I’m totally overworked today (amen – I have work!), so I can’t give you long, thoughtful ponderings on writing. I can, however, share with you the junk in my brain that keeps me up nights. Add your own to the list. Oh, and if you have answers, I’d love to hear them!
Why do banks have braille on their drive-up windows?
Why is phonetically not spelled phonetically?
Why is abbreviation such a long word?
Why is it I can remember address numbers, phone numbers from the last 40 years, but I can’t do math? Numerically adept and mathematically deficient?
Who DID let the dogs out?
Thong underwear – why?
Why do we hermetically seal things like pens but package light bulbs in light cardboard?
Did anyone else notice the resemblance between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz?
Why don’t more people get Eddie Izzard?
What do you ponder?
I'm with you on the thong underwear. WHY BOTHER?
How did the cellular phone companies get us all to go along with the idea that we get charged for INCOMING as well as OUTGOING calls and texts?
Good question, Jen. And we pay without thinking about it.
Ed: how about is one:Why is the word AMBULANCE spelled backwards on the front of an ambulance? i don't know?
I know that one! It's so you see it in your rearview mirror.
I feel so smart. 🙂
I have to also comment on the thong underwear. While they say less is more, I still don't get it 🙂
Hey now, don't dis the thong underwear. I've been wearing it for 10 years and will never go back. Without being too graphic, would you rather have half an inch of fabric in your butt crack, or eight inches? Because maybe you ladies are built differently, but no matter what I do, it all seems to end up there on me!
I agree– I've been wearing thongs since my teen years, and won't go back.
Lori, I absolutely LOVE Eddie Izzard! Every time I see a squirrel holding a nut I can't help but think "Did I leave the gas on? 'Course not, I'm a squirrel!"
And I'd have to agree with Katharine and Mei on the thong bit.
Fun post! Glad to have found your blog…
I love that thong underwear brought you guys out to comment. 🙂 Shutterbug, Mei, Natalia, welcome!
Katharine, in defense of us non-thong wearers, I have to say I've spent my life removing material from that very location – to purposely put it there seems, well, counterproductive. 😉 But I agree – a smaller amount of trouble is often better, though now you're left with the culprit right where you'd rather it oughtn't be….
Natalia, glad to meet another addict. 🙂 We saw him in Manhattan in 2008. Let's just say I now look at giraffes differently, too.
"It's awsome, sir."
"What – like a hot dog?"
"Like ten million hot dogs, sir."
Lori — when it's only a half-inch of fabric, and it's meant to be there, it's a lot easier to forget about. ;o)
Katharine, I can't forget about it. I've tried. It, well, keeps reminding me it's there. ;))
"Hoota, hoota, hoota . . . lobster."
I HEART EDDIE!
"That squirrel was COVERED in make-up!"
Very good blog i like it.
Work from home
Very good blog i like it.
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Good heavens, Lori. Not only did discussing thong underwear bring out the commenters, it also brought out the spammers. What's up with that?