Toothpicks?? You have some ‘splaining to do, Lucy!
Hey… thanks for all the lovely talkbacks… apparently, I need to explain the toothpick line. Which, baffles me… I thought it was common idiom. Evidently, this is not so. Could be that it is just a Southern thing or maybe even just a family thing? But my daddy used to say when we would get so tired that our eyelids wouldn’t stay open that we needed toothpicks to hold them up. Leave it to a Southern Man to find yet another use for the things. So, go out and impress your friends with your newly acquired Southern slang! “Wow, you could use a few toothpicks!” It might go over especially well if you use your line after lunch!
Now… onto “slogging“. It is a “publishing” term. Or at least all my friends in the book word use it religiously when referring to new books. Typically said: shlogging… as in, “how many pages did you have to schlog through to get to the good part?” But “slogging” rhymes so much better with “blogging.” Not to mention you don’t spit as much when you say it that way. All around far more sanitary. And now, I’m officially a dweeb.
And last but not least… I think… the nifty little icon in the post below. That was one of those really clever posts I never got around to writing but accidentally posted. OOPS. As it turns out, you can now blog by mobile phone and this cool icon will appear to let the world know your post was so important that it couldn’t wait! Never mind that you caused a minor fender bender and backed up the expressway during rush hour using your mobile phone. Gives new meaning to the phrase, “Phoning it in!” I find this really funny. Since I just copied the code, I too can look like I have something important to say(despite the fact I don’t have a cell phone.) Which, in the long run, makes my “non-post” a bit ironic. Yeah, I meant to do that.
