1. If you ever give birth to a daughter and decide that you hate her, you should name her "Mabel." Now, I realize that I will probably get angry comments chiding that you have a daughter/mother/grandmother/pet goat/whatever named Mabel and I am being rude and insensitive by pondering this passing point. Let me nip it in the bud right now and say this: Yes, I'm rude and insensitive. It's part of my charm. Moving on...
2. The first concert my darling, sheltered husband ever attended was the Indigo Girls. (Someone bought us tickets.) Let's just say, it was a very eye-opening experience for him.
3. Fact checker: What is the origin of the phrase "What in the sam hill..." I've always wondered.
4. Let us take a trip to the online slang dictionary, shall we? It's always SO informative! The slang word (well, it's more like 4 words) of the day is: green apple quick step n 1. diarrhea. 2. the act of racing to a bathroom while not soiling oneself. ("That poor guy just ate ten Hershey bars, and now he's doing the green apple quick-step.") -v 1. to have diarrhea. Submitted by Thomas Ryan, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 24-09-1997. diarrhea
Okay, a little crude, perhaps, but it reminds me of a funny story about a friend's (you know who you are) dad and white polyester pants...heh heh heh....
Okay, a little crude, perhaps, but it reminds me of a funny story about a friend's (you know who you are) dad and white polyester pants...heh heh heh....
5. I don't think I'll ever get tired of Little House on the Prairie.
6. I really like v-neck shirts but can never find one that fits right--what an inconvenience.
7. If you've never seen the movie "High Strung" I highly recommend it. It was one of Jim Carrey's first (and best) movies.
8. Let's talk about being fake for a second. Personally, I don't have the energy. This doesn't mean I go around being mean to people I don't like, I just don't go out of my way to talk to them. It's so much easier for me to be the kind of fern that lets you know where you stand with me. If I talk to you, joke with you, we're friends. If every time you approach me, I don't make eye contact and make a lame excuse like, "I have to go move my car" you'll know we're not besties. For some reason, probably because I'm such a snob and God is punishing me, ferns seem to think I'm their best friend in the entire world when I'm not. It's so exhausting.
9. I'm going to Hell, aren't I?
10. I want to live on a cute tree-lined street where we sit outside on our front porch and talk to neighbors while our kids play in the yard. Sadly, we don't have a porch and I think we are the only English speakers on the street. Wait, no, the Shaws WAY down the road. But they're like 90 and it'd be hard to stand on our non-existent porch and shout to them. Everyone in between would hear everything. "YEAH, SCOTT'S HAD A PRETTY BAD CASE OF THE STOMACH FLU--HE'S BEEN DOING THE GREEN APPLE QUICK STEP ALL WEEKEND!!!" Then, of course, they wouldn't be able to hear since they're 90 so I'd need a megaphone and it'd just be a whole situation...
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Point 3
There is a story sometimes told (for example in Edwin Mitchell’s Encyclopedia of American Politics in 1946) that one Colonel Samuel Hill of Guilford, Connecticut, would often run for political office at some point in the early nineteenth century but always without success. Hence, “to run like Sam Hill” or “go like Sam Hill”. The problem is that nobody has found any trace of this monumentally unsuccessful candidate.
On the other hand, an article in the New England Magazine in December 1889 entitled Two Centuries and a Half in Guilford Connecticut mentioned that, “Between 1727 and 1752 Mr. Sam. Hill represented Guilford in forty-three out of forty-nine sessions of the Legislature, and when he was gathered to his fathers, his son Nathaniel reigned in his stead” and a footnote queried whether this might be the source of the “popular Connecticut adjuration to ‘Give ‘em Sam Hill’?” So the tale has long legs.
The expression has been known since the late 1830s. Despite the story, it seems to be no more than a personalised euphemism for “hell”.
From your friendly neighborhood fact checker.
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