Can't sleep? Maybe you need "spleep"

[DesertDog]

@Marley23

The really weird part is that the life coach posted his spleep entry back in September, but this woman has been using the word since at least February 2009. It must be an independent private joke.

It’s an upgrade from English 2.2 to 2.3 or even 3.0 Why weren’t we notified?

[Lobsang]

It’s catching. I was about to email the website. I tend to use an email address that is designed for spam. It has the word ‘spam’ in it. I typed it as ‘pjlobley_splam@manx.net’

[tdn]

Before I read this thread, I was thinking about going to New York. Then I got that song in my head. Then I read this.

And now I’m singing “I want to wake up in the city that never spleeps.”

[goodie]

I’m springing spexy back.

[MadTheSwine]

I think he has a spleech imediment.

[Mangetout]

@Bootis

Yes. What the hell is this. That’s a grown woman writing that blog, with very frequent, fairly lengthy, and otherwise generally well written posts. But she seems to try to find any way possible to use the word “Spleep”, with no explanation, as though its assumed by all that spleep is the correct word. Unlike the the example in the OP, spleep is the only form to be found. Not one sleep, even by accident. Over 40 Spleeps! What is happening? What is this madness?

I think she’s probably picked it up from Fawlty Towers (mentioned upthread by Dervorin), and I think the article that is the topic of this thread is coincidentally similar because of some careless editing.

[Siam_Sam]

I’ve heard whispers of spleeping in the Bangkok bars, but until I now I thought it simply an Urban Legend. :eek:

[F.Pu-du-he-pa-as]

Maybe he’s a fan of Aspleep at the Wlheel.

Also, I believe that Shkakespreare had more to say on the subject of spleep:

King Henry IV, Part II
Act III, Scene I

O spleep, O gtlentle spleep,
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And spteep my snenses in forgetfulness?
Why rather, spleep, liest thou in skmoky cbribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee
And hush’d with bzuzzing night-flies to thy sblumber,
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lull’d with sound of sweetest melody?
O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch
A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell?
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the ship-boy’s eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them
With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds,
That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Canst thou, O prartial spleep, give thy rpepose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the hdead that wears a crnown.

[Try2B_Comprehensive]

This is crazy. I am pretty sure my last girlfriend dumped me because I splept, while she could only spleep. It was odd to be quizzed on the subject, and odder that it created so much tension.

[Meow_Max]

So, if you have trouble spleeping, do you try counting spheep?

Or, maybe you can take a spleeping spill.

Still, you can always trying drink a gplass of wparm mpilk to help you get to spleep.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

I spleeping [with] your dpog.

[Darth_Panda]

New research on alcohol:

Stop drinking alcohol; alcohol is a depressant and can interfere with spleep hormones;

I bet you didn’t even know that you had spleep hormones…

[ajdebosco]

The woods are lovely, dark and dpeep
But I have promises to kpeep
And miles to go before I spleep
And miles to go before I spleep

Sptopping by Woods on a Spnowy Evening
~with sincere apologies to Robert Frost

[pravnik]

@statsman1982

amberlamps

Whoa, Black Betty!

@statsman1982

amberlamps

Whoa, Black Betty!

[Try2B_Comprehensive]

I wish Spuperfluous Psarentheses would chime in.

[GreenWyvern]

In the Fawlty Towers episode “Basil the Rat”, John Cleese spelled out s-l-e-e-p and Manuel, the Spanish waiter, construed it as ‘spleep’, and was highly puzzled.

[cmyk]

@pravnik

Whoa, Black Betty!Whoa, Black Betty!

HA!!