Weaving the 13 Web
1. For a couple of weeks my husband had a deer hide spread out on the pool table in the basement. Every time I went down there, I was startled by it, thinking our dog Jasmine was up on the table.
2. The deer hide on the pool table gave me a mischievous idea, one that I first heard about at Deana’s. I got out my big rubber spider and placed it where I knew my husband would see it. But my practical joke backfired when I forgot where I put the spider and scared myself when I later came upon it!
3. Today while cleaning the kitchen after breakfast, I thought: Sometimes when I have déjà vu it’s because I actually have done this before.
4. Today while cleaning the kitchen after breakfast, I thought: Sometimes when I have déjà vu it’s because I actually have done this before.
5. With one word the shampoo business doubled their profits. It’s the word that comes after the instructions to suds and rinse … REPEAT.
6. Sometimes I watch the news as if politics was a sport and I am checking to see if the referees (newscasters) are calling the game fairly.
7. My sister Sherry’s birthday is October 28th and it sometimes falls on the night that the clocks are set back for daylight saving’s time, as it was this year. On her birthday, she said, “What better gift is there than to get a free hour of life?”
8. My sister, Tricia, and I have both experienced jamais vu, the opposite of déjà vu. Jamais vu means “never seen” and it happens when a familiar situation suddenly feels unrecognizable or when something you’ve done many times before feels like you’ve never done it.
9. In last week’s 13, I wrote about shopping for meat at our local grocery store named Slaughters and meeting a sign holding woman with the last name of Pickett. In a comment my sister, Kathy, told me that there’s a Boston reporter who covers the weather whose name is Gale Huff.
10. Since then, while watching the nightly news, I discovered that there’s a Republican Congressman from California embroiled in a controversy whose last name is DOOLITTLE.
11. The name of the Democrat running against him is Charlie Brown. I swear, I’m not making these names up.
12. Somebody said this about the internet: Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks. ~Author Unknown
13. And here’s something that has the potential to unite bloggers on the left and the right: The future of the Internet is up for grabs. Last year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) effectively eliminated net neutrality rules, which ensured that every content creator on the Internet-from big-time media concerns to backroom bloggers-had equal opportunity to make their voice heard. Now, large and powerful corporations are lobbying Washington to turn the World Wide Web into what critics call a “toll road,” threatening the equitability that has come to define global democracy’s newest forum. Yet the public knows little about what’s happening behind closed doors on Capitol Hill. ~ Bill Moyers. Read more HERE.
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November 2nd, 2006 9:08 am
Great TT. I love #12.
November 2nd, 2006 9:14 am
lol at 3 and 4 😀 ‘Happy TT!
November 2nd, 2006 9:48 am
With regard to #13….
Al Gore is not going to be happy with someone, anyone, screwing around with his Internet. lol
November 2nd, 2006 9:57 am
i didn’t know that there was an opposite to deja vu. that happens to me a lot with writing – I’ll be like “I know that word is spelled right, but it looks weird.”
November 2nd, 2006 11:13 am
At first I thought 3 and 4 were unintentional…but then thinking about déjà vu I had to laugh.
And cleaning the kitchen and déjà vu! LOL.
Thanks for the mention in # 9…making number 10 slide in there perfectly. Nope, I wouldn’t vote for someone with the name of DOOLITTLE.
I wonder if anyone in politics carries the name DOOALOT? I doubt it.
# 13 is also déjà vu because they’ve tried similar approachs before.
November 2nd, 2006 11:54 am
3 & 4 cracked me up! HAHAHAH! I never wash my hair twice, it’d dry up and blow away! Dude, explain #13 to me, please…
November 2nd, 2006 1:18 pm
re: #5- then there’s the instruction for the people that just don’t get it- RINSE!
November 2nd, 2006 2:03 pm
I love the name things and # 12 was certainly true for me!!
November 2nd, 2006 3:13 pm
I’m going to read about the internet toll road idea right now.
November 2nd, 2006 5:46 pm
The names were a riot. Another great 13.
November 2nd, 2006 6:22 pm
Great list. Happy TT!
November 2nd, 2006 8:09 pm
It is frightening as always, the GREED factor that rears it’s ugly head where the possability of BIG Money is involved—The Internet stuff…DEPRESSING as hell!
Loved The Hair Product ones!!! (LOL)
My dear friens Betty loves to collect names that are funny or strange or weird, especially if the person’s vocation is involved…Like: Her one time Proctologist, Dr. Spurt! (TRUE)..and my cousin had a GYN named Dr. Letcher….!!
I LOVE things like this, myself…Doolittle….PERFECT example for politics…!
I always love your TT Colleen…and I know I keep saying this but I do because you never fail me with how wonderfully interesting and varied they are—includimg your creations of the TT Pictures! LOVE that Spider story….HA!
November 2nd, 2006 9:38 pm
First I had to go check out the costume post…so no answer until the weekend huh?
I had to tell Martin number 2, that is too funny.
I never do number 5 unless something unusual has gotten into my hair…now conditioner, sometimes I do go for seconds.
and 12…I like that!
November 2nd, 2006 9:52 pm
That spider looks so real, I would have been scared too. !
November 2nd, 2006 10:13 pm
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve experienced jamais vu, but never knew there was a name for it!!
November 2nd, 2006 10:53 pm
Boy! I had deja vu reading some of that….hmmmmm. Wonder why? Hahahaha!
If you read the same list twice, is that the same as deja vu?
November 2nd, 2006 11:59 pm
You never cease to amaze and delight me. A virginia bloggers convention sounds good to me. Love your tree pictures and your comments always make me smile.
November 3rd, 2006 4:37 am
I never heard of jamais vu, either, but love the concept — and I’ve experienced it as well. A belated Happy Birthday to Sherry!
November 3rd, 2006 9:09 am
Love # 3, 4, 5! I just lather my hair once, just to defy the instructions!
November 4th, 2006 3:03 pm
Love the Quote about the Internet.
November 4th, 2006 5:55 pm
Instead of a rubber spider, you should try a rubber chicken. I get a lot of yards with the chicken.
As a journalist, by the way, I have absolutely no use for Bill Moyers, despite the fact that my politics lines up with his. Maybe it’s because I know so much about his politics. Probably it’s because of the hatchet job I’ve seen him do by not speaking to industries he’s investigating–speaking to them would not have been pandering too them. And it would have made his story so much more compelling and truthful. More of an exposé, in fact. When people challenge him on this kind of thing, he basically says, “Well, I’m getting old.” No excuse,:^0