By: Blonde One
The Two Blondes are very clever (we have qualifications to prove it!) despite our blondeness (autocorrect changes this to ‘blandness’: certainly not). We have recently been contemplating Darwin’s theory of evolution. He suggested the ‘survival of the fittest’ idea. Whilst we were out and about on Dartmoor last week we came up with our own theory of evolution: the survival of the cutest. We noticed that all of the cows, ponies and especially sheep were very cute. They were all looking clean (must be all the rain), well groomed and mostly quite blonde. The sheep that we saw were particularly fluffy and white compared to previous visits. I wonder if in the farming community there has been a pact to ‘cute up’ the livestock? It must be a good evolutionary trick since no-one is going to send a cute sheep to market are they? It must be a matter of professional pride for farmers to have cute looking animals.
The Two Blondes often dream about having our own land on Dartmoor: we’d be good at it I think. We would have the best looking land around!
Still trying to catch up.
In fact your theory is halfway there. Human babies are born utterly vulnerable, except for one very powerful asset – they are cute. Confirmation often occurs in the cinema when a few seconds of well-chosen film can elicit the almost universal response: “Aaa-hhhh-aahh.” Only a beast could harm a baby.
However non-Americans should be limited to no more than three cutes/year. The problem with cute is that the word itself is cute. And a little cuteness goes a long way.
I’d be very surprised if either of you merited the word, any more than Boudicca or Catherine The Great did. Handsome can never be cute. But handsome is over-used and I’ve just dipped into Roget; how about: becoming, goodly, braw (Scots.), resplendent, or (but only when you’re wearing your boots) devastating?
I try really hard to forget the Shakespearean meaning of the word ‘cute’! You are right, we are not cute: I think we will go for a combination of resplendent and devastating!
Which could be combined to make devesplenent … if you wanted it to be!
devasplendent is almost pronouncable and virtually self-descriptive
sonorous, after a few goes