The other day I was watching a How I Met Your Mother episode where Ted says that if you say the word “bowl” long enough, it stops sounding like a word. I think that that’s so true. One time, I even tweeted (yeah, I’m a twerd) (yeah I made that word up by combining the words “twitter” and “nerd”) that if you look at the word “existence” long enough, it stops looking like a word. Which I thought was ironic (yeah, I’m a regular nerd too.) Anyway, tonight, I Stumbled upon this Wikipedia entry on “semantic satiation,” which describes Ted’s bowl-theory. Oh the things one does whilst bored. And speaking of bowls, check it: