Live Studio Audiences

T.V. shows is a type of entertainment in which there can be a live studio audience. Sports and theatre productions also have them. Now what if they were in other things? What if people had to perform their jobs daily in front of a crowd. If the crowd becomes negative then it can hurt your work, but if it stays positive you could perform quite well.

1. Surgeons.
What if surgeons had to perform while a crowd was cheering them on? They would perform at their all time best because they wouldn't want to let down their fans. If they started booing though it could harmful to the patient. They could be taken out of "the zone" and start making mistakes.

2. Parents
What if parents had to discipline their children in front of a crowd of people. Think of the reactions that would get. Cries of hysteria based upon the severity.

3. (Personal Fav) Accountants
"Oh you add those numbers!"
*chants* Do those taxes

Those are that I have for now, but I might add on later in a different post.

Christmas

Christmas is here, and today is the day for giving and recieving gifts. I personally felt great joy when my parents both opened up their gifts and great smiles grew across their faces.

Another part of my day, that made me happy, was when I opened one of my gifts from Santa. I have a 6th sense where I can guess what my gifts are before I open them, and I have a history of being correct. This time however I had no clue. It was a box shape, but it hade grooves and indents that left me baffled. This left me with no choice but to just open it up. Inside was a 1978 Pele lunchbox with thermos. I was overcome with joy. I had seen this lunchbox at an antique store over the summer, but I couldn't bring myself to buy it.

As cliche as it sounds I enjoyed giving gifts more than I did recieving. However, the best quote all day was by my 8 year old sister.

"Giving gifts is cool...but recieving is better."-Madie

The dark plague game!

You know what game/nursery rhyme that you don't hear as much any more? Ring around the rosy. That game was a classic. I can remember the whole holding hands and then walking in a circle and falling down at the end in a classic roar of laughter. It was a great time.

These days however you never see that game played anymore. Yes, there is relationship between the black plague and the game. However, I believe that this game is what made kids tougher. Kids these days are running around like a bunch of pansies. They need to be toughened up. With all these people decided hey those toys might not be as safe as we previously thought. The rest of us played with those toys and turned out just fine. It is because of those toys, that we ended up how we did.

Bottom Line: Kids these days need to play ring around the rosy.

Christmas Carols

I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of the same old christmas songs. The same songs have been sung for hundreds of years, and no one has come up with a new one?
"Well you can't mess with a classic."
Wrong! You can very well mess with a classic. If you couldn't then there wouldn't be any remakes that would make use realize how great or crappy the original was.

Now, I don't have a huge problem with the songs. They can be great on some occassions. However, I feel that with the thousands of creative song writers in the world that someone could come up with a catchy song. Something new and creative that would bring together the elements of today's world and combine them with the classic festive christmas feeling.

In due time I hope a song writer or aspiring singer accepts the challenge of a new christmas song that can rival those of the classics.

Law of Crumbs

There is a law that says you can't destroy or create matter. That law doesn't apply to crumbs. For instance when you have a crumb, and you cut it in half what happens? You have two crumbs. WHAT?!?!?! You just created matter. For some odd reason, you can not have half a crumb. Which is why, when you have toast your plate is littered with pieces of toast that have fallen off (crumbs).

Bottom Line: You have the power to create, don't waste it.

Pt. 4 The Phrases Continue.

We are currently on our second straight day out of school due to snow. I don't know if everyone in my family will survive. Someone may be murdered. Just kidding

So far this week we have looked at a number of phrases. All of them ranging in how obvious it is that they're ridiculous. Today's phrase that I am going to analyze is, "(to) feel like a million dollars".

Woman: "Do you like this dress?"
Husband who doesn't want to argue no matter how ugly the dress is: "You must feel like a million dollars you look so good."


Now, according to Dictionary.com "feel: to have a sensation of being". To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever become a million dollars. They have never physically become a large sum of currency. So, how do they know what a million dollar feels like?

My best guess at what a million dollars feels like is grimy. Have you ever thought about how many people touch money? Money is one of the dirtiest things in the world, and not just because it can lead to corruption. You could feel like a million dollars if you had just rolled around in the mud, and there were are large amount of people touching you while you did this.

Bottom Line: The only way to feel like a million dollars is to go to a McDonalds playhouse that has a ball pit. Once there wait until the busiest part of the day and go sit in the ball pit. Before long, there will a large number of children who just got done eating and have extremely dirty hands. They will be climbing all over you for their own amusement. Not fun.

Phrases Week! Pt. 3

Cat got your tongue? Seriously? I don't even feel like I have to write out the whole thing. I own two cats. Very energetic felines, and yet I have never come close to losing my tongue to one of them.

Example

Person 1: *silence*
Person 2: Cat got your tongue?


Is this like some common thing somewhere? Where cats eat peoples tongues? I can't even imagine how this one started.

Bottom Line: Cats don't eat the tongues out of your month.

Phrases Pt. 2. Your back?

A phrase that people use all the time, that I absolutely can't stand and I point out the flaws in this phrase every time I hear, is, "behind your back."

"I can't believe she said that behind your back!"


Have you ever taken Anatomy? Or, perhaps looked in the mirror? Your back is obviously the part of your body on your backside from your shoulders down to the top of your butt. I can not stand it when people say,"She said that behind my back. I wish she would just say it to my face." Or any version of that sentence.

The keyword in the phrase that makes it absolutely ridiculous is behind. Now, when you use the word behind in reference to your body you are speaking about something that is no visible or not in front of you. But, if something is going on behind you then it would technically be called in FRONT of your back.

Behind your back indicates that the person is saying this stuff to your face. So, when someone says that wishes that they wouldn't say it behind their back and instead would appreciate them saying it to their face they are contradicting themselves. I have received many looks from people when they mention something that is going on behind their back and I just laugh. This is probably my biggest pet peeve with the English language.

Bottom line: I hate it when people say bad things about me when I am not around. (easy fix)

Phrases Week! Pt.1

This week I will posting a couple of blogs. They will all focus on phrases that are used, that in all honesty make no sense. But, no one ever takes the time to think, "Hey, maybe I shouldn't fit in with the crowd and make sense."


The first phrase this week is, "piece of cake". Now traditionally this is used to describe something as easy.

"What did you think of that math test?"
"It was a piece of cake."


Really? How many of you have made a cake? It's not like you just pop it into the oven. You do have to combine the correct amount of all the ingrediants together. Which instantly makes it harder than somethings. I would understand the phrase, "easy as toast." Toast is simple. Get the piece of bread, place it in the toaster, select the color you want to toast to come out (the dial), and finally take the toast out.

Another phrase that is similar to "a piece of cake" is "easy as pie". That only makes sense if you are eating the pie. And that isn't always easy. Pies can be messy. The filling often falls onto the plate, and if you are using plastic silverware the problem becomes more difficult. The filling always falls off the silverware and makes it ten times harder to accomplish the goal of eating the the pie.

Bottom line: Eating pie, and making toast are a piece of cake.