Chosen Mysteries
 

Name the things that you do not know what they are or what they really mean, and yet have no intention of ever googling, choosing to keep the mystery alive.

i'll start:
square dancing.

Lemon Party.

Santorum

I'm having real difficulty with this. The only reason i would not look something up is if it occurs to me when I am not near a computer.

There are odd things that seem to only occur when I can't look them up, but then vanish from memory by the time I'm home/downstairs.

But...I can't think what any o fthem are. If I could...I'd look them up.


I suppose, technical terms, and also maybe stuff to do with political structures in other countries.

I'm with D, I always want to look things up. I guess my curiosity ends at other people's dumb religious things, I have no interest in my friend's deep Catholicism or Madge's style of Kabbalah etc

The Kardasians, or whoever they are. Once I figured out they weren't the Star Trek aliens, I figured I didn't need to know any more.

This! yes. That'll do.

But you do know who they are, just don't give a rat's ass what they're up to.

I know sort of what they look like, but don't know much of anything beyond that. I think one of them got married. There are a few of them.

You can put a whole lot of folks under that same umbrella, glatt. Beiber, Gaga, American Idol, Survivor, etc. bleh.


Actually, I'll go with current Reality TV shows as a genre.

do not want.

to know.

Whysomean? Whysomean to glatt?

that's not very nice dana. specially to glatt.

And....why don't you say what you told me to his face, now that we're all here?

why isn't there one of these things in our alphabetAttachment 36932 I bet I could use it.

You have as much right as anyone to modify our alphabet/punctuation.

I, for one, would like to see more frequent use of the interobang.

I did not known about that before !?

The interobang ... if that isn't a porno, it soon will be.

And that is another I'm not going to look up from work.

You could use it here:

What is thatAttachment 36939 some sort of new punctuation.

Yes, as far as i know, I just invented it. I had to use paint.net to make it, as i didn't find it anywhere....

it's for use just as you used it there.... except you should use another one at the end of that sentence.

Or maybe just a regular question mark at the end. The voice does rise a little at the end of the second half, so it does need something other than a period.

What? English isn't hard enough already, Jim?

I'm afraid it's an oxymoron.

... sort of like Chris Mathews on MSNBC:
Mathews asks his guests question, and then keeps on talking.
In more polite company, it would be a "?" and a "."
Or shorthand for: "Sit down and shut up while I answer your question"

say: What is that? Velvet?

that's _________^ where this thing should go. I need a name for it. nothing jumps out at me.

Pausetion mark

Interogawait

Comstion mark?

Cricket.

I love its quitessentially English nature.
I like that it is mysterious and nonsensical and is played by real sportsmen who still stop to have tea. I love that it is played on my local park by the British born Asian boys in the same way lads used to have a kickabout (soccer) in mine.

But I cannot be arsed to learn the rules.

I would rather be baffled by someone's maiden over, the fact they are 57 for 7 and that they are bowling from the gasworks' end (I know what that means in slang though).
It's a mystery and I don't want to rob it of that.

Oh, yeah. I don't know the rules for receiving kicks in football. I was watching the Giant's game Sunday night and the kicks played such an important role in the game and I realized I had no clue. There seem to be at least half a dozen rules governing kicks and receiving them, but damned if I know them.

Sometimes you catch them and run and get tackled. Sometimes you catch them and don't run and you aren't tackled. Sometimes you let them bounce and run close to them with all your buddies surrounding them, but you don't touch them. Sometimes they go beyond the end zone and come up to the 20 after. What else? Oh, if they touch you, the other team can grab them, but not run with them. So freaking complicated. Obviously field position plays a huge role in all the variations. Maybe that's one that I will look up someday.

We were once driving by one of the high schools and saw some kids playing cricket, they were Indians. As with soccer, just becasue we invented it doesn't mean we own it, the colonies are much more keen.

God's knows where they got the bats though..


Oh and Snookie, I know little enough to know that I don't want need or care to know more.

If you know of any Indians who are keen on Cricket, please send them to Adelaide immediately. India are 3-0 down in a four test series, Australia are batting first and are 383/3 (i.e. we are thrashing them) and India had gone to defensive strategies half-way through the first day of what should be a five day test match. They are playing with the expectation of losing.

The last two tests (can go for up to five days, two innings each) were both over in less than three, because India did so poorly Australia didn't even need to bat their second innings.

Ha. Can you tell I'm American? I was thinking feathers instead of dots and wondering why Indians decided to pick up cricket.

Yesterday my mate visited and we were talking crap, as we do.

There was a recent story (did I see it here? Cheeseburger network, maybe?) about a woman with a rare medical condition, essentially she has two vaginas. She has declined a million dollar offer to make a porno.

But this got us thinking, how many co-stars would she need? or rather, be able to accomodate?
V1, V2, anal, oral, one in each hand ... six?
(which is why the seventh dwarf was Grumpy ;) )

We thought there might be problems with access, so we decided the the partners would have to be midget porn stars.

But there might still be difficulties with angles and that, so maybe we need a few midget amputee porn stars.

Are there any? We could have googled it.

And at that point, we decided not to. This was our chosen mystery: how many midget amputee pornstars are there? I may never know.

All of them.

Yeah, our Indians play lacrosse. ;)

Bacon.

Just about everyone seems to love it and think it to be the food of the gods, even folk who no longer eat meat.

I'm happy to leave it untasted, to me it smells like a dead pig's half-burnt, partially decomposed corpse.

Of course - that's what it is.

Rhianne, you write as though you have never tasted bacon. That's unusual unless for religious or moral reasons (and most vegetarians aren't born, but make informed decisions later.)

I'd be interested to know your original reason, if it's something you are willing to share.

I don't eat meat, I don't feel as I have the right to kill just for food, and I although I've no religious beliefs myself I was brought up in a muslim home.

Thank you.
Explained.

don't forget altering the symbols for base ten arithmetic.

no, no, no.

What punctuation mark do you use when the question and the exclamation carry equal weight‽

See ... simple.

‽

Agreed... and Wikipedia says !? is OK too :cool:

Hey, there's a unicode code point for it, so it must be legit.

You've got to kill something for food. That head of lettuce didn't even get a chance to run free.

Just think of all the pigs and chickens that didn't even get a chance at a short happy life because you refused to support them.

It makes me sad.

And next we'll straighten out this calendar mess.

That's my planned presidential campaign platform.

I explained in another thread. I'll do it again if you really want.

Carrot juice is murder. Eat a cow instead.

Support Free Range Lettuce!

Fire fighters - I have no idea what makes these folk tick,
and don't really want to know.

Here's a short, exciting story today about two of them doing their thing
at midnight on the Willamette River in flood stage with all sorts of logs and debris coming down.

(P.S., the pic is summertime with low, warm water levels)


OregonLive.com
Lynne Terry
1/26/12
Portland firefighters risk their lives, rescue man from frigid Willamette River

On the Kindergarten field trip this year, one of the firefighters told me that if you get caught burning your place down for the insurance, and firefighters were called to the scene, you are automatically on the hook for attempted murder charges as well, even if all they did was hose it from the outside. It is considered a given that they risk their lives on every call.

That makes sense since more of them die from heart attacks, and crashes on the way, around here.

Sorry Rhianne. This is just a sensitive topic for me.