It's really sar about Rod Donald. Still. Bake this cake and remember him...

ROD'S ORGANIC SPICED APPLE CAKE

1 cup chopped apple
125g melted butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp salt
1 cup walnuts
1 cup currants

Mix apple with sugar, let stand for two minutes. Add butter and egg to apple and sugar mixture. Add this to dry ingredients, fruit and nuts. Mix well. Bake at 180C for 40 minutes. Nicest served warm with whipped cream.

Phor is a term which describes an object or action which forms the basis of a common metaphor in everyday language. It is the literal manifestation of a metaphorical figure of speech. In other words, a metaphor, minus the meta-.

So, if you take the OED definition of metaphor:

Metaphor A figure of speech in which a name or descriptive word or phrase is transferred to an object or action different from, but analogous to, that to which it is literally applicable; an instance of this, a metaphorical expression.

And subtract from it the OED definition of the prefix meta-:

Meta- With sense 'beyond, above, at a higher level'.

Then you are left with the very object or action which formed the basis of the analogy which the metaphor draws.

For example, the look on your pet cat's face after you actually feed it cream (from 'the cat that got the cream'). Or, the perilous exercise of actually skating over thin ice on top of a lake (from 'skating/trading/walking on thin ice'). Or, the experience of finding that riding a bicycle for the first time, after having not ridden a bicycle for a long time, is actually quite straightforward (from 'just like riding a bicycle') Or, trying to propel your canoe upstream without a paddle. Or 'taking the cake', without permission. Or the red cloth tape used by civil servants in the old days to tie up bundles of papers relating to an issue on which no further action was to be taken. And so on. These are all phorical phenomena.

For almost every metaphor, there is a corresponding phor. Some occur in real life more frequently than others.

EXAMPLES:

'Look what the cat dragged in!', exclaimed Lola phorically, as she watched Fluffy pawing a mutilated sparrow on the kitchen floor.

An important piece of machinery in any sewage treatment plant is the phorical shit stirrer, which is vital to the effective operation of oxidation ponds.

DERIVATIVES: phorical (adjective), phorically (adverb).

ORIGIN: Coined by Steve Kerr in Wellington, New Zealand, c. 2000. As of Feb 2006, yet to really take off.

I have coined a word. A close friend suggested putting it on wikipedia, but one of the rules of wikipedia is that it does not host original research.

The rule states:

An edit counts as original research if it proposes ideas or arguments. That is:

* it introduces a theory or method of solution; or
* it introduces original ideas; or
* it defines new terms; or
* it provides new definitions of pre-existing terms; or
* it introduces an argument (without citing a reputable source for that argument) which purports to refute or support another idea, theory, argument, or position; or
* it introduces or uses neologisms, without attributing the neologism to a reputable source; or
* it introduces a synthesis of established facts in a way that builds a particular case favored by the editor, without attributing the synthesis to a reputable source.

If you have an idea that you think should become part of the corpus of knowledge that is Wikipedia, the best approach is to arrange to have your results published in a peer-reviewed journal or reputable news outlet, and then document your work in an appropriately non-partisan manner.

The fact that we exclude something does not necessarily mean the material is bad – Wikipedia is simply not the proper venue for it. We would have to turn away even Pulitzer-level journalism and Nobel-level science if its authors tried to publish it first on Wikipedia.

Shit and goddamn. Short of publishing my word in a scholarly journal, I think I'm just gonna have to post my definition here.

Unfortunately my word, Phor, already has its own Wikipedia page. Would I be breaking the rule by slipping in my new term by way of disambiguation?

on Radio Active 89FM
here 'tis...

Cassy & Dave The Hustler - Her Dream - Mental Groove
Rythim is Rythim - Nude Photo - Transmat
Random Factor - Convergence (John Tejada Vocal Mix) - 20:20 Vision
My My - Klatta - Playhouse
Freeform Five - What Do I Want From You? (Paul Woodfrod Remix) - Fine
DJTal vs Tiefschwarz - Digital World - Art of Disco
MRI - Deep Down South - Force Tracks
Michael Mayer & Aguayo - Slow - Kompakt
Psyche - Elements - Transmat
Steve Bug - FR 101.3 - Poker Flat
Metope - Parallel to You - Areal
Matrix - Blue Film #4 - Chain Reaction
Matrix - Equator Music - Chain Reaction
Kraftwerk - Computer Love - EMI
Nathan Fake - Undoing the Laces - Traumschallplatten
Kerri Chandler - Sunset - Nite Grooves
Modern Romance - Can You Move? - Warner
Skatt Brothers - Walk the Night (Ara Simonian Remix) - ???
Coloursound - Fly With Me (Headman Dub) - City Rockers
Clashing Egos - Aminjig Nebere (I Trusted You) (Joakim's Afrobot Mix) - Life Enhancing Audio
Propoganda - Frozen Faces - Zang Tuum Tumb
Risco Connection - Stopping Version - Black Rose Music
Savage Progress - Heart Begins to Beat - Virgin
LCD Soundsystem - Yr City's A Sucker - DFA
Gramme - Telephone Me - Output
Victor - Go On Do It - Envrion Unclassics
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind/In My House - EMI
Frankie Knuckles - The Whistle Song (Eric Kupper 12" Mix) - Virgin

Darshan Jesrani from Metro Area on Beats In Space a couple of months ago. Excellent minimal disco shit. Download here.

...is Starts off with a bang by Mobius Band. Free download...

More good free shit on Ghostly here.