Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway for Jacqueline Carey’s Saints Astray! I have the entries and will be drawing the winner tonight. Tomorrow morning, the winner(s) of my Thanksgiving essay contest will also be posted.
In the meantime, here’s a random comic for your amusement!
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| This is why the Narnia would never have been written if C.S. Lewis had been a computer geek. 😉 |
It has been decided. If my everyone in my office was the cast in the Munsters, I’d be the blonde girl. I’m not sure if this is supposed to be a compliment or not. O.o?
Regardless of the doubtful compliment of the statement, I laughed for a solid five minutes when they told me this. I think they think I’m normal! 😀
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| Awesome for so many reasons. And cool points to anyone who knows why. 😀 |
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| XKCD FTW! |
Hopefully no one reading this never had a teacher who fell into the third category. 😉
This weekend I went to dinner with some coworkers and while the dinner itself was okay, dessert became hilarious. One of my coworkers (we’ll call her C) decided she wanted a little bit of something sweet, hopefully lemon. They didn’t have anything with lemon, but the waiter recommended this vanilla cake. It came and we were all shocked:
They call this little?! We put our surprise aside and C dug in, only to decide two bites in that the cake was not only huge, but horrible. “This cake is like the great wall of china from hell!” she declared with gusto. Then she attacked.
Apparently, this is what happens when C decides she doesn’t like the dessert! She actually smashed it even further after this point (repeatedly insisting it was “Bad, bad, bad!”
All in all, I don’t think I’ve ever been so amused by food. 😀
Imagination can be a burden:
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| XKCD – Pain Rating |
I just found this on xkcd.com and had to share!
I was listening to the radio the other day and a Beatles song called Paperback Writer came on. As I was listening to this song, a song I have heard at least a hundred times before, it struck me that this is a perfect bad query letter example! I mean, seriously! So, to prove my point, I put the lyrics in this post. To make it easier to see as a letter, I put it into paragraph form, but the only other change I made was taking out the repetitions of the phrase ‘paperback writer.’
Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me
years to write, will you take a look? It’s based on a novel
by a man named Lear and I need a job, so I want to be a
paperback writer.It’s the dirty story of a dirty man and his clinging wife
doesn’t understand. His son is working for the Daily
Mail, it’s a steady job but he wants to be a paperback
writer.It’s a thousand pages, give or take a few, and I’ll be
writing more in a week or two. I can make it longer if
you like the style, I can change it round but I want to be
a paperback writer.If you really like it you can have the rights, it could make
a million for you overnight. If you must return it, you can
send it here but I need a break and I want to be a
paperback writer.Paperback writer.
So, am I right or am I right? 😉