"And the stains comin' from my blood tell me 'Go back home'..."

AhahaHAHAHA!

 

Just felt like laughing is all.

 

If anybody feels like giving me ice cream, you have no idea how much I'd appreciate that.  That's what I really really want right now.  Either that or lots of cold water to pour down my back.  Ahhhh, cold water down my back.... ahhhh..... Even imagining it feels wonderful.

 

And I just want everyone to know that I have been playing online pictionary at www.iSketch.net  It's great fun, and if ever you want to play me, let me know.  I'm almost always online, as you well know.  I've just been promoted from "Newbie" so now I have the privelege of "warning the artist" if they break rules or draw offensive things.  Woohoo.  And also I play online Boggle, but thats more a single player deal.  One of these days, I'll get my name on the high score list.  I've just got to!  And the Jumble doesnt even have a high score list, so I only do that once a week (but i play a whole weeks worth.  it only takes me about 2 minutes to do all 7 of them)  I like games...

 

And today happens to be: Machine Day.  Tomorrow is National Juggling Day.  I doubt I'll be putting out an e-mail tomorrow, so you'll just have to remember.  Maybe you can juggle the Sunday Paper.  Or not.  Maybe just tennis balls or ping pong balls or something.  I hear scarves are easy, but no one actually has those, do they?  I always thought they were kind of a carnie thing to have.

 

Yah.  Wurd.  So I celebrated Machine Day today by doing roughly 4 hours of manual labor using nothing but the machine God gave me.  I shoveled a lot, and carried big logs and beams and stuff.  And got my shoe stuck in the mud.  That was high quality fun.  And I got free hot dogs, soda, and ice cream from it.  I wish I could do this every weekend.

 

Bold.  Isn't "Bold" just a good word?  I think its a very good word.  I think it sounds bold because it has two voiced stops in it.  Both a bilabial and an alveolar.  What a word.

 

Happy Birthday to:

Johanna Spyri, 1829

Priscilla Lane, 1917

Anne Frank, 1929

The 420th kitten of "Dusty", 1952

Mathieu Schneider, 1969

 

Happy Deathday to:

Philip Livingston, 1778

Isidore Weiss, 1936 (World Checker Champion!)

Walter Leigh, 1942

Nicole Brown Simpson, 1994 (wife of OJ.  well, not anymore.  she was.)

 

And the fun things of today's past:

Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested, 1523

William of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon, 1575

English rename New Amsterdam "New York" after Dutch pull out, 1665

Prussia & Russia sign secret treaty, 1714 (they'll never suspect Russia and Prussia are together...)

Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France, 1885 (He strikes again!)

Single tornado kills 119, injures 146, 1889 (woefully unprepared I would guess.)

Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC, 1923

Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples, 1942

3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz, 1962

Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages, 1967

Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185 feet, 1979

"Raiders Of The Lost Ark" premiers, 1981

 

Word of the Day:
Asperity: rigor, severity; roughness of surface; roughness of sound; roughness of manner or temper

 

Focal An Lae: uasal (OO-uh-suhl)
uasal = noble
Usage:  Uasal is both an adjective and a noun:
     bean uasal (BAN OO-uh-suhl) = a lady (lit., a noble woman)
     An tUasal Seán ó Sé (uhn TOO-uh-suhl SHAWN oh SHAY) = Mr. Seán ó Sé (lit., The Nobleman S. ó S.)
     na huaisle (nuh HOO-ish-luh) = the fairy folk (lit., the nobles)
History:  Old Irish "úasal" can be derived from a reconstructed CommonCeltic *(o)uxs-elo-s. The earliest attested form of this word is theGaulish "uxellos", as in Uxello-dunum (High Fort), a placename whichhas survived as Issoudun, Exoudun, etc. Modern Celtic cognates includeWelsh "uchel" and Breton "uhel", both meaning "high". The Indo-Europeanroot *upo- (over, etc.) is the ultimate source. English cognates include"up" and "above".

 

And on the request of my friend, I am going to put in something about currency.  You've all wondered how much the Turkish Lira is worth right?  I always thought it was less valuable than Yen.
Well, as I found out, 1 US Dollar is worth 1,500,000 Turkish Lira or 110.70 Japanese Yen.  So I was right all these years.  People always make fun of the Yen for being valueless, when really the Turkish Lira is very much un-noticed.  Maybe we should show more consideration for the Lira.  It doesnt have any friends.  Maybe it would feel more confident if we all spread the word about the Lira.  You know, raise awareness.  Just like all those "worthy causes" tell us to do.

 

"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind."

          Marston Bates

"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."

          Ambrose Bierce

"Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination."

          Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes"

"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

          John Benfield

"Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel."

          William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

 

Well, I dont think

i have anything left to say.

Hahaha!  you all thought that I was just going to stop at "I dont think"

Fooled you good!

 

Peace out

-ThE b. hArRiS

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