I have some pig-licking good tidbits today... and a whole slew† of pig-licking photos for tomorrow!
[SUMMARY: You are so excited!]
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I heard a stoopid classic on the radio yesterday:
The news break on The Ride Home‡ included a story about how an advocacy group is calling the US Mint discriminatory against blind people because all US paper currency is the same size.
There was a sound bite from a spokesperson explaining that the US is the only country with prejudiced paper money.
Then the news caster said,§ "Proposed changes include making bills differents sizes and different colours."
[SUMMARY: Revel in the bad joke.%]
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Patrick Carroll's, current home turf of Drunken Knitting, is under new management.
Cute Christopher left at the end of April to assist with the opening of a bar for which he'll be general manager and part owner, leaving Shylin in charge of the PC.
Shy sat down with me for a moment last night and told me she's thinking of making Tuesday Ladies Night.
I suddenly feel very powerful.
[SUMMARY: Continuing delusions of grandeur.]
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When I was just a little girl, my mother caught me talking to myself¶ in the corner of our empty dining room# one day.
"What's your name, little girl?"
"Marin."
"Marion?"
"No. Marin."
"Marilyn?"
"No. Marin.
"Mary Ann?"
"No. Marin. Rhymes with Sharon and Karen."
"Oh... Marin! That's a pretty name."
"Thank you."††
I still go through a small version of this now and then, but the current version is people who pronounce it Mahrin‡‡ even though they've never seen it in print.
Think about it: if you meet me, and our mutual friend Sue introduces us...
"Dave, have you met Marin? Marin this is Dave."
And then you never got an email or a letter or saw me on the wall in the post office or anything and suddenly started calling me Mahrin... why? Why make the giant leap from the phonetics you know to the wild and unexplored land of potential spellings and BACK to a mispronunciation?
[SUMMARY: Dave's birthday party was hard on me for more than just flirtopause.§§]
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Thanks to Mary Kay, I am now aware of a Canadian game show¶¶ for kids called "Don't Lick the Pig."
[SUMMARY: There is nothing new in the world.]
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[SUMMARY: I'm clearly out of content here.]
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I'm out. Happy Wednesday, ev'rybahdy!
†FOOTNOTE (crossed): Slough?
‡FOOTNOTE (double-crossed): With Dave and Lois.
§FOOTNOTE (swerved): I am not making this up.
%FOOTNOTE (percented): If I may be the voice of reason here (shut up), all stupidity around the colour issue aside, how long would it take to get all the current homogenously-sized currency out of circulation? I'm not unsympathetic, but blind people have been coping with this one way or another for ages and there is just no practical solution on a US Mint kind of level. Think of how much it would cost us taxpayers to put such a measure in place... only to have it largely useless until all the old currency is gone.
¶FOOTNOTE (paragraphed): Two thoughts: If it had been twenty years later and if my mother had been so inclined as to keep up with horror movie trends, she might have had some concerns of a sort of Damien/Poltergeist/Village vibe with a tiny blonde child talking to the corner of a room. Second: You may draw your own conclusions from the fact that Mom wasn't actually worried about me talking to myself, just curious what I might be saying.
#FOOTNOTE (pounded): Until about 2000, we never had anything in our dining rooms except the piano. We ate in the kitchen. In 2000-ish, Mom found a table on sale at American Furniture Warehouse that she simply couldn't pass up, so the dining room got a horizontal surface on which to store books and clothes and stuff.
††FOOTNOTE (ddouble-ccrossed): Note how polite.
‡‡FOOTNOTE (doubble-crossssed): As in "mar." As in "scar for life."
§§FOOTNOTE (I am SO confused): Yes, Ange, that is a white girl problem.
¶¶FOOTNOTE (two mints in one!): Allie, I'm disappointed. As my number one Canadian, I count on you to educate me about these thing.
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