“It’ll be alright!”
“It’ll be alright!”
This was an old catch phrase I used to reassure people that what appeared to be a big mess was actually not anything to sweat in my book.
It usually worked well!
Month: August 2019
“North to the Future” Alaska’s Motto
“North to the Future”
Where: Alaska
What: state motto
The Palermo Stone
The Palermo stone is the largest known fragment of an ancient Egyptian stele containing the earliest extant historic annals. It was engraved around the 25th century BCE and includes a hieroglyphic listing of the kings of ancient Egypt, the years of their reigns, notations of historic events, and information pertaining to the flooding of the Nile. The stone was so named because it is housed in a museum in Palermo, Italy, but small pieces of it are held in what other cities?
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A flute with no holes, is not a flute
Don’t be obsessed with your desires Danny. The Zen philosopher, Basho, once wrote, ‘A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.’ He was a funny guy. – Ty Webb – Caddyshack (1980)
The juice is worth the squeeze
Adoxography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adoxography is a term coined in the late 19th century, and means “fine writing on a trivial or base subject”. It was a form of rhetorical exercise “in which the legitimate methods of the encomium are applied to persons or objects in themselves obviously unworthy of praise, as being trivial, ugly, useless, ridiculous, dangerous or vicious”
“At some point, we’ve all parked in the wrong garage.”
“At some point, we’ve all parked in the wrong garage.” – Roger Sterling – Mad Men (AMC TV)
Roger was apologizing for making a pass at Betty
quietude
Definition: (noun) A state of peace and quiet.
Synonyms: tranquility, quietness.
Usage: Who can tell how scenes of peace and quietude sink into the minds of pain-worn dwellers in close and noisy places. …read more
“tl;dr”
tl;dr (abbreviation for too long; didn’t read) is an internet slang expression commonly used in discussion forums as a shorthand response to previous posts that are deemed unnecessarily long and extensive.
“Great Caesar’s Ghost!”
“Great Caesar’s Ghost!”
Who: Perry White – Editor-In-Chief of the Daily Planet
Where: Metropolis in the Superman Comics.
Read More: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Great+Caesar%27s+Ghost
WikipediA Article on Perry White: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_White
And further Reading:
http://www.dccomics.com/characters/superman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_%28comic_book%29
Useful idiot – noun
A useful idiot is a derogatory term for a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause without fully comprehending the cause’s goals, and who is cynically used by the cause’s leaders.
The term was originally used during the Cold War to describe non-communists regarded as susceptible to communist propaganda and manipulation. The term has often been attributed to Vladimir Lenin, but this attribution is unsubstantiated.
Read More: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
See also: Useful idiot (disambiguation)
dispositive
dispositive – adjective – legal term
directed toward or effecting a disposition (as of a case) <an endless variety of dispositive…pretrial motions — Robert Shaw-Meadow>
relating to a disposition of property <dispositive words in a will>
read more:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dispositive
Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time
onism n.
the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people’s passwords, each representing one more thing you’ll never get to see before you die—and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here.
“Pareidolia”
Pareidolia (/pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern where none actually exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
This is where you see ‘faces’ in pictures and objects. Eyes, noses and mouth on up to very intricate facial features. 