glowing_dragon: (No Netspeak!)
Cory Phast Lane?!




Rock Ya-Sin?!




O'Terrius Jabari Howard?!

glowing_dragon: (Cherry Cheesecake or Pie)
I showered today, and noticed that I can actually read the names and numbers on my Caller ID for the first time since my eye surgery on the 8th - NICE!


From Nita: Sparky! Your mother and I are SHOCKED at your CURRENT behavior! Until you learn to CONDUCT yourself properly, you're GROUNDED!




From Julie: Since they don't make handbaskets anymore, we'll probably go to Hell in a laptop sleeve or something.




From Bored Panda: Tiit Helimets?!

glowing_dragon: (Bert and Ernie)
Jack Daniels is from Chile?!




Mrs. Weiner and Mrs. Butt taught at the Jewish Community Centre?!




From Grammarly: How To Write Good, by Frank L. Visco!

Caveat emptor. Carpe diem. O si villi, si ergo, fortibus is in ero. Et tu, brute.

My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules:

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8. Contractions aren't necessary.
9. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
10. One should never generalize.
11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
12. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
13. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
14. Profanity sucks.
15. Be more or less specific.
16. Understatement is always best.
17. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
20. The passive voice is to be avoided.
21. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
22. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
23. Who needs rhetorical questions?

glowing_dragon: (LJ Drama)
Robert Berridge added me to Facebook, but that is fine. Hopefully, he is a sane Canucks fan unlike John D., Brandi, and Siobhan! Chrissy also said she was banned by Facebook - YIKES! At least she is back now! Aaron L. and Chris W. also unfriended me from Facebook after more than TEN YEARS - okay, then! Now I can also unfriend Fosa, Chris's wife.


My ex-friend Chris Woodrich:




Transfiguracion Fidelina Lopez Mendoza?!




Batman Roberto Camargo Salcedo?!

glowing_dragon: (DarkEyedWolf... sex!)
I showered and did laundry today.


Julie sent me a picture of my 2019 birthday card in the windowsill display! "I heard that people don't want stuff on their birthday. They want experiences."




From List25: There is ANOTHER Mike Litoris?! Poor kid!




James Bond Cero Cero Siete Carrion Vargas?! James Bond 007, everyone!

glowing_dragon: (French Toast)
It's World Book Day today!


From my ARE YOU SHITTING ME book: Boston Bramlage?! The rest of the family had more normal names: Ronald, Rebecca, Brandon, Beau, and Roxanne...




From Reddit and r/namenerds: A London lawyer is named Friday February Eleven Biddle?!

glowing_dragon: (LJ Drama)
Christmas Day Balam Koyoc?!




Hashtag Follow Contreras Sepulveda?!




Kitty has a Facebook friend named Krystyne Alyse?! Way too much Y in that name... BAD SPELLING!

glowing_dragon: (Vancouver Canucks hockey!)
After COFFEE TIME, I called the eye clinic to say that I'd run out of eyedrops, so asked what to do. End result: I have an appointment next Friday with Dr. Wise (the only day she's in) to check the eye pressure. The Canucks played Chicago at 5:30 today, and lost 4-3 in overtime. I also saw a dead mouse two inches away from a mousetrap! Guess I'm calling Barry tomorrow...


From Wesley and The Bleacher Report on October 5, 2018: LaShawnita Ruffins and Tre'Davious White?! Reminds me of Ruffles chips, hahaha.

glowing_dragon: (Poop)
From Melissa and Buzzfeed Canada: A potty-shaped foam drink holder!




From Youtube: Blanca Arreola Guerrero?! People are going to misread that as BIANCA, and didn't her parents know what an AREOLA is?! Also, LaDonna?! I also always mistype Blanca as Blance!

glowing_dragon: (No Netspeak!)
Time to shut some things down, Jimmy. Not my fault you're having a bad week, and "babe" is supposed to be a GOOD thing!


Hallelujah Lulie?!




From Julie: Lamonte?!




From Julie: Johnetta?!




From Julie: Cawatas?!




From Julie: Jayla?!




From Julie: Jahziya?!




From Julie: Moenae?!

glowing_dragon: (French Toast)
I showered today.


A silver dragon with a skull sword!




From my FAST-ACTING LONG-LASTING Bathroom Reader #18: These twins were named Bernic Lee and Breon Alston-Currie?!

glowing_dragon: (French Toast)
I went out to the nearby medical clinic to get removal for hearing at 1:30 today, and still had to wait almost an hour, getting home at 2:25! At least now I can hear better!


Edit at 6:30 - I used up the last of my milk unwittingly, so I had to go out again at 5:35 on a 407 to London Drugs. I got Silk almond milk and on-sale Pepperidge Farms cookies x2. Strawberry thumbprint cookies and chessmen butter cookies! I got home again at 6 on another 407.


Pepperidge Farms chessmen butter cookies!




Pepperidge Farms strawberry thumbprint cookies!




From Not Always Working: This is a good reason for Canada Post not to deliver your mail: BEAR AT DOOR!




Lucas, Kumatora, and Boney get off the coffee table on the highway in MOTHER 3. They're on their way to rescue Duster and the Mr. Saturn characters in Saturn Valley. Look who it is! "It's me, The Squeekz! That hip chick magnet you met by the pond earlier."




From Julie: Kemp?! Last names as first names strike again!

glowing_dragon: (LJ Drama)
Mom called me at 8 to see if I was feeling better and if I was going tomorrow to Pizzeria Barbarella. Not really, and NO! She mentioned her email that she'd sent earlier in the week. Yeah, but that doesn't mean I have to REPLY... sheesh! Also cancelled on Jon, who says Harma is also coughing a lot. Monday - maybe 5 to 6. Should work!


From Reddit: There's a country musician who is actually named Stonewall Jackson?! SWEET!




From Reddit: Engelbert Humperdinck?! This is badass!




From Reddit on May 25, 2017: "I recently learned that using GIRLFRIENDS to refer to platonic friends is offensive." What?! Are people just LOOKING for things to be offended by these days? It may be confusing, but certainly not OFFENSIVE... *rolleyes*

glowing_dragon: (Default)
From Julie: Meocean is a girl's name?! If you identify as the ocean and you're not a little kid, I've got news for you...




From Buzzfeed: BUTTER SAFE THAN SORRY?!




From Vanessa: "Ling-Ling, why you get B+ at school? You not Bsian, you Asian!"

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