5/12/2023 0 Comments Slapdash meanShe slapdashed her way to Mars and knew all along there was no Emergency Room for when it all broke on that cold, red planet. All I’ll say is that Jo Jo McRocket had bat-shit belief.Īnd we will never see that again. It’s hard to comprehend how she did it, or what made her think she could do it. They just say “that is so Jo Jo” or “you are totally Jo Jo.” In fact, folks don’t say “batshit crazy” anymore. Though in public they tow the “batshit crazy Jo Jo” line. In private, I think the government agents and engineers investigating the launch are in awe of her. Jo Jo’s conquest of Mars took them by surprise. NASA hasn’t said how it was possible either. But I have no idea how she converted a WWII submarine into a vehicle capable of getting her to Mars. I can drive out the thirty miles from Pilot Rock to the ranch she bought in her twenties, and see the mag-lev railgun she secretly built over two decades. Only she knows how it finally came together. And she got broke a lot along the way, physically, emotionally, financially. She’d have to slapdash her dream together, let it rip and pick up again and again whenever it broke. Jo Jo knew that to be first to Mars, to cut through all the naysaying, she’d have to be a bit bat-shit crazy. “Slap it together fast and get ready to dash to the Emergency Room.” Unless we slapdash it.” When I looked at her funny, she looked at me seriously. “We’re never going to see something like that in Pilot Rock. Synonyms for SLAPDASH: aimless, arbitrary, catch-as-catch-can, desultory, erratic, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss Antonyms for SLAPDASH: methodical. Maybe the best way to convey her approach to conquering Mars is something she told me when we were in junior high and the new mag-lev superloop opened between Portland and Seattle. Jo Jo had the curiosity of a scientist, the discipline of an engineer and the humor of an undertaker. The building up to blasting off is easier to track. It’s hard to say when she went from dreaming to actually scheming. How’d she manage it? No one really knows except it took all her forty-two years to get it done. ![]() Even if it was a submarine she bought at a salvage auction and had trucked hundreds of miles inland from a navy shipyard near Seattle. Pilot Rock is not a place that necessarily inspires a lot of dreams, except maybe getting out of our one-dog town. When we were growing up there, and she was simply my neighbor, Josie Kerr, how could she even imagine this batshit crazy idea? The adjective slapdash is familiar today describing something done in a hasty, careless, or haphazard manner. I mean, we were from the nowhere town of Pilot Rock in the nowhere vastness of eastern Oregon. performed with quick, imprecise movements. It’s still incomprehensible that Jo Jo made it to Mars. But the dreamer who did it, who actually batshit did it, wasn’t a regular Joe. You’re right if that sounds batshit crazy. I mean, who in their right mind would believe you could launch yourself to Mars on a mag-lev railgun in a salvaged WWII submarine? Blasting to the moon in a tin can built with slide rules. Clawing up Everest in tweed jackets with brittle hemp ropes. But, of course, that’s how it has always been done. ![]() Send us feedback.Of course there were doubters. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'slapdash.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2022 The image drives home the slapdash, unlikely origins of Truman’s presidency. 2022 Judd Apatow grabbed a wad of Netflix cash and threw together The Bubble, a slapdash comedy with an embarrassment of misused talent.ĭavid Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. New York Times, In contrast, Eleanor and Lorena’s relationship feels slapdash and underwritten, with Anderson and Rabe sharing less than a nanogram of chemistry. William Neuman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022 In one of the fables that explains its origins, a slapdash artist paints a tiger’s head but changes his mind midway and completes the creature with a horse’s body. domestic politics infiltrated the agenda. summit, with its slapdash planning and the way that U.S. Helderman,, 20 June 2022 There was some of that as well in the reaction to the L.A. 2022 At the time, the gatherings seemed a slapdash, desperate attempt to mimic President Donald Trump's refusal to concede. 2020 Hitler Halloween costume was positively Ramonesian in its gleeful bad taste-but South Park also shares punk’s slapdash production values.Ĭhris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. Recent Examples on the Web Some were, well, carbon copies of the original, to the extent that Nike’s patent arsenal permitted others seemed more slapdash, a shoe with a plate inserted just to say it’s there.Īlex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 17 Nov.
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