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Why Wednesday and Not Wensday
A full and complete history of Wednesday, the God's that are behind it, and the reasons those gods were part of the whole mix in the first place.

http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1606930/why_wednesday_and_not_wensday.html

All knowledge is good. All knowledge!

Knowledge, the amount of information that is in your head and applicable to other parts of your world. Many will say that there is some information that is not needed, or some that will never be used. Well, guess what? We don't know what the future will hold. Even if you have your whole life planned out, a left when a drunk wanted to take a right will change everything. What information had you deemed nonsense that is now going to come in handy?
More knowledge knowledge knowledge:

Gummy bears were first introduced in 1922.
Marry Poppins is actually a series of books.
The first computer came out in 1941.
Licorice is a flavor.
Twizlers come in 11 different flavors.
The "red" licorice taste is actually cherry flavor.
Only females mosquitoes bite, it's to incubate her babies.
Ancient carrots were purple.
Women look at other women more than they look at men.
Our parents are what we compare all future relationships to.
Onions have no taste, only a powerful enough smell.
The power of onions allows us to experience what dogs smell like.
The smallest animal on earth is the bumble bee bat.
The largest Animal in the world is the Blue Whale.
The blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an adult elephant.
The Elephant is the largest land animal.
The Giraffe is the tallest animal on earth.
Finally...
The Italian Flag was created by Napoleon Bonaparte.

Do you have any?

Rhyme schemes

When we look at poetry or anything that rhymes,we see that there is a patern. When Dr. Seus stated "I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam-I-am. He was dealing with an a, a rhyme scheme.

Rhyme schemes, and how English people categorize "rhyme, is by looking at the last word of a line of poetry. They then give each ending word (or the sound of each ending word) a letter. Like letters rhyme together, unlike letter do not.

Example:

Roses are red (a) <---picked a to denote the "ed" sound of red. Violets are blue (b) <--- picked b to denote the long o sound of blue. Rhyming is pretty (c) <----does not rhyme with red or blue, so it must be different. and so are you (b) <----b again because it rhymes with "blue". With this tool in hand, you will be able to tell the rhyme schem of all poems. In fact, many of the named types of poems: sestina, sonnet, etc list their way of rhyming with this sort of alphabet rhyming notations. A few more examples to help you out:

ABAC

I never know (A)

How much flour and water (B)

Will make perfect dough. (A)

I’ll probably just go buy one. (C)

ABAB

My neighbor mowed his lawn, (A)

And then he looked at mine (B)

In disgust. I said to him, “Go on!”(A)

So he mowed my yard too, even under the big pine. (B)

ABCABC

Watching way too much T.V. (A)

Will rot your brain (B)

So they say. My dad (C)

Loved the T.V. more than me. (A)

So I put him in Shady Lane (B)

And now I’m happy and he’s sad. (C)

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A professor in Rutgers has compiled a HUGE list of publishers that either prefer or will only accept e-mail submissions. Can I hear a hip hip hooray, for the dying of the paper craze.:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pbonline.html

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Fianlyl - yet not really part of the same vein -

This site is for the poet in us all. Even if you are not a full poet, yet you still have poetry you'd like to get out there. Check out this site. If they accept your work, they will create a e-chapbook. All you have to do is market it, and get it printed if you like.
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Implementing money for your family photos

I'm assuming you have already read "Making a little more money", posted on this Blog.

You create an account for one of the many money making websites out there. For review: Examples of these sites are: associatedcontent.com, kforce.com, triond.com.

The goal is to get this site out to as many people as possible. That's not a problem because you have all the resources right there.

Send it to ALL of your relatives, even the ones you don't speak to. Then send it to all of your friends. If you have a job that is free with their e-mail, send it to all of your fellow employees. If you don't feel comfortable, that's understandable, just send it to your cube-friends. Once you send this site to everyone, explain that you'd like them to send it to everyone else in the family and friends that you do not know.

Most of these sites have a way to add e-mail addresses to your site. Therefore, whenever you post something new to it - they'll get an e-mail that states "so and so just posted a new picture. Click here to see it." Most people will click on to see the new stuff, or read the new stuff. This is great for those who have relatives outside of the state, and need a way to keep in touch with the family.

Let's see the revenue. I've assumed that there are 2 parents, 4 grand parents, 2 uncles & 2 aunts (1 brother or sister for each parent), each parent has 3 friends, and each relative has 3 friends, and there is 1 long lost relative.

Revenue:
total people sent to by you - 16.
total people sent to by another - grand parents - 12, aunts and uncles - 12, friends - 8, long lost-2
Total page views first send - 50
Add random visitors - 10, for a total of 60 page views each time you post something.

That means if you post something each week you'll get 240 views, for a total of 1/4 of $2 or .50 cents. Disappointed? Don't be. This is the very bare minimum.

Each time someone wants to just show your stuff, it's a hit.
Each time someone meets someone new and gives them the site, it's another few hits.

No mater what - every time you post your family photos, your "this is what's going on info, etc - it's another hit. Of course, the bigger the family the more hits.

Do you have a lot of "friends" on my space? Add them to it too!

Good luck. Let me know your results!!!

Making money Now

LISTEN UP ALL PEOPLE WHO WANT A LITTLE EXTRA MONEY

How much - $3-10/ month, depending on a lot of things.

There now seems to be a way to make a a little bit more money, and very few have tapped in on this. It's completely legal, and easy to do.

There are tons of sites out there where you can set up a photo album and a video log of your family or kids. There are also a lot of websites out there that will pay you for the amount of people who come see your pictures, writing, video, etc. Why not get a few extra dollars for people to come see your family, they're going to do it anyway. These are not times to thumb your nose at a way to make money.

A few sites: kforce.com, associatedcontent.com, triond.com, just to name a few, will allow you to publish non-controversial pictures, videos, and writings onto your section of their website. You'll get a website name and lots of ways to get your info out to the public.

Usuall pay is about $1 - $1.50/1000 people arriving at your site. Trust me, this number goes faster thasn you realize.

You will also have to get a paypal account, but there is no charge to open a pay pal account.

It's a wave of the future...and an idea that will get a few extra dollars into your pocket.

- To see the full implemnetation see: Implementing money for your family photos on this blog.

Let me know what you think. Do you like this idea?

Parts or figures of speech

Many people do not realize the difference between metaphor and simile. Parts of speech are very important, and can change the way people understand the literature they're reading. Therefore, in order to help everyone out with these, here's a list of all parts of speech or figures of speech, and what they mean. Then just help you out a little more, I've added examples. I hope this helps everyone who needs it.

Fee free to "steal" this list if you would like, but please come back with comments for any future ideas. Thank-you

- Metaphor – Life is a beach, No man is an island

Note: See how much can be said in such a small amount of words?

- Simile – As hard as nails, Dry as a bone

- Symbolism – The flag and all it’s symbols which put together represent our country. Go over the symbols.

- Personification – The sun peeked over the horizon, The tree sighed as the wind blew.

- Alliteration – Slyly the slimy slippery snake slithered into the sweet sack of sugar.

- Onomonpeia – Buzz, Boing

- Hyperbole – ice cream cones a mile high

Odd things in the English language

Our language is crazy, there's no doubt about it. Ask any kid just learning to spell or just learning grammar and he'll tell you the same thing. So I compiled a few oddities for your enjoyment. Let me know what you think!

Read(past tense) = red – said the same way

Ghoti = fish

/gh/ as in enough

/o/ as in women

/ti/ as in nation

tomb does not equal bomb

dumb is not equal to bum

lord does not equal word, but does equal sword

heart, beard, heard

how does not equal low

daughter does not equal laughter

vicar does not equal cigar

ballet does not equal wallet

enamour does rhyme with hammer

mirage does not equal age

fury does not equal bury but does equal jury

mint does not equal pint

dull does not equal bull

heave does not help heaven

what does not rhyme with rut, but squat

wrokn = run

/wr/ - as in wrap

/o/ as in onion

/kn/ as in knife or knob

This poem is by an English teacher named G. Nolst Trenité in the city of Haarlem.

Trenité wrote articles under the pen name CHARIVARIOUS and a little booklet entitled "Drop Your English Accent," in which the poem appeared.

TEST YOUR SKILL

Once you've learned to correctly pronounce every word in the following poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. If you find it tough going, do not despair, you are not alone.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

Vocab Vocab important stuff!!

“The difference between the right word and the wrong one, is the difference between lightening and a lightening bug. “ – Samuel Clemmons (Mark Twain)

The great wordsmith, Mark Twain, makes a very good point in this little quote. When we know the correct word to say at the right time to convey the exact ting we want to say, there is no confusion, there is no misunderstanding of words, and there’s no odd looks because of the word you said or the thought you tried to convey.

What most people don’t realize is that a letter comprised of great words used perfectly, began the country that we call home. We are founded upon the words of people, and knowing those words allow us to understand the world that that document has created. Realize that through words everything is possible. Words are the only way we have to communicate with our fellow people. By using the correct group of words at the right time, you can change people’s opinions, the place where you live, and even the world. History has proven this idea time and time again. To say you know how to speak is to be able to put the words together in an intelligent and meaningful way, so that when they come out of your mouth they sound intelligent, intense, and profound. Unfortunately, many people believe that because a word means something simple, it is superfluous to use. IN FACT – That word IS the correct word to use, where the other is merely a substitute.

An example:

you got hit – angry
person cheated on you – hate
person cheated on you with your mom, but lied and said it was your best friend – detest
person raped and killed your mom – abhor

There is no room for movement in this group. They can not be used interchangeably, and if you don’t know what the last word means – look it up.

deadly scents on the loose

There is a population that exists among us that is almost not even looked at. In a world full of people that find it necessary to change their normal scent, there are some that look at this craze and fear for their life. The TV commercials are a fright-fest of brain washing, focus group tested, consumer mind control, and a guarantee for what this small, scared, helpless, group of our society will run into on a daily basis.

You need Axe to get a girl. Try body wash, after shave, lotion, shampoo, conditioner with all of your scent.

Bath and body works has tasty scents.

Glade tells you that you need a pump that sprays scents in the air.

Candle companies are telling you that they will help everything.

Then the evil spray companies that they have no connected to you dying, if you don’t use them.

Who?

The people who can not breathe. The people who gasp for breath on a daily basis. Many have no care for this group, because they have done it to themselves, or that is the general belief. 80% of the people with lung problems did not smoke. In fact, most of the pulmonary problems are inherited. Asthma, tuberculosis, lower copd, emphysema, and alph one anti-tripson deficiency disease. Most of my family had this last disease, Alpha-one. If they have the most common type they begin weezing around 28. Right around the 30 year mark, the breathing is acting funny. Soon they will be given an inhaler. At 31, they are having a lot of problems, and they have spoken to every doctor about what’s going on. At 38-40, they are on tons of pills. There’s talk of Oxygen, just to help, and they no longer work. Around 45 they are on a very high number of liters per minute, around a 5 or 6, and they are having frequent attacks. Sometime around 48-51 they will die. It’s gruesome, but that’s life.

All of these people have an aversion to scents. It shocks the little grape like structure called alveoli and they stop producing and breathing. Once they start to work again, they’ve loss a lot of muscle and energy to be able to do it to the correct level. They’re in the middle of an attack. Depending on how much scar tissue in the lungs, this can kill the person or drop them for the next day or so. When they shoot the rescue inhaler, they are zapped even more with an inability to breathe. – pretty gruesome!!

This is what happens to each one of these people. Every time there is someone with too much perfume and scents, we are gasping for breath, and wishing they come out of it.