Heh, I thought I had been very clever when I came up with “PALimony,” and then I paused. Was it already a word? I thought it was. And yes, not ONLY was it already a word, but it actually COMES from “Pal + Alimony.” Anyhow. Nice to feel clever for a moment. 🙂
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Val said, “Anyhow, you can keep the house. I left it to you in my will anyway. And I’d try to do it legally now, but they’d probably require ID, and well…” Jo threw her hands in the air and said, “But I don’t want it without you. You’re my best pal. This would feel like, I don’t know… palimony.” Val said, “I can’t stay, Jo. I need to go.” Lasper said, “And we need to find Val’s body. Any idea where it went?” This got Zack excited, and he said, “They went to meet a spaceship! With my two friends! And a cat!” Feeling defensive, Jo said, “They got away from me when I was taking a tinkle!” Val asked, “Was the cat’s name ‘Purrloin’? Audri will want to know.” Jo said, “That’s the one.” Lasper said, “Okay, any idea where they were heading once they were in the spaceship?” Pointing up, Jo said, “Yes! They went that way!” Let down, Lasper said, “You mean, ‘up’?” Annoyed at his thickness, Jo said, “Well, a spaceship certainly doesn’t go down, does it?”
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Spaceships can indeed go down, but then after they do, they go in every direction, as do their occupants, who cease being occupants, or being.
It would if it were in a song by Astrosmith. ? Love in a spacetrawler! ?
The ? are music notes. I keep forgetting they don’t display here.
I hear you, Christopher. I thought I had a ‘Vocabulary’ game wrapped up with the word ‘pieridae.’ None of my entomologist friends were present, so I thought it was in the bag. But I also have friends who are, like me, know-it-alls. Ratseth.
Once in its proper medium.. you know, space? Up and down doesn’t really matter. Being parked in a Lagrange point still means you’re moving at hundreds of thousands of kilometers an hour, along with the star and everything else in the gravity well. It’s just that *relative to local bodies,* you’re not moving.
Well, yes, but if your frame of reference is a surface interrupting your fall to the bottom of a gravity well, a spaceship going “down” when starting from that surface is generally a bad thing.
“Why are you upside down?”
They can go in any direction, but it’s the sudden stop that will get ya.
I believe it was coined during a civil trial involving Billie Jean King?
Okay, I just checked and it even precedes Marvin v. Marvin, the first major palimony case, which itself preceded Billie Jean King by at least three other major palimony cases (Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart/Britt Eckland, and Nick Nolte).
Oh well. Such fallible memory.