Nom de Plume

Alternatives to the boring old lorem ipsem for greeking. (Dummy copy in unfinished pieces.)

There’s hillbilly:

Tar reckon dumb, aunt havin’ butt jezebel consarn tools fer cain’t. Locality fire, huntin’ throwed stinky broke heap firewood, caboodle cowpoke, gal work whomp, where. Broke cipherin’, mud skedaddled hootch hold skinned catfight dirt mobilehome. Smokin’ snakeoil quarrel city-slickers work shotgun tobaccee jig grandpa polecat co-op rat gospel fer bull. Catfish ever neighbor’s havin’ tar no give. Preacher slap fart muster yippie, soap grandma, fish been. Heffer barrel preacher whiskey rent ails whoopin’ naw hairy lament.

Or marketing:

Snappy soothing flavored high-tech yummy can’t flavored care tough soaking spacious secret hello. Care all but opportunity going sold goodness reduced sensational tempt shine plus smile more, jumbo. Guaranteed pennies quickly stimulates families purchase crunchy adore appearance going pleasing.

Or even technobabble:

Proxy pc extended remote processor deviation ethernet messaging. Plasma disk, dithering system, connectivity transmission encapsulated, ethernet, device, generator, broadband. Adaptive scan boolean bypass generator infrared read-only. Reducer n-tier log broadband with, element harmonic anomoly silicon, data services, resistor audio, hyperlinked.

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Plundering all the books I can get my hands on for references to the elusive Queen Razia of Delhi. And while there were references to the Delhi Sultanate, they were few and far between–and zippo on Razia. Not a single reference. Sigh.

Teaching archaeologist Emma Fielding (pun intended, apparently) jaunts off to a dig in rural England just as one of the students disappears. Populated with your stereotypical suspects–the lord of the manor, the irascible developer, the brow beaten husband–the mystery eventually peters out to an anticlimactic end.

I don’t think I’m a the stereotypical Gen X-er with the attention span of a flea caused by too many commercials and video games. At least, I never thought I was–until now. I fully expected to devour this book about the history of various spices. But while some of the information was interesting, Dalby leaches out the flavor with pedantic, plodding prose. It’s riddled with “We discover that …” and “As we discussed earlier.” Well, he may have discussed something earlier, but I must have missed that part. It was too boring.

So what would Michael Jackson look like if he were normal? Age progression pictures according to forensic artist Stephen Mancusi.

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Wanted: Lots of things——-mostly collectables

I’m not going to lie here, I’m looking for a deal, who isn’t, everyone wants a bargain, either on a new car or that trinket at the yard sale, nobody wants to pay top dollar, even if its something for yourself to keep or resell we all want a deal. Here are some of the things I’m looking for, diecast toys, matchbox, hotwheels, older metal cars and trucks, could be newer limited toys. They don’t always have to look mint or brand new. Old car ads like dealer ads, like when you go to a car show and they hand out the new car ads, remember when you dad would go to a car show and he would come home with a bag or two full of free stuff from the show and years later their hidden in the attic or basement somewhere. Old gas station stuff, pumps, oil cans, signs, ads, really anythings along these lines. Old wooden fishing lures, reels, flys, fly rods. Anyways you get the idea, I am open to other things that are collectable too, but the list could be endless with all the things out there, so what do you have and is it going to be a bargin. You right I will resell somethings and their are those things that I will keep to add to my own collection. I will always consider helping you take pictures for you to sell here or on ebay and if you don’t understand ebay and I’m sure there are a few of you I wouldn’t mind helping you out, I’d even list your collectables and sell them for you on ebay, let me guess you will want a deal too. Lets talk. I also have a great idea for a dating site if someone is interested and has enough programming knowledge. Hey if you read all this thanks for your time, none of seem to have alot of free time. Have a great day or evening.

It’s not that I believe in them exactly. But I don’t NOT believe either. Here it is:

You’ve been trying to figure out what that feeling is all day. You woke up with it this morning and you just can’t shake it. Well, don’t be surprised if you realize that it’s quite familiar to you. It’s called passion, and it doesn’t just apply to someone you find seriously attractive. There are all kinds of passion. You’re experiencing the whole range, and you’ll keep feeling it all day long. Use this gift wisely

I feel I’ve made the right choice.

I am back in the wide world of freelance writing again.

You’ve been thinking about it for a while, and you’re just about sure that this is what you want to do. You’re ready to forget your job and abandon your routine. You’re done, you’re over it and you’ve had it with trying to pretend otherwise. But before you do anything rash, shouldn’t you at least talk to an elder who’s been there? Someone who can give you the benefit of experience? Yes, you should.

Now Blogger’s working.

I still think I’m going to install wordpress though.