Monday's Missives

• The most benign blog writers and posters get the most vicious comments.
• Someone mentioned checking Wise Counties sex offender database and being relieved they didn't know anyone. Although not buddies or anything- I knew three (just knew who they were etc.)
• I have no idea if they are truly guilty- still shocking.
• Edit: I looked again recently- I know 5 of them. People who again, while not buddies I know them and they know me.
• This blog exercise has become an important way to express myself and see how I think about things. Can't say I don't care whether anyone reads it or not but, it's more important to me to see my thoughts in black and white and be forced to slow down, think and commit the words here.
• If you are involved in an accident there are multiple aspects of your care from how you are transported to the treatment you receive in the E.D. that are solely to prevent a lawsuit (or to be one less factor in same) and have literally nothing to do with medical science or your health and well being. Lawyers are dictating that care and those very expensive treatments.
• This Must Be The Place starring Sean Penn- what I'm watching. He plays a retired rocker married to a firefighter who after finding out his father was tortured by the Nazis travels to America where one of the accused lives.
• I had forgotten how good the music is in Zombieland until I re watched a little of it earlier.
• The last words I spoke, I don't care what anybody says- they were great!
  
  
  

  

  I forget the reason for this monster's mug shot. Cops should have been allowed to arrest him randomly- on principle.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  I present to you the regal and majestic toad.

  
  
• Cool G force training video from Randolph Air Base

Southern Fried Expression

To indicate there may be more than one way of doing something we often hear people say,"Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat." We get the drift of the speaker but, do we ever question the origins of the expression?

Simply put this saying came into being because it's true. House cat skins were often used in the US for drum and banjo heads among other products. This was not out of mere convenience but, it was believed they were superior to other materials for this purpose.

The problem with using Garfield for this purpose? They stink to high heaven when being skinned- more than a skunk some have reported, so everybody that did the deed had a favorite way to mitigate the odor. A favored way in The Appalachias was to submerge the animal in a tub of water while skinning.

Now you know.

Southern Fried Expression

Say you know someone that just wears you smooth out with too much detail in every little story they relate. You can say:

"Don't ever ask that girl what time it is-unless you want to learn how to make a clock."

Or in the company of people familiar with the expression?

When the offender is out of earshot you may ask, "Clockmaker?"

Southern Fried Expression

Say you want to convey how dumb someone is in a memorable way-you could say,"That guy is very unsmart." That would be memorable yes but, not in the way you intended. Here's a better way to express your sentiment:

That guy is so dumb if brains were gasoline, he wouldn't have enough to power an ant go-kart around the inside of a Cheerio Racetrack!

Excuse the quality of illustration-art department off for the weekend. And strange as it may sound, I could find no stock photos of an ant on a go-kart any where on the internets. Very strange,I don't know what this world is coming to.

Southern Fried Expressions

The best Southern Fried Expressions concern bigger than life,unlikely scenarios, to make the best impression. Say you want to convey something that involves a large number of things:

"You can't swing a dead chicken around over your head without hitting a dozen churches in that town!"

To switch it up a bit sustitute a dead cat for the chicken. "Why does it have to be dead you ask?" "Don't be cruel." I respond.