I thought it was a great way to open the long DORMANT FFOTD, especially one written by our in-house nut, and many time nation spelling bee winner, me. Speaking of the word DORMANT, that's what the FFOTDs are, not dead, Charlie. In some ways, the FFOTDs will never die. Remember that, even I seem to have radically changed the meaning of the word Day, the Fun Fact is still alive.
Give me ambiguity or give me something else, that's my new motto.
Check this out-Tiebreaker question on Idiots Savants(It's on MTV at 7:30, moron. Watch it.)- If Pamela Anderson Lee gave birth to a group of twelve sheep, what would this group be called. (now, you do know that these are people in their twenties, and they are all relatively intelligent people)
Person One- Sheeps?
Person Two- Calves?
I rather burst out laughing. By the way, the answer is flock. In case you were wondering. I know you were. Don't lie to me.
This FFOTD has been in the works for a long time. In fact, as I write this, it has been on going for at least two weeks. An interesting sidenote. As I type THIS it is 7:50 on Thursday the 27 of Febuary, I have an immense Greek Mythology notebook due tomorrow. This is interesting because I do need to concentrate on it, and what am I doing? Watching Idiots Savants, and getting flashes of FFOTD inspiration. I concentrates really well.
It's Saturday now. Did you know- Americans used credit cares to charge more than 1,000,000,000,000. That is not a typo. That is over a trillion dollars. Just thought you might me interested.
It would rule to be Webster. Ya know that? Think about it.
A) Never, ever lose at Scrabble. You put "QUXIZZMS" on triple word score, and say "Oh, it's a new word for people that look shorter than they are, it'll be in the next edition.
B) Any other argument like that, it's just, "It'll be in the next edition".
Well, I think that that would rule, who cares about you. This Webster thing was going to be a whole long joke, but it kinda pooped out.
We had a free Algebra Class on Friday. (This was because it was the last day of February, and February is my Algebra teacher's favorite month. She's weird.) It was fun. I personally wanted to play Heads Up-Seven Up, but not enough people wanted to play. Then some people started playing Pictionary. I "helped" by giving both teams ideas to make the other team guess and draw. Some of my better ones- "Potassium" (they didn't get it) and "red" (they didn't get it). Just thought I'd share.
I'm sorry if this seems a little odd. I'll try to make it more odd as we move along.
Ya want to hear a good movie idea? Matt was telling me about this a while ago. Of course Matt, he still wonders how they fit so much wisdom into such a small cookie. Anyway, Matt stars as the hero who beats up the bad guys while discoing. I can see it now. It might even be bigger than "The Next Karate Kid"
Does anyone remember Opposite Day from elementary school? That was a fun game to play, just pretty dumb, especially since it was impossible to tell is it was in fact, Opposite Day. Really, think about it. If it was, and someone asked you, you'd have to say "No", meaning "Yes". It is wasn't, and someone asked you, you'd have to say "No", meaning "No". I can actually remember trying to set rules to the effect that "It's not oppposite when you're talking about whether or not it's Opposite Day." I am a weird kid. Was. Will be. Had been. Have been. Shall have been. One of them. Know any other tenses? Tell me.
On this day (March 9th)
- 1855: Congress authorized registered mail and approved an
appropriation of $30,000 to be placed at the disposal of the
Secretary of War for importing camels to be tested for military
purposes.
I thought that was interesting, as most things that involve camels are.
Alright, I'm watching some dumb TV show now, (It's Monday Night). First, there are several people on a plane, which appears to be over Washington D.C. They are all fighting, and one of them apperars to have some sort of bomb or biological weapon or something. That guy manages to get free, grab the only parachute available, arm said weapon, and jump out of the plane. One of the other people, a good guy, needs to go after him. As he heads toward the opening to jump, the heroine yells, "You don't have a chute!" (What can I say? Humans always state the obvious. I've covered that already.) The guy was like, "No time!" (Understandable, this other guy was about to seriously fubar D.C.) So, about to jump out of a plane with no chute, what does this guy do? Look for a parachute? No. The man grabbed a pair of goggles, yes goggles, and jumped. Later, when a commercial came on, I figured this whole thing out. It was, what else, on ABC.
Oh, this really good. My So Called Life. Twas a good show. Tis getting old. I'm overdosing on the word "Like." Help me. Please. This is an episode where Angela and Jordan "hang out" in the boiler room (ohmygod) while they ought to be in school. I quote "We, like, didn't even talk much so when we did talk it was, like, really meaingful. "Is that your stomach or mine." End quote. I cannot figure out why they took that off the air. Can you?
This may be one of the LEAST linear FFOTDs. Really, I mean try to find a theme to it. I dare you. Oh, never mind, It's about me watching TV. That's always good. I see.
These are really yummy. I have some of those Andes Mints. I love em. That was going somewhere. If I remember later, I'll come back.
Doh, I have homework. Lemme see. Do homework, improve grades, go to good school, get good job, live successful life, etc, etc. OR Write this, get nothing, have fun.
Has anyone else noticed the comedic talent of Bob Dole? I thunk not. First, the way he lost the Presidential race, that was classic. Then the Visa commercial. It's like "Hi Bob, Hi Bob, Hi Bob, Sure Bob I'm just gonna need to see some ID." Then Bob says, "I just can't win!" After that, just last week, I saw him in a commercial for Suddenly Susan. He was standing there with Brooke Shields, and at the end, they were both leaving and he said, "C'mon, I'll show you how to fal off a stage." I fell off my chair. That's just me.
Hm, that was fun. All this morning at school, none of the bells were going off. Principal came on and was like "As you musy have noticed, none of the bells have been going off. We are working frantically to fix this problem." Just a bit later he came back on and said "My secretaries have informed me that the bell system works much better when it is turned on." This is the man that is in charge of, oh, about 2000 plus young minds. I have nothing more to say on that.
Later in the day I had Biology. We have a student teacher Mr. Ferguson. I personally think he's pretty cool. We were asking him to let us use our notes on this test we're gonna have. He said, "If you're good, nah, I tell ya what. Next time that guy comes in and observes me, I want all of you to be real interested and like, raise your hands. Raise your right hand if you know the answer and your left hand if you don't." Now, this is me again. I've noticed how many teacher types are such phonys. Just kinda going throught the motions. Not this guy, obviously. Anyway we are studying viruses and he was like, "I love this virus!!! It's called Kuru. It, like, dissolves your brain!!!" If you were there, you would see what I mean. It was cool.
This sorta coulda, prolly shoulda ended eons ago, but I'm sure the world will do dumb stuff I have to write about tomorrow as well, so...
Eh, what the heck, I'll just send it.
Ainderby Steeple (AYN-der-bee-STEE-pul) n.
The length of time it takes to get served in a camera shop. Hence, also, how long we will have to wait for the abolition of income tax or the Second Coming.
That's all from the Dillster,
And in everything you do, may the forks be with you.
