13 Thursday Headlines
1. On April fool’s day I wrote this fake news story: A fool resembling Donald Trump announced on April 1st that Thursday had been fired. People in board rooms across America were stunned at the turn of events and feared the lost revenue that would ensue. CEOs scrambled to book Friday, which overflowed into Saturday, and bloggers who play Thirteen Thursday didn’t know what to do with themselves.
2. My egg man, Ed, called me from town Monday morning to say that he couldn’t drop off my farm fresh eggs at the New Mountain Mercantile because a criminal was loose in the county and the Mercantile, among other places, was locked down. “Is it really that bad?” I asked him. “I’m not worried. I have eggs. If I see him I’ll throw them,” he answered.
3. A rude awakening: The growth in Floyd over the past several years has its pros and cons. I was recently parked in the new (full) downtown parking lot in between two other cars and instinctively locked my car door, thinking I was in Christiansburg. It’s the first time that has happened.
4. My friend Katherine and I talked about meeting early so we could have some time to catch up before we headed to our writer’s circle on Sunday, but by the time I pulled up her driveway, I had this to say. “My idea of being early is not being late.”
5. When I was a girl I was very curious about things like the Immaculate Conception and the quick brown fox that jumped over the lazy dog.
6. At the time, I didn’t understand the significance of such a strange sentence or why I was made to write it out over and over in Penmanship class. Now I know that the phrase is a pangram, a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet. Besides being used to practice penmanship it was used to test the letters on a typewriter.
7. This is a first: I’ve been given a blog award by Claudia from On a Limb for being “Mountain Sexy.”
8. At a red light in Christiansburg, watching a young man saunter across the street, I thought to myself, ‘Imagine having nothing better to do but develop and perfect a cool walk.’
9. THIS is what I hear when I walk to mailbox. Can you guess what it is?
10. Favorite word of the week: Conniption. I remembered it after Deana said something about a “hissy fit.”
11. Found while I was picking up my award from Claudia: After 7 years and 500 interviews, a two hour presentation on the secrets of success is presented in 3 minutes HERE.
12. I couldn’t help notice that he went over 3 minute time limit. If he was at a poetry slam, points would be deducted.
13. I’m going to a Poetry Symposium this weekend with my Scrabble playing poet friend Mara, who is a student at Hollins University and will be presenting poetry and a paper. Soon I’ll be blogging from a front row seat at VMI, a great way to ring in National Poetry month.
Post notes: Ironically, my blog was down for two hours this morning and so, as far as I'm concerned, Thursday was almost canceled. Thursday headquarters is here. My other 13's are here. View more 13 Thursday’s here.
Comments
Conniption is a great word! In my youth people also said, "having a cow." I wonder where that came from.
Posted by: Di | April 3, 2008 12:20 PM
I had a hissy fit just the other day. It wasn't pretty!
Posted by: Janet | April 3, 2008 12:23 PM
A cow going in labor has a conniption?
Posted by: colleen | April 3, 2008 12:45 PM
Great list here! Happy TT! Hope you'll visit mine too...
Posted by: Pretty Life Online | April 3, 2008 12:59 PM
There are weeks that I wouldn't mind cancelling Thursday but then I would truly miss life from Floyd perspective. I adore your randomness but sometimes get so caught up in your links I almost forget to comment.
Posted by: Lazy Daisy | April 3, 2008 1:40 PM
I like your headline post - fun to read! I'm still stuck on the Immaculate Conception, that it refers to Mary's conception, not Jesus'. I think that'd be a good headline too. :)
Posted by: Jennie | April 3, 2008 2:35 PM
You think it'll be safe to return to Floyd with all the goings-ons? :-) Lions and tigers and bears, oh my. I've been sort of keeping up with the manhunt via the Muse.
Posted by: June | April 3, 2008 3:01 PM
I love your lists. They are true to the spirit of this meme. I love your typing test ponderings. I have wondered about the fox and dog myself!
Posted by: SandyCarlson | April 3, 2008 3:50 PM
I think the Immaculate Conception refers to Jesus' conception but maybe they are taking it so far as to wonder about Mary's as well.
I haven't been to town since the troopers started trooping around. I can imagine it's not a pretty sight. Everybody's so hair triggered these days. Overkill all around.
Posted by: colleen | April 3, 2008 3:55 PM
Another Great TT!!
I like the word conniption too! I used it a lot when I was younger. I hardly use it now. I think we got it from Mom & Dad.
"Dad is going to have a conniption"!!!!
Posted by: Sherry | April 3, 2008 5:47 PM
Might that be a robin that I am hearing???? I have no idea - since I don't really know what bird sounds like what - but, it seemed like a good guess.
I have conniption fits too - not hissy fits!!!
Posted by: Sara | April 3, 2008 5:49 PM
I thought we got "conniption" from the Whites.
Those are peepers! A kind of spring frog.
!!!
Posted by: colleen | April 3, 2008 6:03 PM
I have conniptions. If you're going to have a fit, have a good one, I say.
Posted by: Nancy Liedel - The Goat Rodeo | April 3, 2008 6:13 PM
According to my dictionary, "conniption" is "probably an invented word from the 19th century." Hmmm... I'm trying to picture the costuming that might accompany a fit of rage and/or hysterics. What could they possibly find hysterical? the carriage was late? the ink wasn't dry? bad taffy pull?
Anyway... Colleen... love the blog. If we lived nearby, we'd be bff's... I'm completely sure. Rah 1969!
Posted by: Zee | April 3, 2008 6:30 PM
p.s. I was going to do "Common Misconceptions" for my T13 today, but didn't. HOWEVER.... The Immaculate Conception was not Jesus; it was Mary, born without original sin. Oh la dee dah... I'm a collapsed Catholic (that's one step beyond lapsed).
Posted by: Zee | April 3, 2008 6:32 PM
great headlines Mountain sexy! haha
Posted by: lucy | April 3, 2008 6:34 PM
So the success guy wouldn't be successful at poetry slam? ;) Great list as always! :)
Happy TT!
Posted by: On a Limb with Claudia | April 3, 2008 7:18 PM
Work-a-frolics? lol
I'm struck by the fact that you don't usually lock your doors and you have an egg-man.
Coo-coo Kajoo.
~S
Posted by: Shephard | April 3, 2008 9:52 PM
Oh, and I almost forgot... Michele sent me. :)
~S
Posted by: Shephard | April 3, 2008 9:53 PM
"A fool resembling Donald Trump' Are you sure it wasn't him?
Posted by: nicholas | April 3, 2008 9:56 PM
What happened to the criminal ? did he get the eggs in his face ??
Posted by: Gattina | April 4, 2008 12:47 AM
I was so busy yesterday that my Thursday WAS cancelled, at least most of the online part of it. That's why I didn't get here until Friday.
9. What you hear when you walk to mailbox is the little frogs that come out in the spring to sing to each other, right?
No, Colleen, the Immaculate Conception refers to the conception of Mary: "The Immaculate Conception is, according to Roman Catholic dogma, the conception of Mary, the mother of Jesus without any stain of original sin, in her mother's womb" ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception.
I wanted to comment before I wander too far away, so now I'll go learn the secrets of success ... in three minutes.
Posted by: Bonnie Jacobs | April 4, 2008 9:03 AM
Yes, I looked it up too and learned that it did refer to Mary's mother's conception and that Jesus' conception was called a virginal conception but with no capital letters there. I guess I flunked catechism.
Yes, frogs called PEEPERS. Guy is still on the loose.
Posted by: colleen | April 4, 2008 9:43 AM
did he catch the prowler in Floyd . I read in Muse. Is that young man soccer man ready to be a grandad??what is the date ??
Posted by: sandy kessler | April 4, 2008 11:51 AM
Joe COULD be a natural granddad but in general he's kind of young to be one. He's not my sons' biological dad and is an undisclosed number of years younger than me! Still he's psyched to be grandfather. Joe and I got together when my youngest was about five, so they are well bonded. (see above post).
Posted by: colleen | April 4, 2008 12:31 PM
Technically it is Friday here, so for me Thur was cancelled....or I am just now getting caught up on Thur blogging!
Happy weekend....and thanks for stopping by my TT.
Posted by: tommie | April 4, 2008 11:31 PM
I like the world conniption. My mom used that word and rippet? I have no idea how to spell it but like fussing...I haven't heard it used in years.
"Mountain Sexy" I love it! I get on to Martin for not locking his vehicle when he is parked on Main Street Stuart for work. Especially when he is in one of mine that may have my things in it. I tell him small towns have crime too, as you would think he would know!
Posted by: Deana | April 5, 2008 10:27 AM
I’m catching up belatedly … loved your April Fool’s spoof about T-13ers and Donald Trump and I ‘wonder’ about the synchronicity of your blog ‘being down’ for a couple of hours! Methinks that may have been how I missed this post? (Of course it could be because I've been distracted by 'tennis' this week again). LOL
As always, I enjoyed each of your ‘musings’ … but (in addition to the first entry) … I suspect #4 will stay with me today. Congratulations on the Mountain Sexy award from Claudia … very cool ;--)
Hugs and blessings,
Posted by: storyteller | April 5, 2008 11:48 AM
"the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" is still very much in use as many type foundries use it to display various font styles. I always liked that sentence — it brought whimsy to what was all too often a stressful day.
Posted by: Smiler | April 5, 2008 4:45 PM
I have had trouble accessing your blog for a few days. Thought I might have a meltdown without my usual Colleen hit. I had wondered if the criminal was in your area; reckon so. Great TT.
Posted by: CountryDew | April 5, 2008 5:29 PM