...It's time once again for those one liner sorts of things that litter my brain until I can't stand it anymore, yet there's just not enough there to write about them...

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Bad news always makes much better headlines than good news or great news, when you're talking about a publicly traded company. Especially when it's a company that's done good or great quarter over quarter. Then you have one stumble or one lawsuit and everyone thinks it's the end of the company until someone else makes a bigger blunder.

Just something to keep in mind when you read about your favorite company (or favorite target, depending on your point of view)

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Have you ever noticed that smart people tend to know that they're smart, but stupid people don't really recognize that they're stupid?

Could that be, perhaps, because they're too stupid to notice?

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I commented to DH the other day that I didn't know what to think about seeing a car with a "Clergy On Call" placard in the back window turning into the Krispy Kreme drive through.

His response?

"Jesus Forgives!"

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You know those commercials, especially for cars, that involve someone hiding the cost of the car or lease from thier friends, and then the announcer tells you what the cost of the car/lease is just after the acted out interaction between friends?

What's the point? They tell you that the only thing you'll hide is the low cost, but then they tell you what it is... makes no sense since everyone else who listens to the radio or television knows the cost too.

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Have you ever considered, when posting on a message board for the first time after a long absence, that when someone says "I was wondering where you've been" they might not be saying that in the I-missed-you-sort-of-wondering, but instead the I-wondered-where-you-were-because-you're-not-annoying us sort of wondering.

Now I'll bet everyone questions the "I was wondering where you've been" statements for the next couple of weeks...

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I was sitting in a 50 cent show (no, not the rapper, but a 50 cent movie admission) and they were showing the placard advertisements on screen for refreshments in the lobby. One of them said that there was a hot dog looking for a home, and plenty more up for adoption in the lobby.

Adoption is sort of permanent. Food, if you want to give it a human quality, gets rented, abused by the body, stripped of it's good stuff (if any), and then evicted.

Definitely not adoption there...

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Why is it that people think they're cute when they intersperse sentences with phrases from another language? Especially when they're not even using the phrase in correct context - mostly because it's being used with an english translation that creates a horrid juxtaposition of the two.

It's not cute. It's not remotely appropriate to those who actually *do* speak the language. It makes one look like a pompous ass.

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...and that's what happens when you sometimes let my brain wander free. Have a wonderful day!