- Nicholas Cage stars in precisely nine mediocre movies each year.
- Your favorite beverage tastes better when consumed through a silly straw.
- Banana Peels kill.
- Punxsutawney Phil shall never perish.
- Childhood is incomplete without making at least one home-made volcano. (using vinegar and baking soda)
- Marsupials > Insects
- Nobody can spell onomatopoeia correctly.
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Flyingllamafish
Who or what in the world is Punxutawney Phil?
Yes, and I too made a stupid home-made volcano! ( ninth grade science class) I think I got a C- probably not having enough vinegar or baking soda- aka DUD!
Funny, funny entry-This blog actually made me look up the word onomatopoeia-and I am proud to now have this word as part of my vocabulary! – Not really sure when I can actually throw this out there – into a sentence, without someone responding with a totally bewildered and blank stare- but I’m going to give it a shot!.
Hi FlyingLlamaFish,
I have to ask, what do these words mean-onomatopoeia, punxutawney or marsupials? Care to share?
I may not be able to spell the word that means a word that sounds like the thing it’s describing but I sure as heck know who Punxsutawney Phil is. Sheesh, thought he was as famous as Bill Murray. As for Nicolas Cage starring in nine mediocre movies a year, I think you’re been rather generous with the use of the word mediocre
Man, I wish I could go back and have a decent childhood. Pout. I never got to make a volcano.
The silly straw fact is so true and I, like writer dad, have an incomplete childhood since I never made a volcano. It’s never too late to make one though
Hahahahaha…I love to laugh…Great post! There is no medical name for boogers. That is my factual contribution of the day. =P
“Nicholas Cage stars in precisely nine mediocre movies each year.” Really? I knew that I didn’t think very highly of him. His name does equal meritocracy in my mind. Now I know why!
Maybe my childhood wasn’t complete either – I never made the volcano. But…I have made it with my kids – loads of fun!! And now they can say their childhood is complete!
Patti, Punxutawney Phil is the name of the Groundhog that predicts the weather each Groundhog Day. Onomatopoeia is quite the word.
Barbara: onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like it is describing. For instance, buzz or meow. Punxutawney Phil is the weather predicting groundhog. Marsupials are basically mammals with pouches, such as kangaroos.
Tara: haha, I may have been a tad bit generous with my phrasing.
Writer Dad: If I had a time machine, I would let you cut to the front of the line.
Marelisa: Good point… it is never to late to make things right.
Tabbie: Thank you! That is one wonderful fact.
Vered: I am glad I could set the record straight.
Lance: They say parents want better for their kids than they had for themselves. I can tell you care about your kids.
Do banana peels kill??
I’d never have imagined… how do they manage to commit this outrageous crime?
Hilarious. How about this fact — We shed our skin every year. We are someone else every year. Yeah! that’s the real change.
I never made a homemade volcano as a child. I guess I never was a child.
Also, I can spell onomatopoeia correctly. See, look. I did it without peeking.
1. Nicholas Cage stars in precisely nine mediocre movies each year.
Yeah, but The Rock made up for them … ahem …
2. Your favorite beverage tastes better when consumed through a silly straw.
I must be in denial about this one — don’t much do straws.
3. Banana Peels kill.
Loved Scott’s take on this!
4. Punxsutawney Phil shall never perish.
I realized at one point that he must be very, very old, but then I realized, DUH …
5. Childhood is incomplete without making at least one home-made volcano. (using vinegar and baking soda)
Never made a volcano, but I still fill pretty complete having grown up on a farm with real natural phenomenon like tornadoes, floods, and ice storms.
6. Marsupials > Insects
OK …
7. Nobody can spell onomatopoeia correctly.
That’s what spell checker is for!
I made a volcano when I was young, but not out of vinegar and baking soda, no, that was to weak for my tastes. I needed something with a bit more power, a little more UMPH behind it, so I ground down 4 boxes of strike anywhere match heads, then ran a fuse from the paper-mache volcano….needless to say, it did erupt quite fiercly.
By erupt I mean completely destroyed itself and by fiercly I mean I found pieces of volcano about 100 feet from where it once stood. Apparently I made the hole in the top too small and the pressure couldn’t get out any faster, needless to say it was more of a bomb than a volcano.