Odds and Ends
I figured I would be posting a lot more frequently this summer, but after work I'm just so tired and lazy that nothing gets posted. I've even cracked open blogger a couple times with the intention of writing something up and then I think a nap is a better idea. Or I just fall asleep without even planning it. So today I'm just gonna punch out as many things as I think I remember wanting to post about over the last week or so. This isn't going to be pretty, but it might be long. So feel free to read a bullet point per day and maybe I'll have something new up before you get to the end.
Does anyone know the origin of the word 'odd'? Were things that are strange called odd before numbers were even and odd? What is so odd about every other number anyway? How many question marks can I fit into this bullet point? If numbers were even and odd before strange things were odd who decided that odd was the right word to use? After reading the word 'odd' this many times in one paragraph does it even seem like a real word anymore? Isn't that odd?
All you guys that didn't join the World Cup pool are missing out. Unless of course you were soccer fans before. Then it won't have the same effect, but this pool has made me even more interested in these games. Since I don't actually know who half of the guys on my team are it makes watching the games more fun, because now I have someone to yell at. If it wasn't for this pool would I care that Zlatan Ibrahimovic just missed scoring a goal? Of course not. But since I've got him in my pool I just yelled a string of obscenities at the television. That my friends is what sports are all about.
I went to Chapters yesterday, and in addition to picking up a few of John Sandford's 'Prey' books I also grabbed Fantasyland by Sam Walker. I hadn't heard about it before, but it's all about the insanity that is fantasy sports. So y'know, it's the perfect book for me. Plus I bought Deception Point by Dan Brown a couple of days ago so I should be covered for decent reading material for a while.
Is all the flopping and diving in soccer just 'a part of the game', or do real soccer fans find it as rediculous as I do?
Seriously, who is in charge of Mr. Sub's marketing department? Their commercials are past the point of just being bad. They don't even make sense in any logical mindset. If their idea was to just throw the most rediculous idea they had on television to get people talking about it and get the old word of mouth thing going I guess it's kind of working. Unfortunatly they must've forgotten that Mr. Sub tastes like rotten ass so no one is going to be intrigued enough to actually eat their food.
Now I'll leave you with a top 5 of sorts. In no particular order, here are the 5 funniest musically themed videos I can find on YouTube:
Rollin' With Saget
Hooked On A Feeling
Evolution of Dance
Secret Agent Man
Okay so it turns out I only had four of them. Mad? Go play this game then.
