The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

5 January 2007

No, it's not the band

How do I know this day isn't going well? A coworker was stuck for a word, and floated a definition past me, and said word turned out to be "incubus."

I'm not sure which is worse: that she wanted to know about it, or that it was automatically assumed that I would know about it.

Posted at 2:54 PM to General Disinterest


"I had, uhmm, a visitation by a ghost last night who had his way with me, you know, sexually? Say Charles, do you know what those things are called?"

Yep, always an awkward workplace conversation.

Posted by: Dwight at 4:32 PM on 5 January 2007

I'm more amused by the female version being a succubus.

Posted by: Vickie at 4:59 PM on 5 January 2007

But you know everything. It doesn't surprise me in the least.

Posted by: Jennifer at 5:04 PM on 5 January 2007

Inasmuch as the questioner didn't specify gender in the original query, I supplied both "incubus" and "succubus" along with the most obvious difference between them; many sets of eyes grew surprisingly large at this revelation.

Posted by: CGHill at 6:41 PM on 5 January 2007

Incubus-the Bill Shatner movie where all the dialogue is in Esperanto!

Unquestionably the greatest film ever done in Esperanto. Many fine films have been done in Toronto, of course.

Posted by: John Salmon at 9:26 PM on 5 January 2007

Since I tend to call you whenever a trivia question comes up, why should I be the *only* one who knows you can answer anything?

Posted by: wamprat at 3:28 PM on 6 January 2007