JamesSavik

I've heard rattlebrain described a little differently. Sometimes when you get older and your brain gets full, it doesn't always come out in the right order, or when you need it to. It's a bit like the junk drawer in your kitchen, which has all sorts of useful miscellaneous stuff, if only you could remember what was in there. Clothespins to seal potato chip bags? ✔️ Small Hammer? ✔️ Screwdriver? ✔️ Toothpicks? ✔️ Matches? ✔️ 8" Lighter for the grill? ✔️ Now, if only my silly rattlebrain could remember what was in there, I could probably run the whole house from that drawer.

I can see #167 getting pretty raunchy.

I’d much rather have Periwinkle than kudzu any day! Kudzu is the worst of a host of bad stuff that makes Periwinkle look well behaved in comparison.

Sometimes that’s a good thing. If you don’t have something growing on every square millimeter, then a worse weed will grow there.

Lithium is so reactive because it is what is called a "group 1" element on the periodic table. All the group 1 elements are insanely reactive. They have a free electron and aren't afraid to use it. Rb, Cs and Fr are increasingly rare as you move down the group, but are similarly reactive. These three are often nasty fallout products from nuclear detonations or meltdowns. CS is a particularly bad one. Try throwing pure Sodium or Potassium in water, and you'll get the same or even more energetic results as Lithium. Most of these elements are bound into compounds, so they don't just randomly catch on fire. They are usually stored in an oil, so they can't react with air. In high skool, I got in a little trouble when I got some Potassium from our chem lab and flushed in down a toilet at our arch-rival. The principle said he knew it was me because I was the only sophmore smart enough to pull the caper.

I'm going to buy a 2019 Toyota Tacoma and am a little shocked at the outlay required.

You've got to land sometime, birdie.

Get in mah belly!

Rotund is a less rude word for fat. I got tired of being fat and lost eighty pounds (36.6 kg)... about the weight of a middle schooler. No, I didn't eat a middle schooler, but there were times I was so hungry, if one had been slow, things might have gotten dicey.

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Bah! It's easy. Better than emailing your story off, and it sits in somebody's inbox until they get around to it. If you want something done right, do it yourself. Damn. I just sounded like my Dad.

For many years, Weird Al has been lampooning the lyrics of musicians of all stripes: pop, rock, rap, and even country. He will take the songs stanza by stanza and rewrite them, usually hilariously. For instance, here's one I wish he had done: I Get Around by the Beach Boys 'round, 'round, get around I get around, yeah Get around, 'round, 'round, I get around I get around Get around, 'round, 'round, I get around From town to town Get around, 'round, 'round, I get around I'm a real cool head Get around, 'round, 'round, I get around I'm making real good bread Get around, 'round, 'round, I get around Here is what I would have done with it. (Wear a helmet, cupcake. It's gonna be dirty.)

Good doggo. You can eat as many burglars as you want.

Authors must beware of what they may think of as a deft turn of phrase. If it works, fine. If not, it may be seen as anything from pretentious to provencial. When in doubt, don't.

I suppose it’s a bit like reclaiming the word queer. Some people will be all for it, but use it in front of the wrong people and you’ll be spitting teeth.

My older brother was a Parrothead from way back.

Whirlybird just doesn't have the same ring to it as Arnold's choppa.

Don't give up hope. A few years ago, I weighed 310 pounds. After working hard and getting in shape, now I weight 230 and look like the sexy old guy on the back cover of romance novels. Now, all the old cougars at the supermarket hit on me. It's possible, it just takes a while and requires you put in the work.

Deep thoughts with Smudge.

It's a burden being so hott. At my age, it's exhausting.

LAC is an acronym for Light Attack Craft. In some works of science fiction, they are small ships only capable of sub-light speeds, used to patrol the space around planets. LACs are typically used for piracy suppression, search & rescue, patrol and customs duties. Individually, they aren't very impressive. When a hundred of them show up, you might be in deep trouble. Some larger, heavily populated planets have thousands of them organized in wings of 100 and call the overall formation the High Guard. Pictured below: Dylan Aerospace LX-1 single seat LAC attached to the Red Raiders wing of Parliament's High Guard.

Nothing could be better calculated to drive me from peevish to psycho killer than a flock of robocalls arriving while I'm busy with work. If I knew where they were, I'd call in an airstrike.

So... is Dizney having an incompetence spree?