week 9: uno

what intrigues me most about diy prison culture is the same thing that intrigues me about the oulipo: that creativity can persevere, indeed it can flourish even under the most severe constraints—be they the inability to use multisyllabic words or the lack of access to metal forks.

some of the objects that jailbirds have been able to craft during their time in the big house are absolutely genius. but alcohol? is improvised prison wine even possible? like great scotch, pruno has many different methods of preparation and flavour notes, but the basic recipe is the same:

mix warm water, fruit juice, sugar, ketchup and moldy bread (for yeast!) in your prison toilet. cover, heat occasionally, wait a month et voilà, enough hoochy booze to inebriate a mastodon!

i was going to make a batch and force my handsome friends and orson to test it out. thankfully this has already been done. what i can do is give you the hook-up on some other words that have uno in them.

ceraunoscope · an apparatus used by the ancients to imitate thunder and lightning
chaunoprockt · wide-breeched
crunode · a point on a curve where it crosses itself; a node with two real tangents
cunopic · dog-faced, shameless
eunomic · law-abiding; socially well adjusted or ordered
lacunose · of a manuscript: full of gaps or hiatuses
lacunoso-rugose · wrinkled with irregular furrows
nounou · a wet nurse
unodorable · incapable of being smelled
unorn · of persons: plain in manners or appearance

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this is a post in the ragbag word summer series. for this series, i search for words in the oh ee dee that contain a randomly generated string of 3 letters and report my findings. it is a thrill ride.