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This is the wackiest receipt I’ve ever gotten from a Bojangles’. First, it came from the “DT PRINTER PRINTER.” The name of the “server” was certainly unique — “Firandy.” Then there is the mysterious message: “PEACE AND LOVE FROM Z CHOPSTICKS 8-5-06 – 10-12-07.”
This may be a boring topic, but house numbers or street addresses are important to the real estate we own, the mail we send, and the pizza we have delivered. We might prefer our own house number to be short and memorable. They are commonplace, everyday things, but there is often mystery in their assignment. The most familiar scheme for assigning is the system of block numbering, and another scheme uses distance, but the details vary. Why do numbers in Athens start at 100 but numbers in Oconee County start at 1000? Why do neighborhoods in Macon have four-digit addresses that all start with the same digit? For instance, in Sherwood Forest, where my grandparents lived, all the addresses start with a 2 followed by three more digits assigned in block style. What does the 2 mean?
These numbers communicate information, but it isn’t always clear what some of the information might be.
Allegedly the caffeine in 57.39 cans of Jolt Cola could kill me.
“How much of your favorite energy drink or soda would it take to kill you?”
I have mixed feelings about finding myself saluted by Bud Light. Have you heard their “Real Men of Genius” commercials on the radio? They make fun of someone who does something silly or has a weird job. One day you hear “Today we salute you, Mr. Basketball Shoe Designer” and another you hear about “Mr. Stadium Scoreboard Marriage Proposal Guy.” Well, I finally heard, “Today we salute you, Mr. Cell Phone Holster Wearer… Even though cell phones are small enough to fit in your pocket, you still wear yours on your belt, telling everyone, ‘I have a cell phone.'” I have occasionally wondered if I should be that guy, and now I know I should be ashamed.
You can hear some of the commercials on the Bud Light website.
I’m still waiting to learn what this means; a technical philosophical term. “..there is no satisfactory justification for supposing that the factual is, by definition, attitudinatively and motivationally neutral.” John McDowell, “Values and Secondary Qualities,” 1985.
Driving dangerously fast. “The boys who go barrel-assing down my dirt road have a big white decal they blazon on their windshields that says NO FEAR.” Garrett Keizer, Harper’s, 2003.
One who focuses on neutral colors and Safari themes in interior design. Reported to me by a friend.
The dampness or smell of a cellar. Coined by James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916.
To organize ideas and make information clear. Merriam-Webster OnLine notes its first use in 1884.
A state of having been frozen; cold. A friend spontaneously coined this and Google can find several occurrences on the Web.
The region of a state in the U.S. outside of the state’s largest metroplitan area. The implication is that the residents of the largest metro area see themselves as the center of the state and need a term to describe the rest, such as “outstate Minnesota.” Perhaps this is more accurate than confusing terms such as “upstate New York,” where it sounds like it may refer to northern regions but often refers to the whole area outside of New York City, and “south Georgia,” that sounds like it may refer to the southern half of the state but is often used to describe any place south of Atlanta, including Macon, which is north of the geographic center.
A publicly owned right-of-way that has not been improved for access. Paper is often enclosed in quotation marks.
Not able to realize; fictional.
I have spread
my dreams under
your feet
tread sorftly
because you
on my dreams
It seems like back in middle school we were pencil technicians. I was geeky, so my friends and I used mechanical pencils. We could basically field strip them and did so often when we were bored. I knew about different lead sizes (0.5, 0.7, 1.0 mm) and different models from popular brands. When shopping for school supplies I had to match up the right eraser refills, the right lead, etc. At three or four dollars each, a pencil seemed like an investment, so you just didn’t “borrow” my pencil. I had loaner pencils on hand.
The Pentel Quicker Clicker was the workhorse. It was durable enough to be useful and complicated enough to keep me entertained during boring classes. It had an eraser seated in a metal clamp and a cap over the eraser, so there were all kinds of pieces to take apart. I think I remember a sort of needle in the bottom of the eraser for cleaning out lead, but I’m not sure.
A school supply tinkerer in probably fifth grade developed an entertaining activity with a normal wooden pencil. He discovered that you can take the end of a notebook spiral, bend it in parts so you had something like a hand-operated drill, and literally drill a hole through the pencil with the blunt broken end of the wire.
Words that are interesting for various and sundry reasons