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| Welll... It's been a year without a post, and today I decided I wasn't really coming back. I'm starting again (because there is a new purpose): smokeNmirrz.blogspot.com. You're welcome to come over with (it will be mostly about teaching writing), or just let this little post fade right back into the woodwork. Thank You. For following my story, when I was sick. It's been three years (can you believe it?), and I just got another thumbs up from the oncologist. I hear about a lot of cancer, and transplants like mine that haven't worked, and I'm thankful every day to be alive. But I don't much like talking about the illness any more. So, we're dismissing, "without day" set for some future meeting. At least here. See you elsewhere! God bless! si·ne di·e (sī'nĭ dī'ē, sĭn'ā dē'ā')
adv. Abbr. s.d.
Without a day specified for a future meeting; indefinitely: Parliament was dismissed sine die.
[Medieval Latin : Latin sine, without + Latin diē, ablative of diēs, day.]
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| It's been Flash Dice Wars non-stop ever since Niko sent that URL. Bah! Anyway, today Taylor watched for a while, played for a while, then came down and said How much do you love me? So we played the real thing. Then, in the course of a legitimate game we ended up perfectly distributed. Notice, I didn't say evenly distributed; Tay would have won the game, but still. Whoda thunk? I never saw it before. Until now.
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| Inspired by Megan's return after a long hiatus and even more by Lindsay's challenging Name This Tune post, I sat down today (home sick) and took a short list of favorite MOVIE quotes that I had started a couple years ago, and added to it. These are lines, like Lindsay said, that are Significant (to me), or I just plain can't stop laughing when I hear them. And, I use them often in my own speech, which is a telltale sign of importance (imitation...flattery). Reveals something about the movies and actors I like, as well.
What you need to do, if you missed Lindsay's post, is name the Movie it came from. Actually, there's too many. "Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up." PICK FIVE that you can nail down. Oh, who cares, if you have time to spin today like I did, you'll do "Whatever I feel like I wanna do! Gosh!"
Here are my top thirty movie quotes, the first ten in more or less FAV order, after that, not so much:
1. Wanna take a ride?
2. Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'
3. Earn this
4. I don't care!
5. You know that road. You know exactly where it ends. And I know that's not where you want to be
6. I'll be back
7. Well, I'm back
8. I was quit when I came in here. I'm twice as quit now
9. Goo-oo-oOO-ood!
10. What hump?
11. These go to eleven
12. Does your dog bite?
13. I'm not dead yet!
14. Surrender! You mean you want to surrender to me? Very well, I accept
15. First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
16. Look at us. Look at what they make you give
17. No capes!
18. How does it look now? Looks clear
19. That'll do, pig
20. Try not. Do, or do not, there is no try
21. Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads
22. The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long
23. Hey, OLD GUYS!
24. Get out of here as fast as you can
25. You know, for kids!
26. This is gonna be fun. We can stay up late, swappin' manly stories and in the morning, I'm making WAFFLES
27. You can't handle the truth!
28. I shall call him Squishy, and he shall be mine. And he shall be my Squishy
29. The world's only living heart donor
30. We thought about it for a long time, "Endeavor to persevere." And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union
Once I got started, I couldn't really stop, so I threw in another 30. These are my second thirty favorites, in no particular order.
Hoo-ah!
I'll have what she's having
You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting
That's a negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full
May I go to the bathroom first?.......Thank you
In the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married!
Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?
Asps, very dangerous. You go first
You had me at hello
You seem somewhat familiar; have I threatened you before?
I think we've all arrived at a very special place, eh? Spiritually... ecumenically... grammatically
You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"
Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard, incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and...I am not Him
I don't need to know where I'm goin', I just need to know where I've been
You think i'm gorgeus, you wanna date me, love me and marry me!
Why, oh why didn't I take the blue pill?
Fly! You fools!
Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!
It's just a flesh wound!
I got better
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a!
We are men of action. Lies do not become us
Rest well and dream of large women
I have introduced myself. You have introduced yourself. This is a very good conversation
It's not who you are underneath, but what you do that defines you
Don't look at the light! I can't help it, it's so beautiful!
Flying through space ain't like dustin' crops, boy
There's always a bigger fish
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| I thought up an original joke tonight. Anybody can repeat stuff, but to come up with a decent play on words on your own, well, I live for that kind of action. Here it is:
Everybody knows Love is the CONCEPT that has been sung about more than any other thing, down through time. Now, what THING (physical object) has been sung about, more than any other, down through the ages?
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| I just got new tires for a very oldy-but-still-quite-goody bike. A Univega (have y'all out there even HEARD of that brand?) that I bought for a pretty good penny back in Ames, Iowa. Over the years, off and on, I've dusted it off, and it always runs. But this time (Brett got a new bike; I'm thinking of going riding with him), the sides of the ancient, shredded tires BULGED out when I aired them back up. So I replaced them. I got these. Made by Specialized. Instead of the previous hybrid road/mountainbike tread, I went with a pure pavement tire. Still fat (for a 27"), still incredibly stable, but smooth, no radda-ta-dadda-ta going down the road. It took all of 15 minutes to make the transition. After supper, I took it out for a spin. !!! It's like riding a new bike. This high quality vehicle has still got IT, after all these years. And with new tread, I couldn't stop riding. I can go over anything! Meant to do 1 or 2 miles; I must have ridden 5. Good times.
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