This was supposed to be mainly news about our novelty/oddity websites, and the novelty industry in general,
but then I got way into novelty music and set up Restless Mouse Radio, so now there's links for that, plus I post the ocassional joke, and, well,
it winds up like most blogs... a hodgepodge of nonsense.
Fortunately there are topic tags so you can find relevant posts easily.
That dog won't hunt
I'm a big fan of idioms; in fact, I think they are the cat's meow. I acquired another from an article I was reading; "set the cat among the pigeons", which means to anger or annoy a group of people. I'm sure it will come in handy!
Seems I only get "page one" google results for terms I can't use. Because of the random nature of this "blog", we wound up #4 for the Washington state city of "Hoquim" (Yeah I spelled it wrong.) Maybe I should have discussed "Seqium"? That's spelled wrong too, (I think) ... Poor spelling seems to be the key to success!
Another time I was griping about people talking at the library, as of this morning this website is #1 for the search term "shushtime" - Gunna have to add that to my fauxcabulary.
I was just reading that a couple in China has applied to name their baby "@". (In Chinese the english "at" sounds like "love him", I am told.)
People used to say that "Coke" translates to "Bite the wax tadpole", which is making me hungry.
I hope this mom in China doesn't decide to make this a theme, with the punctuation, and naming the dog asterick, etc. She'll be calling out the back door, @!! #!! &y! (andy) $! Get in here right now! Get * out of the driveway!
They will know they are in trouble when she calls them all at once with the middle names too- @)#!&y^$$ (calling them) @)#!&y^$$ (swearing)
What's in a name? # will go on to work for the telephone company. Expect big things from $. That is all I got.
My sister made a comment about how she admired her husband for not swearing when household plumbing projects go bad. This puzzles me, I thought that's what swear words were created for! Actually for me it was mostly "Yuk!" when I had to clean out the drain pipe, also had a few choice words for the guy at Home Depot while driving home, but Petey D. Dog had no comment.
The guy at my night job who swears the most is a deacon at his church. He pretty much sticks to the four-letter words though.
I think I read somewhere that back in the day, a lot of guys in radio were prolific cussers when not on the air. I think it has something to do with liking the sound of your own voice. Is that so wrong?
I am slowly but surely losing it. The latest mental faculty that seems to be deteriorating is the ability to quickly assess the context of what I am reading.
For instance, my local paper had this headline;
Man wanted for peeping into dressing rooms
...and my first thought was, I wonder how much it pays?
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