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Uncle Jay explains it to me too

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Discovered Uncle Jays explanation of big news for little minds recently and now enjoying it every week through my RSS reader.

This is a bit task to explain big news to little minds, isn’t it – nah! Because big news are only made big, when you look at them through Uncle Jays eyes they become very simple to understand. Many grown-ups or those who want to call themselves that will probably not like it because the ego-stroking would go away if they did not have to have all that brain-power to understand the news.

But I have some question for Uncle Jay that nobody has been able to answer. How does it work that spending helps the economy. No really, how would it improve the economy if I buy Joe’s car and Joe buys my car? We have increased spending, didn’t we?

Please, Uncle Jay, explain this to me and you will be my great hero. But first, let’s see what Uncle Jay explains today…

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Nuts and Balls versus Testicles

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Our language only becomes possible through its non-precision.  Think of the Eskimos who, evidently, have hundreds of words for the different kinds of snow they deal with every day. That is possible for them as they probably have only one word for all the green stuff that you eat – vegetable.

Now, imagine that beside these hundreds of words for snow they would have hundreds of words in other specialized areas like screws, auto parts, fruits, colors, etc. These poor Eskimos would have to have a vocabulary of hundreds of thousands of words and would spend their whole life learning them all and never get anything meaningful done.

This is why we need abstraction in our vocabulary. If I go into a hardware store I can ask for the department were I can find screws. Once there I can inquire for a more specific screw and actually look and see what I need. In comparison, imagine if  I would have to ask at the front desk for the ardangwut, which is a metal bolt with a core diameter of 3.65mm, a thread depth of 0.43mm and a thread angle of 3.1 degrees (kidding, there is no ardangwut) – without having the word screw I would be screwed.

And now we to look at the other side of the coin in regards to abstraction – hilarious (which has not really anything to do with Hillary – or does it?) mix-ups! Especially in the area of sexuality and genitalia  so much abstraction has been introduced that things that look only remotely – very remotely – similar, are called the same. Think of wiener, nuts and balls, and, yes, screwing.

Following some dramatic stories demonstrating, that too much abstraction in this arena may seriously backfire…

I walked into a hair salon with my husband and three kids in tow and asked loudly, ‘How much do you charge for a shampoo and a blow job?’ I turned around and walked back out and never went back My husband didn’t say a word… he knew better.

Or this story about a female golf player…

I was at the golf store comparing different kinds of golf balls. I was unhappy with the women’s type I had been using.
After browsing for several minutes, I was approached by one of the good-looking gentlemen who works at the store.
He asked if he could help me. Without thinking, I looked at him and said, ‘I think I like playing with men’s balls.’

A tale from the candy store…

My sister and I were at the mall and passed by a store that sold a variety of candy and nuts. As we were looking at the display case, the boy behind the counter asked if we needed any help. I replied, ‘No, I’m just looking at your nuts.’ My sister started to laugh hysterically. The boy grinned, and I turned beat-red and walked away. To this day, my sister has never let me forget.

It even happens on TV to the  anchor woman  and weatherman…

What happens when you predict snow but don’t get any! We had a female news anchor that, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn’t, turned to the weatherman and asked: ‘So Bob, where’s that 8 inches you promised me last night?’ Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too – they were laughing so hard!

The Great Importance of Wearing Underwear when in Public

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Kathie (thank you!) conveyed this story of grave importance to me and I thought I better share it with you…

UNDERWEAR IS IMPORTANT!!!

Always wear clean underwear in public, especially when working under your vehicle…

From the Northwest Florida Daily News comes this story of a Crestview couple who drove their car to Wal-Mart, only to have their car break down in the parking lot.

The man told his wife to carry on with the shopping while he fixed the car in the lot. The wife returned later to see a small group of people near the car. On closer inspection, she saw a pair of male legs protruding from under the chassis. Although the man was in shorts, his lack of underpants turned private parts into glaringly public ones. Unable to stand the embarrassment, she dutifully stepped forward, quickly put her hand UP his shorts, and tucked everything back into place.

She took a deep breath and stood up boldly to face the crowd.

She looked across the hood and found herself staring at her husband, who had been standing idly by.

The mechanic, however, had to have three stitches on his forehead.

Strange Black Holes to Fall Through

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Ran into this fascinating video by the film makers Phil Sansom and Olly Williams about suddenly appearing black holes you can fall or climb through…

If this happens to our clueless office worker right there at work, could it not also happen to a boy of 11 and his little sister?

And, indeed, it has. These events are cronicled in the “Underlander Chronicles” by Suzanne Collins, a series of book that I can only warmly recommend if you are a parent who likes to read to the off-spring. The first book, Gregor the Overlander, got into our hands at a second hand book store for a mere quarter – you just have to recognize a treasure when it finds you. We read this chapter by chapter as good night literature and had to continue with the second book immediately. Today we finished this one and now we have a problem how to quickly get the third one.

Just in case you are looking for this as well, here are all the five books in the series (wondering if there is a number 6 in the works)…

Dancing for the Election Victory

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Here we have another great way to decide the election in a more reasonable fashion than it is done right now…

Don’t you think that this is way more civilized than hiring ad agencies and professional smearers to decide the election based upon the skills of these people?

The idea that people decide based upon issues I gave up when Ron Paul was outed. Sure, he was more outed by the media killing him by nor reporting about him, but then again, the populace should be interested in finding out about candidates and not wait for the press to spoon-feed them the information they think is the right for the herd to have.

bush hid the facts – in Notepad

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OK, so I did not discover this all by myself – but I heard about it and verified – and here is the story – and I’m sticking to it. If you have some time to waste just ry it yourself.

Did our Prez hid facts he knew from the public in order to get his way? (Somebody in) Microsoft thinks so.

Here is the proof…

For all my text editing needs on my windows machine I am using Visual Slick Edit – and old but reliable version. I use that editor to create a text file aaa.txt and enter the following text

I then saved this and opened it in Microsoft notepad

Adding anything to the file – even a single space after the text – and notpad shows the correct text. So I am sure that this is not a bug.

So, here you have it! This is the official version of notepad, so Microsoft knows that Bush hid the facts.

Campaigning all together

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Remember the scene in one Harry Potter film where the wizards in training are taught to face their biggest fear? The trick was to stand up to the fearsome thing and yell out “Ridiculous!” I try to teach this also to my son when he is afraid of something, for example in a dream, or if he accidentally sees something really scary on TV and any monsters follow him into his bedroom.

Now, politics, especially before an election, can be very scary – especially when you read and understand some of the things Larken Rose tries to tell us. But we can look beyond the scary part and actually see how ridiculous the whole business of campaigning is and I am glad to report that there are some out there who can still say a hearty RIDICULOUS!

Mating of the common water shrew

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This is an amazing work of cinematography. I can imagine the hours on hours of observations, waiting for just the right moment to get the high speed cameras rolling.

Fascinating also to be introduced to the totally different world, a world that to our eye seems to be so peaceful, but is in reality a jungle.

You really want to see this in the highest quality as possible – I found a good version on the water shrew website.

Soon my Pretties You Will be Mine

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Today on the lighter side – I have to share this picture that landed in my mail box.

I enjoyed it thoroughly and did not want to keep it for myself. So, no politics and anarchism this time, just good honest revenge-thoughts from a nerd…

two pretty girls watched enviously by an urgly guy

… and you have to admit, these pretties are really pretty, aren’t they?

And here for a cheap plug – would they be even prettier, if they were wearing tie-dye?