13: No BS
1. Best line heard this week, spoken by a farmer: “Yeah, I have a PHD. It’s called a post hole digger.”
2. Joe and I went out for a drive the other night to look at the full moon and take pictures, but I couldn’t find the black camera case in the dark car at night. “It’s camouflaged,” I suggested. “No, it’s cameraflaged,” he corrected.
3. It’s fun to imagine a visual for the word “brainstorm.”
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5. Republican candidates for president on what they would bring to the White House – Santorum: A new bedroom. Gingrich: Ballet and music and some other stuff. Paul: “A bushel of common sense” and a course on Austrian economics. Perry: “I’m going to bring the most beautiful and thoughtful First Lady this nation has ever seen.” Bachmann: The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Romney: Copies Perry, said he’d bring his wife. Cain: “A sense of humor because Americans are too uptight.” Huntsman: Ever out to prove he is the coolest candidate, Huntsman said he’d bring his Harley.
6. Pants on Fire HERE.
7. Sadly, I’ve come to the conclusion that the world – with all its doublespeak, big government lies, intolerance, war, environmental degradation and corporations that care more about profit than people – is like a dysfunctional family that I need to have healthy boundaries from. But that doesn’t mean I turn a blind eye.
8. Our oral tradition is like an endangered songbird / crowded out by the starling chatter / And we are like old growth forests / replanted in pines / We twist language / distort its limbs / cough up slogans / like words were money / we were too poor to spend.
9. “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
10. Michele Bachmann finally got something right: It was wrong that Texas governor Rick Perry bypassed his own state legislature to mandate that the HPV (gardasil) vaccine be given to all sixth grade girls, especially considering its record of serious side effects and Perry’s ties to the big business pharmaceutical company that makes the vaccine.
11. According to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a federal vaccine tracking system, as of June 22, 2011 there have been a total 68 reports of death among those who have received Gardasil. More HERE.
12. Toyota 52 Deaths, Gardasil 49. Toyota Recalled.
13. Deja Moo: The feeling that you’ve heard this bull before.
September 15th, 2011 1:05 am
Cameraflaged!! That is awesome!
#4 – I could totally read that. freaky.
Gardasil is scary. There is no way I would let someone inject that into my daughter (or me).
#12 – that says it all!
September 15th, 2011 1:17 am
Oy! I think I’m just tired enough that I could actually understand #4.
September 15th, 2011 8:22 am
I am not too sure I am into the “Pants on Fire” items for men. It will take me some time to get used to.
The Gardasil is an absolutely sin!! To have it on the market is bad enough, then to have it mandated!!! All of the 13 are good and thought provoking……Excellent TT! xo
September 15th, 2011 9:57 am
Love the “Deja Moo” ! Great Kurt Vonnegut quote as well. Quite a bit of wisdom here.
Cindy @ Notes in the Key of Life
September 15th, 2011 12:04 pm
Love number 4! That is so cool! Recently, I have been really interested in learning about how the brain interprets incoming information. Apparently, it is so economical in this respect, that it can completely disregard information that does not make sense, and then give too much attention to information that seems to fit a schema or predesignated landscape of understanding. Seems like, given that knowledge, it is very important to try to pay attention to how you are perceiving things, and always second guess to make sure you are seeing what is really there and not seeing what is not there…
September 15th, 2011 12:47 pm
My husband has always told me he has that particular PH.D. Apparently most farmers do.
September 15th, 2011 12:51 pm
Dew, Of course it made me want to come up with a PHD phrase for what I do. But I haven’t got a good one yet.
Poe, I love gibberish, codes, vanity license plate spelling and how the brain makes up for deficits.
September 15th, 2011 1:03 pm
What does it mean if you can read #4? Depending on your answer I may or may not have been able to read it 🙂
September 15th, 2011 1:29 pm
L33T people can read #4 so, therefore, I can. 🙂
September 15th, 2011 1:41 pm
I don’t know what it means if you can read it, but it says “only certain people can read it,” proving I can. I don’t know what L33T means either, written by Claire above. 3’s are E’s and T’s are 7’s. I know that because I had to study it to write “Seen on Facebook.” The writing needs to be in context, not on it’s own.
September 15th, 2011 2:38 pm
Pretty funny list. I especially liked #7, #9, #10 and 13… I liked the Vonnegut quote even though I do also like semi-colons…
And I will have to use that deja moo, for sure!
Happy TT!
September 15th, 2011 8:23 pm
#1 appeals to me a lot- this country girl !1sandy
September 15th, 2011 8:39 pm
Leet speak, (written, L33T, L337, 1337), comes from the online gaming community and the hacker community. Being Leet/l33t means being elite and comes from the word elite.
It’s often a numeric substitution like l33t, n00b, w00t, but can be all symbols lik @$$, or all lets like “pwned”.
The moment in l33t speak brought to you by the letter E. *grin*
Happy T13,
~Xakara
My Week
September 15th, 2011 8:44 pm
My license plate says L3t it B.
September 15th, 2011 11:05 pm
oh, you had me in stitches with #1. #2 too. I watched that last debate – audience members cheered and responded positively to the question about whether patients w/ no insurance should just be left to die. these pro-lifers, aren’t they a hoot? that’s some Deja Moo.
September 16th, 2011 10:40 am
seems to me #7 & #8 are in a accelerating feedback loop–when we stopped listening to and respecting the old stories and the old storytellers we lost the ability to discern truth…can’t prove it…just saying…
some weird mix of funny and scary stuff in your list!
September 16th, 2011 11:29 am
I call it the Mash model, a mix of comedy with serious drama.
September 16th, 2011 12:10 pm
Moo, moo, moo. but you’ve probably heard this before.
I’m stealing #4, the FB message… at first I thought it was an extension of #3, your visualization of a BR41N 57ORM!
Now I; understand why Vonnegut’s; book, “Cat’s Cradle,” always; confused me.
uuummmm, Gardasil sucks….. Thanks for the info
September 17th, 2011 4:58 am
the last one is an appropriate description of the entire 2012 campaign, and i am sick of it already! as always, colleen, good work here! 🙂
September 18th, 2011 6:27 am
1. awesomeness!
7. good position.
9. nope, still nothing he’s said impresses me.
13. heh.
September 18th, 2011 11:17 am
I always love your list…and especially love the Kurt Vonnegut quote. Made me laugh!!!!
September 21st, 2011 6:26 am
But…I love semi-colons! And I loved them long before I went to college. 🙁
September 21st, 2011 6:32 am
I do think they are kind of pretentious or gaudy maybe, even though they do have their place.