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by throwanem 308 days ago
No thank you! I've never melonked in my life and I surely don't mean to start now.
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I thought it was about something like spelunking but you just explore yourself. Basically just the 21st century.
What's wrong with exploring oneself? Obviously not too much nor wrongly in public and never to excess, but if the modern spelunking is just urbex - which it is, in my view, and much more appealing than any dank smelly old cave - then, though I won't repeat the hideous portmanteau, I don't suppose I see too much of a problem with this practice, either.

After all - γνῶθι σεαυτόν, wasn't that the phrase? No accident at all we find it incised over the gateway to an oracle. You might want to think about that, who has just finished reading this now.

Mellon is Sindarin for "friend", so maybe mellonking is exploring one's friends?