2007 March

3 favorite comebacks

  1. Shut up Becky! - Margery  Simpson
  2. Thats what you are but what am I - PeeWee Herman
  3. Your a big fat bunny head - Anonymous 4 year old

Rats!

Why do people say “Rats!” when things are not going the way they would like?

Why not say Dogs! or Elephants!

St. Patricks day, why are we celebrating?

Tomorrow is Saint Patrick’s day.  It occurred to me on the way to pick up dinner that I really did not know that much about him and why it is that so many people would celebrate this mans life.  I once again turned to the all knowing Wikipedia and quote below.

Pious legend credits Patrick with banishing snakes from the island, though post-glacial Ireland never actually had snakes; one suggestion is that snakes referred to the serpent symbolism of the Druids of that time and place, as shown for instance on coins minted in Gaul, or that it could have referred to beliefs such as Pelagianism, symbolized as “serpents”. Legend also credits Patrick with teaching the Irish about the concept of the Trinity by showing people the shamrock, a 3-leaved clover, using it to highlight the Christian belief of ‘three divine persons in the one God’ (as opposed to the Arian belief that was popular in Patrick’s time).

3 cars I would like to own

  1. The Jetsons bubble car
  2. The Back to the Future Delorian
  3. 1979 pea green Ford Grenada

Do I look fat in this? 3 things you should not say after that question.

1.  Well not as fat as you looked in the last outfit  you had on.

2.  You want the truth or the usual lies I feed you?

3.  No, no not at all.  (Actually it really does not matter what you reply with they will either take it as a lie or think you are being condescending.)

As mentioned above there is no correct answer to this question.  The best thing you can do when confronted with this dilemma is play def.  

3 imaginary people I would like to meet

1. Harry Potter, so I could touch his scar and say “Does that hurt?”

2. Dorian Grey,  I would like to paint him a “backup” portrait just in case of emergencies.

3. Betty Rubble - Um Hawt!

Counting on you.

  Why is it that every one tells me, “We can count on you.”  and they never actually do.  They may rely on me, have trust in me, or even depend on me.  No one ever really counts on me.  I expect a numerologist might though.  Incidentally the phrase “You can count on me.” has its origins in an old story about a Hen that counted her chickens before they hatched.  She had faith that all of her eggs would hatch into chicks.  That was as far as I read so I don’t know how all that turned out for her, got my fingers crossed for her hoping for the best.

Fortnight, exactly how long is it?

I have been listening to the Harry Potter series on audio books.  This unit of time is used quite often in them.  I had to find out how long it is.  According to Wikipedia, I quote.

A fortnight is a unit of time equal to two weeks: that is 14 days, or literally 14 nights. The term is common in the British Isles and many Commonwealth countries, but rarely used in the United States. It derives from the Old English feowertiene niht, meaning “fourteen nights“.

  • 1 fortnight = 2 sennights (or two weeks)
  • 1 fortnight = 336 hours
  • 1 fortnight = 20,160 minutes
  • 1 fortnight = 1,209,600 seconds

3 ways to do the dishes

1. By a dishwasher load and let it go.

2. Velcro them to the outside of your car, then drive the car though the car wash.

3. Neatly arrange the dishes out in your lawn.  Using the garden hose give them a good spraying.

Bonus way - Throw them all out and buy new ones.

The Cards

Title: The Cards
Date: March 5, 2007 4:29 PM
Category: Personal
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…so my wife laid down to go to bed tonight and all the sudden shot up and went to her den. I rushed in to see what was the matter to find her with a tarrot card book scanning the pages. She looked at me and asked how many cards are their in the major arcana? Dumbfounded that she had to find out right then, I told her I did not know. I do however know there are 52 in the minor one, I told her. Quickly she said no actually there are 56, I said well yes, if you count the 2 jokers and the 2 Hoyle cards with the score information on them, but no one ever plays with those cards anyway. Not too sure she got the joke. With a short amount of research it turns out there are 22 major arcana and 56 minor. That is a whole lot of cards to deal out.