Time for another installment of Conversations With My Logs!



1)  Is chicken fighting a misdemeanor in SC - Section 16.17.650 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, current through the end of the 2005 Regular Session, lists cock fighting as a misdemeanor.    South Carolina Act #68 of 2005, amending the laws relating to uniform traffic tickets does not, as enacted, include language amending cock fighting from a misdemeanor to a felony, so in the absence of other information I assume the misdemeanor classification still stands.

2)  What does adore voce mean - In Portuguese it is adore vocĂȘ, which translates to he/she worships (or adores) you.  Or, it could be a misconjugation of the Italian verb adorare (to adore), which should be adoro voce (I adore [the] voice) or adori voce (you adore [the] voice).  Most likely, it is the Portuguese. 

As a side note, a voce in Italian means "word of mouth," while in Portuguese a vocĂȘ means "to you."

3)  Where to hire skywriters in Massachusetts - Superpages.com has one listing for AeroAds.com, which does serve the entire state but seems to focus on banners rather than actual skywriting.    I was unable to find a listing for an actual skywriter (though a number of articles ever so helpfully suggested I use the Yellow Pages and look under "skywriting"), but if you contact AeroAds and they do not offer the service, they may well know who does.

4)  Feminist dystopia - I would think a feminist dystopia would be a dystopia for most.  While a primary theme of the feminist dystopia is the oppression of women by a patriarchal society, most dystopias, of any category, are patriarchal in nature.  In that sense, every dystopia not run and controlled by women (and there are but few literary examples of those) is a feminist dystopia on some level.  However, for the more explicit and overt examples, you can look to Gilead in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, and Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country.

5)  Definition horsepucky - It's something of a polite colloquialism.  In a word, it means bullshit.