Thursday, October 22, 2009

It's all in a name

How in the world did our ancestors get the word period out of menstruation? I mean, I've learned in school that we stop at a period, so why isn't this not applied in life? Why isn't it called comma or semi-colon, since we pause at a certain point in life. I could say, "Girl, yeah I'm on my comma today."
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Are there one fish, then two fish? Are is it two fishes? Doesn't it seem strange that cactus is singular but cacti is plural? I think it should be two cactuses because cacti really sounds like some kind of disease.
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Can somebody, anybody around the world tell me what the heck is gout?
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Who is they? Or should I say, Who are they? I hear it all the time. "They said this, they said that." I just need to know who they are so I can punch them in the lip sometime.
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Who names their precious baby Dick? Is that short for something? I can understand getting Tom out of Thomas, Bill out of William, Dan out of Daniel, Rob out of Robert...but Dick???

Ok I'm done here.

Lovingly yours,


6 comments:

  1. From what I've read: Dick is a nickname for Richard, which began by being shortened to Rich, then Rick, then: Dick.
    Yeah, I don't get that one either.

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  2. You are so funny. I love stopping by for my dose of humor! :-)

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  3. As a kid, you have no choice, but I don't get why a grown man would want to be called that.

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  4. *lol* Super cute! Hubby suffers from gout and it's an annoying and super painful condition. Quite plainly, it's a form of arthritis where uric acid builds up in the joints.

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