13: The Sneak Peek
1. I’ve been known to announce “I’m going out” with an English accent and in the manner of Peter Rabbit’s mother before I leave the house.
2. If I get a weird look I follow that by scolding, “Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden. Your father had an accident and he was put in a pie.”
3. It’s interesting to me that driving on interstate 95 from Massachusetts to DC ten years ago took about five years off my life but killing a poisonous snake that got in my house added a couple.
4. Only in Floyd: My friend Jayn came to our house for my son’s 16 Hands Studio Tour. Sitting on the porch with our cups of tea, I noticed the sweater she was wearing and said, “Hey, that used to be my sweater. You got it at a clothing exchange and it was Eli Gralla’s before it was mine. I got it at a Barter Faire.
5. According to the news story linked HERE, Einstein was a Hopi chief named The Great Relative, which is an interesting play on words, considering his fame for the theory of relativity.
6. Coyote is coy / his name tells us / Do you know why yuppie says up / and hippie says hip? / Or why hopi says hope / and prophet says poet? ~ From an old poem titled Right the World with Words
7. “Either we find the courage to live the dream that brought each of us to life or we live a ‘half-life’ of fear and resignation in the face of growing uncertainty and increased exposures. Near the end it is important to have ‘mythic sense’ and a ‘story-mind;’ not a fantasy to escape with, but grounding imaginations that can hold the two worlds of spirit and matter together. At the ends of time we find the roots of eternity again.” – Michael Meade
8. When I’m feeling uninspired and searching to find the right blog to post, I’m like a doctor with a hammer looking for a reflex kick.
9. I don’t understand why people call the internet “internets” like I don’t get people calling Massachusetts MassaTUsetts.
10. Said to Joe while dancing to Donna the Buffalo Friday night: “It’s pretty bad when you don’t step on your partner’s toes but step the couple’s dancing next to you.” (I take up a lot of space and often dance with my eyes closed.)
11. Seen on Facebook: Dear Santa, ….define good.
12. So I was flipping around the few channels we have and landed on Michael Buble’s Christmas special where I watched Justin Bieber perfor but I couldn’t enjoy it because I was in fear the whole time that his pants would fall down. See HERE.
13. Check out the cast of the Floyd Country Store’s Radio Show (done in the spirit of Prairie Home Companion) join in with featured musicians to sing a Christmas Time’s A’comin, and get in the spirit HERE.
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December 7th, 2011 9:28 pm
9. because it can be and is a series of networks. if government blocks “the internet”, it can only block the most popular pathways. Any linked computers can pass information among them the way an “intranet” system inside an office can.
The Postal System is backed by the main postal service and its employees but the mail system used to be routed thru anyone. When Canada was being settled, travellers would pass envelopes or packages from person to person going in the right direction and it could get from the Atlantic to deep inland in days.
December 8th, 2011 3:00 am
Such a varied an interesting T13, Colleen! I love that the sweater went fromhand to hand to hand—Now THAT’S Recycling, my dear….
LOVE #6, too…..You always see beyond in into the origins….
#7….Profound, I think…..And #12—-Well, I think his pants falling would be more interesting than anything he might sing….!
December 8th, 2011 9:03 am
Great TT! Did you know that wearing your pants like Justin Bieber originally came from the jail culture. It means you are ready for a quick you know what. There are also 3 ways of showing it. I will send the info personally to your email.
December 8th, 2011 9:18 am
#8 certainly resonates with me of late. Although I think it makes me more curmudgeonly than normal. I don’t understand why people mispronounce my county – Botetourt. They call it bot-ta-tort instead of body-tot.
December 8th, 2011 10:00 am
Ha! I’m a Peter Rabbit fan too. I promise not to look at you strangely. 🙂
December 8th, 2011 11:32 am
I’m emarrasssed for him, wearing his pants so low that you can see his whole butt!
December 8th, 2011 11:55 am
nice tt
Happy holidays and happty tt
December 8th, 2011 1:08 pm
These little boys are cheering me so each time I tune in ..My grandaughter is going to great grand mas.
December 8th, 2011 1:20 pm
Dear Santa…I can explain.
I forgot about the Michael Buble Christmas special Tuesday night — but then, it was on opposite NCIS. One must have priorities (grin). Ah, well…it’s sure to air again sometime.
December 8th, 2011 4:55 pm
Although Pearl is correct about there being a series of networks that make up the internet as a whole, the use of the plural comes from George Bush jr.
He used the plural in a debate with Gore in 2000 and again in a debate in 2004. It was picked up in a meme to show how ignorant Bush was concerning technology, and then became an inside joke to describe the internet everyone used and “the secret internet” that Bush and his friends used, hence there being two.
It got parodied on Saturday Night Live and then Stephen Colbert made it a staple on the Colbert Report. Several political pundits turned it into a further inside jokes by using it whenever referring to anyone who had done something less than intelligent concerning the internet or other technology.
Happy T13,
~Xakara
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December 8th, 2011 10:05 pm
Wow, thanks for the backstory and etymology Xakara.
December 9th, 2011 9:02 am
Somehow I always find myself chuckling when I stop by here. And – I don’t understand why people can’t get Massa’chu’setts right either!!! 🙂