13: Word to the Wise
1. I have never typed LOL (except for just now), but did type LMAO once. It was when I wrote that talk show host Bonnie Hunt had a 13 on her coffee cup and my sister Sherry told me in a comment that it was really a B for her name.
2. Poets are the nutty professors of words.
3. While in Blacksburg today I looked for my favorite word carved in the sidewalk on the corner of Draper and Jackson but found that it was worn to the point of being unrecognizable. What was my favorite word in cement? WORD.
5. Last weekend I provided care for a man with disabilities. I told him that after supper we would sit down and “catch up” but he heard Ketchup and got confused.
6. An alternative word for spring is boing.
7. I was recently scared by a dust ball the size of a gerbil under my phone table. Well, maybe the size of a mouse.
8. We just got a blast from the past, which means that winter blew and threw its weight around.
9. Speaking of blasts from the past, I find myself tuning in to those Time Life paid music advertisements as if they were favorite TV shows, especially the ones from the 60’s.
10. My Obama bumper sticker may be hanging off my bumper but I’m still attached to it. That’s what I told my husband when he asked me if he could just pull it off and I said ‘no.’
11. Not only has Obama begun to repair relationships with Muslims and rebuild ties with Turkey, he’s now the first U.S. president to hold Seder in the White House for Passover.
11. Some beautiful old country names for my collection, found in the local newspaper obituaries: Men: Vencil, Cephas, Sumpter, Gratton, Esker, Saford, Leston, Waller, Harless and Coy. Women: Arnedia, Nannie Belle, Hava, Hettie, Treva, Reneda, Lita, Daphina, and Essie.
12. And these words have not been taken: asofati, tenfig, cootat, veright, whan, dimpers (taken from blogger word verifications. I just know they have the potential to be real words).
13. In three words? To Obama? HERE.
More Thirteen Thursday words HERE.
Comments
#1: I use it too often, but it is perfect for some things!
#9: Me too.....LOL
#12: asofati.....what you say to a former classmate at a school reunion when they have gained too much weight.
#13: I love that site! Thanks for the link.
Posted by: kenju | April 8, 2009 11:59 PM
I love the beautiful old country names on your list.
Posted by: Janet F | April 9, 2009 3:04 AM
i went to high school with a girl whose first name was "word."
i thought it was as beautiful as she was.
love your 13s - always eager to get here.
Posted by: sky | April 9, 2009 3:48 AM
More great thoughts. I loved #2.
Posted by: Anthony North | April 9, 2009 5:33 AM
Very creative once again. Do not know how you do it!!
Posted by: Tabor | April 9, 2009 6:39 AM
Those old names may look cool, but I think children may not appreciate it if we named them those. :)
Posted by: carmen | April 9, 2009 7:40 AM
I never use those abbreviations for "laughing my Ass off." I still won't. It seems many of the titles we use today have an abbreviation or an initial for something.
It is hard to decipher these and I wonder what the heck they mean.....especially in Nursing.
Some are acceptable abbr. but others are made up, I'm talking about nursing. But for an example that is non nursing....look at SNL we used to call it "Saturday Night Live"!!!
Posted by: Sherry | April 9, 2009 7:53 AM
I saw an obituary in the Floyd Press at least 26 years ago and the woman's name was Carnal. Carnal Hall. Never forgot that. And it sounds like you might need to vacuum your house. LMAO.
Posted by: rio semione | April 9, 2009 8:05 AM
I am always looking at those word verifications and wondering if there is such a word, and if so, what does it mean? lol
Great list! Happy T13!
Posted by: Adelle Laudan | April 9, 2009 8:33 AM
My Obama decal is still on my car too...I'm proud of it!
Posted by: june | April 9, 2009 8:54 AM
My grandmother met a woman in the 1940s in Roanoke who was named "Preg-nancy". And sometimes I make up meanings to myself of the word verification things.
Posted by: Leslie | April 9, 2009 10:11 AM
I once knew an @$$hole disguised as a man who called himself Cephas.
Posted by: Janet | April 9, 2009 10:29 AM
I think these old names are like the hippy names of the more recent past. Many were made up or came from last names, I would guess. I started saving them a couple of years ago and have along list now. One of my favorites is a woman's name of Lake.
Posted by: colleen | April 9, 2009 10:41 AM
I type LOL constantly. And lol, and ROFLMAO, and :) and :D. Hmmm, seems to be a pattern here.
Posted by: Alice Audrey | April 9, 2009 12:40 PM
Did that comment go through? I've been having problems with it lately.
Posted by: Alice Audrey | April 9, 2009 12:43 PM
interesting
Posted by: angela | April 9, 2009 1:53 PM
Love your 13 - and thanks for introducing me to InThreeWords...
BTW, loved your article on the quilt guild.
Posted by: Sara | April 9, 2009 3:02 PM
I always love your TTs. Let's see... a boing is what my birds play on in their new aviary (it's a rope or hemp covered "spring" perch), veright is definitely an important word. "ver" from the latin "veritas" meaning truth, along with a shortened form of the english "very" and "right" as in "correct".
Defined as "very" and "truthfully" "correct"
ex: Your #2 statement is veright!
Posted by: Thorne | April 9, 2009 4:56 PM
thanks for the :)
Posted by: susan | April 10, 2009 6:52 AM
I don't know why , but "boing" made me laugh really hard (LOL if you will ;))
Thanks for the amusement! Here from Netchick.
Posted by: Manhattan Roasts | April 10, 2009 9:40 AM
#6 the season of boing how right on
Posted by: sandy | April 10, 2009 11:50 AM
I always liked my mother's name, Retha. She had sisters Bertha, Lily, Catherine, Eula and Bessie (and a brother, Ben). My Dad (Russell) had brothers Roy, Wilbert, Seba, Lundy and Otha (and a sister, Pennilou, who we call Penny). I'm sure the more unusual names came from the bible. Like most farm families back then, they had siblings that died in infancy but I can't remember those names. I'm glad my grandson has family names, Tiamon Joshua.
Posted by: Rick Parrish | April 10, 2009 12:59 PM
Great names, Rick! Thanks for sharing them.
Posted by: colleen | April 10, 2009 1:07 PM
I LOVE that Obama gad a Seder in The White House! This says a lot in every way.
Those names are amazing, Colleen....I haqve never heard most of them...Men or Women....lol!
As always...a GREAT TT!
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | April 10, 2009 7:41 PM
There are 2 magnetic Obama stickers on our car, and there they will stay!
Posted by: Nicholas | April 10, 2009 10:06 PM
He held Seder. Amazing cool!
Those dust bunnies are funny. Pranksters all of them.
Posted by: Pearl | April 11, 2009 12:29 PM
At least your dust bunnies aren't the size of chihuahuas, like Beth's! Her post about Family Secrets was hilarious and her choice of words to describe her dust bunnies just cracked me up!!
Posted by: Jeff | April 11, 2009 9:35 PM