The 13 Thursday Score
1. Every time I get a wild card while playing UNO THIS song plays in my head.
2. An aesthetic intervention from the pothole gardener: see it HERE.
3. I think it’s interesting that the British use the word “blooming” as a slang injected before nouns to intensify them.
4. Consonants are like carbohydrates that give language bulk. Vowels are like proteins, needed in smaller amounts and included at every meal. We burn up verbs. Nouns stick to our ribs. Adjectives and adverbs add flavor.
5. If obscenities were junk food, then poetry would be gourmet.
6. Sign seen on Facebook: “Try organic, or as your grandparents used to call it “FOOD.”
7. Bloomers are long baggy pants worn under Victorian skirts to allow women more range of activities and were made popular in the early 1850’s by an early feminist, Amelia Bloomer.
8. Moonshine is still an economic factor in our neighboring Franklin County. The Wikiepedia says that “in the 1920s, it was estimated that 99 out of every 100 Franklin County residents were in some way involved in the illegal liquor trade.” Today, the county benefits from the sale moonshine T-shirts and bumper stickers. They have historical sites related to moonshine that cater to tourists and a new Hollywood movie about moonshining, Lawless. The movie, based on the book “The Wettest County in the World,” which was written by a Franklin countian, stars Gary Oldman, Shia LaBeouf and others and opens this week in theaters across the country.
9. We have our own film being made in Floyd County, The House of Good and Evil, in which Tippi Hedren of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds will have a role.
10. There are lots of ways to ask ‘what’s the score?’ You can say what’s happenin (a greeting I remember using during the 60’s), what gives, what’s up, what’s shaking, what’s the deal, what’s the buzz, and my personal favorite, ‘what’s it all about Alfie?’
11. I love THIS recycled piano.
12. And now a word from our sponsors HERE.
13. If you thought that was funny, try THIS!
August 30th, 2012 9:24 am
I love the word from our sponsors……So are they making a re-make of “The Birds”? I thought Tippi Hedren was Meg Ryan’s mom.
August 30th, 2012 9:30 am
I think she is Melanie Griffith’s mother.
August 30th, 2012 9:36 am
Oh I just looked it up and she is Melanie Griffith’ Mom!
August 30th, 2012 10:02 am
I like the sign on Facebook. FOOD indeed.
August 30th, 2012 10:27 am
I loved the kids dancing with the Gummy Bears tune (not that I recognized it).
I also like #3. It does seem the wrong adjective but then again what about “bloody?”
August 30th, 2012 11:20 am
I’m watchin’ it, baby! LOVE THIS!
August 30th, 2012 12:37 pm
Love the piano. I did not realize LAWLESS was about your neck of the woods. I saw the previews a couple weeks ago, and thought it looked good.
August 30th, 2012 1:35 pm
Enjoyable! Thanks for the great posting, really liked it when i opened the first link and it was “Wild Thing”!
August 30th, 2012 5:14 pm
Your 13s always make me smile. The one about the organic food really cracked me up. So true!
August 30th, 2012 9:34 pm
That Facebook sign is so true!
August 31st, 2012 1:06 am
I haven’t visited your blog in too long (years, maybe), but I’m glad I did this evening, because it made me smile, and even forget the migraine that won’t quit…and number four…number four is brilliant…
August 31st, 2012 5:56 am
Oh how I miss dem Troggs!