods," but I wondered if I'd misheard it. Although despite the -ly ending, it's a noun.

As previously mentioned, I foolishly went to "lyric" sites, where I found a ton of idiotic crap with atrocious spelling mistakes. The line was "derision and contusion" there. I thought, my hearing is not what it was, but I do KNOW the difference between someone singing CONTUSION and CONTUMELY.

Aside from checking the idiot Internet lyric pages, I'd gone to Ian's site, but found they didn't have lyrics, just a mention that a book of them was for sale.

Ah. My mistake. I SHOULD HAVE searched for CONTUMELY and "PAM'S MOODS."

Which is what I ended up doing.

Thanks to the copyright thieves at Google, I got THIS:

Yes, it's the page out of the lyric book the Dury site is selling. As far as GOOGLE as concerned, every book should have dozens upon dozens of free-scanned pages. In fact, often almost the entire book is on the site. This means that if you're looking for one piece of information, you don't have to buy the book. Ha ha ho ho hee hee.

All seriousness aside, when I learned that the book had a CD with it as a bonus, I thought, "OK you're bending over a little, so I will, too." And I ordered the fucking thing.

Today has still been one of contumely, and not just in a line in a Dury song. But that's the 21st Century...