WELCOME to Wednesday, February 16, 2010. Creative Writing…..

BEING CREATIVE WITH TROUBLESOME KIN

You are working on your family genealogy and for sake of example, let’s say that your great-great uncle, Remus Starr, a fellow lacking in character, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889.

A cousin has supplied you with the only known photograph of Remus, showing him standing on the gallows. On the back of the picture are the words:

“Remus Starr: Horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison, 1885. Escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged, 1889.”

Pretty grim situation, right? But let’s revise things a bit. We simply crop the picture, scan in an enlarged image and edit it with image processing software so that all that is seen is a head shot.

Next, we rewrite the text:  “Remus Starr was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory. His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad.

Beginning in 1885, he devoted several years of his life to service at a government facility, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed.”  Hey I’m just saying!  Have a wonderful Wednesday people and whatever you do, don’t forget to LAUGH IT UP! Peace I am outta here, Eucman! 

q u o t e s o f t h e d a y

“Washington, D.C. is updating its traffic cameras to enforce
traffic laws. How about enforcing bribery and corruption
laws?” -Jay Leno

“The number of shark attacks around the world increased by
25 percent. With the economy like it is, more and more
sharks are turning to crime.” -Jimmy Kimmel

“The whole world has Justin Bieber fever. It’s what happens
whenever a pop frenzy becomes a disease. There was also
Beatle Mania, the Miley Cyrus Virus, and the Hasselhoff
Cough.” -Craig Ferguson

“Hope is only the love of life.”
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the
philosopher’s stone.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
– Betty Friedan

G u a r a n t e e d t o m a k e y o u l a u g h
Every day a peddler pulled his cart of wool from his home to the village market. It was a long trip. He had to travel around the perimeter of a large lake that was owned by the town tycoon, a modern-day scrooge. One day during the winter the lake frozen over. The peddler realized that he could cut off two miles from his trip if he crossed over the lake. He was spotted halfway across the lake by the tycoon. Scrooge came racing out of his mansion and screamed at the peddler, “I’ll be darned if I let anyone pull the wool over my ice!”
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Tuesday’s Movie Trivia of the day! ‘How much movie trivia can you answer? ‘I don’t know what to do. Something has happened to me and I’m very lost. And it doesn’t stop. It’s not getting better. I’m not getting better.’

Answer: ‘Waking The Dead’
The wonderful Keith Gordon directed this movie, which stars Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelley, who previously starred together in, ‘Inventing The Abbotts’. Based on the novel by Scott Spencer who also wrote the novel ‘Endless Love’ (the Brooke Shields movie is terrible), which is another story of obsession and the madness of love.
  
Wednesday’s Movie Trivia of the day! ‘How much movie trivia can you answer? What movie is this quote from????‘Oh, I see. With all the poor people in this city, who wanted only to live and were viciously murdered, you have the nerve to sit here, wanting to die and not go through with it? You make me sick!’
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Tuesday’s Crazy Song Definitions, This quiz features popular songs from 2000 -2002, try and identify which song or which artist.“You left without saying goodbye, although I’m sure you tried. You call the house from time to time to make sure we’re alive, but you weren’t there right when I needed you the most.”   

Answer: Nickelback
From “Too Bad”, a song about people ignoring the problems with divorce.

Wednesday’s Crazy Song Definitions, This quiz features popular songs from 2000-2002 try and identify which song or which artist.“Sometimes I shave my legs and sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I comb my hair and sometimes I won’t. Depends on how the wind blows, I might even paint my toes. It really just depends on whatever feels good in my soul.”

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Tuesday’s Quizzler is..

The following words share a characteristic. Which two words from the second group can be added to the first group and what is the characteristic they share?

Group #1:
NOW, CRAM, ELVES, TALE, TRAIN, LATE, HOW

Group #2:
VAIN, CRIME, PEAR, LAUNCH, WING, WILT

ANSWER: PEAR and WING are the words that can be moved as they, like all the words in group #1, can be made into new words by adding an “S” at the beginning.

SNOW, SCRAM, SELVES, STALE, STRAIN, SLATE, SHOW, and, SPEAR, SWING

Wednesday’s Quizzler is…  

This teaser is in honor of man’s quest to quench his thirst with non-alcoholic beverages. Can you figure out what drinks are depicted below?

1. Joint between thigh and lower leg + having great elevation + yielding readily to pressure + swallowing liquid contents.

2. A practitioner of medicine + spicy hot pod like fruit that grows on plants.

3. Dried and powdered rhizome used as spice + another name for beer.

4. Underground portion of a plant + another name for ale.

5. A natural elevation of the earth’s surface having considerable mass and a height greater than that of a hill + water droplets condensed from the air.

6. A powder made from cacao seeds + tropical African evergreen plant having reddish fragrant nutlike seeds. 

 TODAY’S QUIZZMASTER OF THE DAY AWARD GOES TO MS. ANDREA L. BANKS! GREAT JOB ANDREA!

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