
Alright all you COVID couch potatoes, what is the absolute minimum amount that you may move?
Honey??! Make me a tuna sandwich wouldya, and change the channel to bowling when you bring it in.
According to a slimmed-down, rear-facing Scotsman, it’s a
THERBLIG
(in time and motion study) any of the basic elements involved in completing a given manual operation or task that can be subjected to analysis.
ORIGIN OF THERBLIG
1930–35, Americanism; anagram of F. B. Gilbreth (1868–1924), American engineer
Along with much of the English language, Mr. Gilbreth’s name has been on a diet, and getting leaner and cleaner over hundreds of years. Other engineers could honor him by (almost) tuning his name around backwards, to get the term ”therblig,” but the more common spelling is Galbraith. https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Galbraith It’s a good thing that most Scots were illiterate when they dreamed this name up. It would take most of an afternoon, writing it all out.
What is the minimum of motion that I’ve achieved this week?? Well, I failed to move enough brain cells to produce a 100-word Flash Fiction. I only moved a few computer keys enough to create this little stub of a WOW. I’ll get a move on and do better next week. 😉 😯
I’ve been couch bound all week thanks to my knee. Did you post this just for me?
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Just for you, and not for any of my (almost a dozen) other readers. 😉
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That’s what I figured.
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I think therblig is the present tense of therblog.
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It’s not a malaphor, but it will do nicely. 😀
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