Amuse-bouche: Always random. 

An oxymoron(?)

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Today’s Wonderful Word: “rigmarole.”

Definition: something (such as a procedure or an explanation) that is long, complicated, and tedious.

Alternative definition: confused or meaningless talk.

Etymology: In the Middle Ages, the term Rageman or Ragman referred to a game in which a player randomly selected a string attached to a roll of verses and read the selected verse. The roll was called a “Ragman roll” after a fictional king purported to be the author of the verses. By the 16th century, “ragman” and “ragman roll” were being used figuratively to mean “a list or catalog.” Both terms fell out of written use, but “ragman roll” persisted in speech, and in the 18th century it resurfaced in writing as rigmarole, with the meaning “a succession of confused, meaningless, or foolish statements.” In the mid-19th century rigmarole (also spelled rigamarole, reflecting its common pronunciation) acquired the sense referring to a complex and ritualistic procedure.

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Confused and / or meaningless talk and complicated or / and tedious such as all of everything I every write or say and write and say or write. This the platform of ramblings and scratchings on paper, though it’s on keys that I patter, and never arriving at a main point like stream of consciousness but that’s another topic for another day. And anyway, as I was saying, this is mostly a long and / or meaningless talk about something always random sometimes. The best of the best leaves the rest in the nest and never tries to steal the leaves from the nest unless it lets it rest. Tomorrow will always turn to today as long as the day turns which is as sure as the sun rises. Today turns on yesterday and moving always forward to more complicated and speechless sounds around the loud towns bustling. If a rigamarole is rolling to add complication or / and foolish statements from those composing tedious, ritualistic procedures, then a rigmarole is the same apart from spelling the word itself, burying itself in the procedures of its tediousness. 

It all depends on how you write it.

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Answer to Saturday’s riddle:

There are two possible solutions:

LATTES or LATEST

BATTLES or TABLETS