Usufructose

Ticia: I learned a new word just now.

Ticia: usufruct

Ticia: Actually, it's an old word.

Ticia: It means "the legal right of using and enjoying the fruits or profits of something belonging to another "

Ticia: Thomas Jefferson said ""that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it... "

wintermute: If I ever become an organic chemist and invent / discover a new type of sugar, I'm going to call it usufructose.

Goosey: LOL

Ticia: Awesome!

Ticia: It'd be better if it had already been invented/discovered by someone else.

Ticia: You'd just rename it and enjoy the fruits (hehe) of their labor.

wintermute: You don't want me to be a sugar genius?

Ticia: Just, in the spirit of the word.

* ThePhan now wants to write a kids' book about a little boy who wants to be a sugar genius when he grows up but everyone tells him he can't.