A New Competitive Sport

[deird_lj]

 On my way to rehearsal last night, I ended up behind a car just as the driver decided to clean his windscreen using the little water-squirty things that you use with the windscreen wipers. And his car's water-squirty thingys sprayed enough water to hit the surrounding five cars.

A terrible waste of water, of course, but the engineer in me instantly started planning competitions. Team Toyota Yaris and team Ford Falcon, facing off in a quest to see who can squirt wiper water the furtherest...


ETA: furtherest? This can't be a word. Surely. But I simply cannot figure out what the correct word would be. Must investigate further. Or possibly furtherer...

Comments

[the-starshadow.livejournal.com]

A mate of mine modified his windscreen jets to spray sidewise, then filled his water tank with Pepsi.

[dreamincolor.livejournal.com]

I think it would be 'the furthest.'

But I like furtherest better!

[carlos-v-b.livejournal.com]

What about farthest? "facing off in a quest to see who can squirt wiper water the farthest..."

[padawanspider.livejournal.com]

Grammatically, it should be "farthest."

I, personally, have no problem with throwing grammar to the wind in the name of creative license. It is best if one starts out knowing the rules they are breaking, though.