Beware the Skulker

[partly]

I was watching a show and they used the word skulking. I love the word "skulk". It's fun to say. It's nice to look at. It's very evocative and manages to characterize both the speaker and the subject of the sentence.

v. skulked, skulk·ing, skulks
1. To lie in hiding, as out of cowardice or bad conscience.
2. To move about stealthily.
3. To evade work or obligation; shirk.
n.
1. One who hides, lurks, or practices evasion.
2. A congregation of vermin, especially foxes, or of thieves

You know, I've decided that I no longer want to be a Lurker. I'm going to be a Skulker. I will no longer be one of a million or so of those hapless Internet Lurkers, some pathetic hanger on in a group I never participate in. NO. I'm skulker. I sit in the back of the groups, barely concealing my innate evilness, patiently waiting for the perfect time to spring and set my nefarious plans into action.

oh, yes. Fear the skulker.

Comments

[powerpynt.livejournal.com]

When I was young I was a little criminal so my friends and I occassionally had a tussle with the law. One of their favorite pseudo crimes to threaten us with was "lying and lurking in wont to do mischief". It was kinda the fancy pants "loitering" of old so it was still a made up crowd control thing....but I did so love being known as a "mischievious lying lurker".