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audiobooks ruin lives, definitions of words, First World War, illiteracy is not funny!, misused words, nerds, Why am I so nerdy?, WWI
By Tardsie
And Another Thing: You Know The Word ‘Peruse’ Means To Read THOROUGHLY, And Not Just To Skim, Right? No, You Didn’t.
Man, it really chaps my hide when I’m reading¹ a historical work and the author makes an ambiguous statement like “Many historians agree that the underlying causes of the First World War were rooted…”
It’s like, geez, aren’t you the historian? Take a stand on this one, dude!
I Have Never Pretended To Be Anything But What I Am.
Promethean Times 
Does Elvis narrate your audiobooks?
Elvis informs just about everything I do, actually.
I thought so. Just don’t follow his diet advice.
Well thanks for telling me now!
Hahaha. You’re welcome.
The woman in that Who Wants to Be a Millionaire photo makes me roll my eyes and weep for humanity.
It certainly does. The gene pool has needed some more chlorine for a very long time.
Hey Weebs! Yeah, I don’t know the backstory behind that photo, and I know that images can sometimes be deceiving, but this looks pretty wretched.
George Carlin had a great joke circa 1991, which goes something to the effect of “Think about how stupid the average person is. Then realize that half the world is even stupider than that guy!”
It was funnier when he said it, but the sad truth remains either way.
Perhaps the question should read:
Which of the following is the largest?
A- A peanut
B- An elephant
C- Elvis
D- A kettle
Damn, she still would have gotten it wrong….
hahahaha
Well, to be fair, that’s a trick question. I think any reasonable person could eliminate A & D without much difficulty. However, the ambiguity is that we’re not given enough information on the Elvis we’re supposed to be using. It could be argued that, in his later years, the King was at least as big as an elephant.
Intelligence is a constant, the population is growing. I have to say though, the concept of a peanut butter and banana sandwich is intriguing. Not slimming, but intriguing nonetheless.
I used to eat those all the time as a kid. We feed ’em to our own kids. They’re not slimming, but we use good peanut butter (the kind you have to stir) and sometimes almond butter, so I think it’s pretty nutritious. And we use gluten-free bread. Don’t ask.
A buddy of mine got me the Elvis cookbook many years ago, and one of the recipes in there that I love (but which is by no means good for me) is fried pickles. So good.
I have that DEVO hat – but not that Elvis
That’s real airbrushed velvet from TJ you know.
Keep it close to your heart.
Sage advice, indeed. And you can rest assured that I do. It was given to me many moons ago by a dear friend, and it is enshrined in my office, along with several other equally-priceless (I’m not going to spend time trying to figure out if that’s an oxymoron) objet d’ art, some of which are pictured in the photo.
I have a DEVO mirror that is in my office that I’m rather fond of – found in a thrift store and bought for me by my co-worker 🙂
The awesomeness of that is such that I’m prompted to trot out an adjective I don’t normally use, but which seems wholly appropriate in this instance:
That is wicked cool!
I know! I know! Thank you for reserving the word for the truly proper circumstances.
I hope your hide is recovering.
I appreciate your concern! Sadly, while my actual epidermis remains flawlessly supple, this is a wound to my soul. That’s the worst kind of hurt there is, except maybe for when you hit something with your toe just right.
An elephant? Is that for real? Significant proof in favor of eugenics/euthanization.
Yeah, you’ve just gotta hope that the photo is–somehow!–taken out of context.
Elvis…or Morgan Freeman.
Is that an Easy Reader reference, by any chance?
Merely a reference to the fact that MF narrates, like, everything. lol
Oh, I thought you were referencing the picture of Elvis. Ha.
I get irritated at celebrity narrators. It’s not jealousy, it’s that they aren’t suited to narration work, and frankly, aren’t very good. My beef with Morgan Freeman is that I don’t have the “not very good” excuse to fall back on, and I’m forced to face my own jealousy, and I hate that. I’m a lot fonder of pointing out hypocrisy in other people.
I think there’s such a thing as “over-exposure…” and I don’t mean what you got arrested for last week. 😉
I picked up a couple exposure raps last week, so you’ll have to be more specific.
Dammit, Smak…I thought we were past this…
Homage to Devo—excellent. A most under-appreciated and un-understood band. Misunderstood doesn’t cover it, so I must go with a grammatical aberration.
Wow. You appreciate DEVO AND your state just okayed medical marijuana…you get cooler by the second!
Well, in her defense, I think this was a trick question. Did they mean a new moon, a full moon, or Keith Moon? You see, that would have made all the difference. So it wasn’t really her fault at all.
Yep; got me..! 😉
Who knew to peruse meant to ‘thoroughly’ read… Not me, Smak.. 😉
Four autopsyists agree that Elvis had a megacolon. That’s why he died on the toilet; we were told only he OD’d in the bathroom so as not to besmirch his memory (because if you have to choose between overdosing and literally busting a gut…). Nothing really to do with your post, just thought you’d like to know.
I actually had to look up megacolon (I thought you were being facetious at first). Talk about a hunk a hunk o’ burnin’ love.