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The Fun Guy (21791)
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Fungus: Glomus intraradices
Number: 198
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Element: Yttrium
Radioisotope: Cesium 137
Chemist: Benjamin Thompson Count Rumford
Knots: taut-line hitch & better bow
Beverage: Coffee
I once hit the cycle for interviews for all four US network in one very, very busy week. I was interviewed live on the BBC that same week. I've also been on Car Talk.
I went on a diet and lost 17% of my body mass. Then I gained some of it back, so now I'm trying to lose it again. I think it would have been simpler to just keep it all off in the first place.
Journal of The Fun Guy (21791)
189.2 Too long, too boring
My JEs - too long, too boring, subject line not interesting(1). Complete sentences? Correct grammar & punctuation & capitalization? In paragraph form? Ugh! Too long! Read past 5th line? WaP! Forget it! Skip the blog, go back to cuniform and clay tablets!(2)
Item: my fiction writing sucks, huh? Well, wrote own nomination for Supervisor of the Year. And got it! My non-fiction writing ROCKS! TFG FTW!(3)
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(1) It would appear that readers of blog entries have the attention span of mayflies on crack. If the subject line is not interesting and provocative, the entry gets skipped. There are, after all, a great many blog entries to read in the course of a day. Time is money. Or rather, it would be if there were some mechanism for being paid to read blog entries.
(2) Actually, I don't expect that anyone who regularly reads blogs would ever make a reference to War and Peace, or to cuniform and clay tablets. The first they would probably assume has something to do with the structural anatomy of the labia majora, while the second might perhaps be taken as having to do with easy-to-swallow diarrhea medicines. However, I wouldn't expect them to use footnotes in a blog entry, either, so this is all pretty unrelated to reality.
(3) The act of writing these five lines was rather painful for me, especially the sentence fragment that started with the word "And". shudder
Fixed that for ya... (Score:2)
And on a side note, are you sure it was non-fiction? ;-) Congrats!
Re: (Score:2)
It was artfully written, but factually correct in every particular.
I think what turned the trick was invoking the image of grandmothers and toddlers, dying on television before the eyes of a stunned nation, while a desperate and terrified industry pleads for some miracle of science to come and save them from the plague. Who rides to the rescue? Why, yours truly, cresting the ridge in a shaft of sunlight through the storm, teeth bared and saber drawn, spurring his powerful steed into the fray and