Monthly Archives: January 2013

J’s Joke of the Day

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the_hatA married couple heard a ruckus outside their home, so they stepped out onto the porch to find a parade in progress, coming around the main corner of their town and stretching all the way down the street.

A float with an enormous “U” made of flowers was driving away, in front of them was a giant “V” float, and just turning into the intersection was another float with a huge “W” on it. As they watched, yet another float appeared around the corner, bearing a big, flowery “X.”

The man turned to his wife. “Do you know the reason this parade’s going on?”

“No,” she said, “But I’m sure we’ll see Y in a moment.”

Category: Odd Thoughts

Odd Thought on Sea Life

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OddThoughts“Click-clack, glubble glub, clickiticlack-click clack! Blub glubble clack click.”

– St. Paul’s Epistle to the Parathranites

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Look it up.

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Archaic Definition of the Week – House Dick

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ADOTWhouse dick: a hotel detective

The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition Through World War II by Marc McCutcheon, Section Five, “Crime”

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Archaic Definition of the Week – Effluxes

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ADOTWeffluxes (or effluences), theory of _ Philosophy Theory associated with Greek atomism and its revival in the corpuscularian philosophy of the 17th century as well as by non-atomists like Empedocles (5th century BC).

It holds that objects continually emit films from their surfaces, which cause them to be perceived, much as we ourselves might explain smell. Lucretius (1st century BC) also uses the theory to explain dreams and imagination, and thought in general.

Dictionary of Theories by Jennifer Bothamley

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Odd Thought on Second Careers

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OddThoughts“Excel to yo’ mother!”

-when Vanilla Ice became an accountant

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Why Spelling Matters

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Hippocracy

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Odd Thought on Soul Math

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OddThoughtsThe Inverse Bill Withers: when 26 people know something once each.

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Archaic Definition of the Week – Secular Inequality

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ADOTWINEQUALITY, SECULAR. _ A small irregularity in the motion of planets, which becomes important only after a long lapse of years. The great inequality of Jupiter and Saturn is a variation of their orbital positions, caused by the disturbing action of one planet on the other.

The Sailor’s Word Book (1867) by Admiral W. H. Smyth

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Odd Thought on Androids

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OddThoughtsYou didn’t have to shut me off
Wipe my primary core memory and change my number
Did I really compute so slow?
Now I’m just somebody that I used to know…

-If Gotye were a robot

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