Libertine: On the Prowl

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Miscellaneous Thoughts

09:55, 2009-Mar-13 .. Posted in rants .. 2 comments .. Link

Pardon my lack of entries, but things have been a little hectic around here. I'm kind of distracted, so this will be an equally distracted entry of the odds and ends variety as I've not had much sleep in the last two days and I'm not up to concentrating very much tonight.

So, on to the disjointed snippets of thought in my mind
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Inane expression of the day

"Pop", used to mean "stand out". As in, "That purple scarf really makes her outfit pop". What? Is she made of popcorn and the scarf is a microwave oven?? This inane jargon-y buzzword needs to finish its 15 minutes, fast
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I noticed that a bird chirping in my yard today made the sound: "Wurty, wurty, wurty". Does anyone have any idea what kind of bird would make this sound?

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Stupid commercial of the day

Chick-Fil-A has an extremely lame radio commercial. One hears a "Clickety, clickety, clickety" sound interspersed with an occaisonal "ding!" sound. The clickety sound is the sound of a 70s era phone being repeatedly jostled by someone who isn't able to pick up the ear/mouthpiece part, but keeps bumping it. Then there's a voiceover telling us that cows are trying to call somewhere to tell people to eat more chicken. This is followed by mooing and more jostling.

It makes me wonder if the latest ad agency trend is to ttry to sound as moronic as possible, as it would seem so if the current crops of fast food ads are any indication.

Well, that's about it for tonight. I have a longer entry in mind, but I won't write it until I'm rested enough to concentrate properly on it.

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03:37, 2009-Mar-15 .. Posted by littleMissConfused
Sounds like a Cardinal.

The comercial I find most annoying is the Mcdonalds fillet o'fish....Give me back my fillet o'fish, give me back my fish......give me back my filett o'fish.....sung by a fish hanging on the garage wall.

Hope you got some rest

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08:02, 2009-Mar-20 .. Posted by Rubicon
Never heard the term "pop" used like that before. But I did the other day hear someone refer to someone as being "dope", meaning, really good. Somehow I don't think I'd like too much to be referred to that way!

I do from time to time hear a bird that has as sort of "wurty, wurty, wurty" sound to it....but couldn't tell you what the bird is. I'm still trying to figure out the bird that sounds like, "boochie, boochie, boochie." My house is surrounded by large trees and there's bird everywhere.

Chick-Fil-A used to advertise around here all the time....maybe that's why they don't anymore!