Inbox!
I've had fun things in my inbox all day.
First? Word of the day from Miriam Webster:
"John Barleycorn \JAHN-BAR-lee-korn\ noun : alcoholic liquor personified
Example sentence: "Eureka was, after all, the last home of Carry Nation, that ax-wielding foe of John Barleycorn, Demon Rum and all their evil ilk." (Charles Allbright,_Arkansas Democrat-Gazette_, November 19, 2003)"
John Barleycorn! Ax-wielding foes! Demon Rum! Evil ilk! All in my inbox by 7:15am. What more can you ask for?
Then, Daphne came into my office with a fortune she got the night before that made no sense. We discussed, we Googled, and then after figuring out nothing, I told her to email it to me so I could blog it. And she did, here it be:
"Now is the time to make circles with mints, do not haste any longer."
Isn't that the best fortune you've ever read? Now is the time to make circles with mints! Bury your goats with your own hands!
Is there no END to the wisdom on this blog???
Then after lunch, I saw I had a new email from Dana's 10-year-old son (who is so funny, and awesomely cool cause he let me borrow his PS2). It read:
"I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul."
And just how often do you get a random email with a quote from Billy Madison and nothing else?
Never! Never ever, I bet!
That's why I love my life. The little things.
~
posted by Cookie @ Friday, April 20, 2007
2 Comments:
I googled "circles with mints" just to see what came up. No explanations, but apparently lots of people have gotten that fortune. In the process, I ran across this post on thisisbroken.com:
"In the late 1970s, a raft of fortune cookies in Cambridge MA restaurants were printed with the first line from fortune A and the second line from fortune B. This resulted in gems such as:
Serve for honor, not for honor.
You enjoy having your own way, and are, on occasion.
And my favorite:
Your superior powers of comprehension will surely"
Those cracked me up. Especially the last one. I read it once and I snickered. Then I read it again and thought about it and I just started giggling and I've been giggling for 15 minutes now.
I want to get interesting things in my inbox...all I ever get are real conversations. Though Zach did send me the 'Stupid competition' forward about all the criminals & such. Does that count?
See, Cookie, you really do know the most interesting people.
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