Category: random idiocy
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hone home hope
I had an instructor in college who despaired the state of the English language because of the way people misused the word “hopefully.” I understood his argument but I didn’t get where he was coming from because a) I was in the camp of people who felt that English was a language that had been… Read.
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puzzlement
Here’s your riddle of the day: Where’s Barry Manilow on all those “Saturday at the Seventies” radio programs and playlists on Amazon? I grew up in the Seventies and I can tell you that barely an hour went by when you didn’t hear Barry Manilow on the radio or hear somebody singing a Barry Manilow… Read.
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gesundheit
I sneezed this morning and it’s like everything came apart in my head. Slobber, snot, maybe even some brains. I was oozing stuff that I didn’t know I could ooze. Took a little while and several sheets of Kleenex to wipe it all up. I just love it that we can share like this. Thanks. Read.
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Where are the ghosts?
Some celebrity told a story on the radio this morning of the time he saw a ghost, a segment they introduced by asking rhetorically, “Are ghosts real? We’ll find out from so-and-so in a minute.” Um? No. We won’t. First of all because he’s an actor, not a spiritualist (DAMMIT, JIM!), but even more obviously… Read.
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is that a dibble in your pocket?
Phrases about working in the garden that sound normal when My Darling B says them but sound dirty when I say them: pruning the sage plowing the potato bed weeding the patch sowing the sweet peas is that a dibble in your pocket? Read.
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looks great but
It’s been ten years since Battlestar Galactica was rebooted by the SyFy Network. Everybody else’s take: Greatest Television Show Ever Broadcast. My take, staying in the five-word format: Looks great, stupid as hell. Looks great: Really great, if you get off on space ships, and who doesn’t? Stupid people, that’s who. And also, killer robots!… Read.
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middle
Yesterday, for what I’m pretty sure was the first time ever at the office where I work now, someone stepped up to the middle urinal while I was at the right urinal and someone else was at the left urinal. I’m almost one-hundred percent positive that’s never happened there before. At least, not that I’ve… Read.
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longer
They said the days would get longer. Why is it still dark outside? Why aren’t the days getting longer? WHAT THE HELL? Sorry. I’ve been up half the night. I’ll probably be a little grumpy today. Also: I’m ready for it to stop raining. It’s been raining since November. I could stand a little less… Read.
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vape? not!
I don’t have an opinion one way or another about the practice of “vaping.” Huff and puff on whatever gets you off, it’s all the same to me. But “vape” is a dumb word. That, I have a definite opinion about. I won’t point at or ridicule you if you vape, but I will chortle… Read.
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intention
I meant to do that … Read.
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