HT: The WØRD
And, and, and let me add, Stephen Colbert was on Fresh Air with Terry Gross today. You can hear that interview here. Or, rather, there. And on Sunday, the 23rd, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest of All will air at 10 p.m. on the Comedy Channel.
I was playing Monopoly Junior with my son Will the other day and trying to teach him how to roll the die. He would vigorously shake his hand with the die clutched in it and then place the die on the game board. Usually on the number of his choice, as it happens.
"Will," I said, the fifth time in, "That's not how you roll."
"That's how I roll," he said.
*rimshot*
Your result for The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test...
You scored 3% Cardinal, 74% Monk, 53% Lady, and 43% Knight!
You scored high as both the Lady and the Monk. You can try again to get a more precise description of either the Monk or the lady, or you can be happy that you're an individual.
Take The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test at HelloQuizzy
HT: Happy Catholic
The yellow-haired child has been carrying around a plastic silver-colored earring that she can slide on or off - I'm not sure earring was the pea-sized circle's primary purpose in its creation, but it's what it's used for. Of course, I rarely see it on her ears. It's usually on her nostril or her lip.
Yesterday she had it on her lower lip most of the day, and after Laura got home from work I switched it up to her nostril (I'm really no help in raising proper children). Sophie walked by and, upon seeing it, dismissed it saying, "It'd sure be hard to pick your nose."
Anna came home from school today and asked me, "Is darn a bad word, Daddy?" She had heard the word on TV. How do you explain euphemisms to a six year old? But I figured Anna had as good a chance as anyone at wrapping her mind around the concept. So I began to explain to her what euphemisms were, why they were used, and how people felt about them. I told her that many words depended on how they were said rather than that they were said. I also said that around some people, and in some situations, even euphemisms were bad manners and considered bad words. I said that it would probably be best for her to try not to use them now, but that I was sure she probably would as she got older and that that was OK with me.
Now for Anna, writing and drawing helps her understand concepts that are new to her or that she's been thinking about. I presume this to be true because she does so much of it and because I'm wired the same way. And so at supper, my wife and I were not surprised to find that Anna had written a list of euphemisms on the white board we use for homeschooling.
And we laughed and laughed and laughed. We even verbally added a few of our own "euphemisms" that I can't post on the blog.
Here's what she wrote:
While working on an article about stability and our local churches, I remembered this video. It's hilarious. It says everything I wanted to say in my article, only better. Enjoy.
There is a funny article by Don Miller over at "The Burnside Writers Collection" titled, "Tolkien Was No Hobbit." I understand that some of you have a problem with James Frey, so don't get too upset by this article - just enjoy the tongue-in-cheekness of it. Here's an excerpt:
The truth is I wasn’t surprised by the whole Frey incident. As a book insider, I’ve known for a few years that the stuff in books is made up. I’m not trying to sound condescending, which means to talk down to you, but it’s something I discovered in my mid twenties.
I remember how much I loved J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” for example, but was enraged when I finally saw a picture of the author, smoking a pipe wearing a hat and jacket, no floppy ears, no webbed and hairy feet, a complete con. Lying bastard, I said to myself, throwing the book across the children’s section of a bookstore. Hobbit my ass.
Now go read the rest of it. Go on. Read it. One . . . Two . . .
BAGHDAD, Iraq, February 14 - Millions protest as Judge Raouf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman acquits Saddam Hussein from all criminal charges and sends him on a week-long quail hunt with the vice president of the United States.
