Weird Thoughts post - It's that time again!
When they named The Flintstones, how did they decide on that?
I mean, okay, the decision to base their name on stones or rocks as opposed to dinosaurs or mammoths or something isn't really a huge mystery; it's set in the Stone Age, and that's not a hard logical leap to make.
But from there...how did they decide on 'Flint'? They could have picked just about any rock name without sounding too outrageous. Granite, shale, quartz, pyrite, zinc, etc...the show could easily have been "The Shalesons" or "The Zincstones".
...which brings me to "-stones". Why end it that way? Why not "-rocks"? "The Flintrocks" isn't such a bad name for a family. Hell, when I was a kid, I lived next door to a family whose last name WAS "Rock"; seriously, no kidding.
Anyway, it just makes me smile a little to picture executives and writers sitting in a boardroom, Chinese food containers all over the place, tossing out these ideas while the CEO growls, "No one is going home until we've given these cavemen a name, dammit!" Heh.
I don't have a long distance provider; I think it's much more accurate to call 'em a long distance dealer.
Something I've found on YouTube quite often: people playing video games. Seriously: people will play video games, record the video and audio from them, and post the result on YouTube.
Now...aside from feeding my nostalgia when a classic game comes up in the mix, what's the point? I mean, is watching other people play video games fun? Seriously? Because there's usually precious little plot, you don't get to participate...so what's the point? You know...in watching someone else have fun?
Oh, sure...sometimes you're watching because someone has posted a stunt of some kind: a secret you didn't know about, a trick that exploits the game engine, completing an entire video game in 30 seconds, that kinna thing. But sometimes it's just, "Look at me! I'm playing a game! Without you! Dig it!"
What's the point?
Y'ever notice how just about everybody on TV or in the movies seems to live in a "Tri-State Area"?
What exactly is meant by "second nature"? Or rather, why is it called that?
Okay, you've gotten used to something new and you no longer consider it remarkable or difficult or unusual in any way...so how is that distinct from what you'd consider first nature, really? Solely because it came afterward? By that standard, everything is second nature: speech, walking, not shitting yourself, eating with utensils, dressing oneself... where is the cut-off between second and first nature? In fact, looking it up, that's exactly right; the dictionary definition is "an acquired habit or tendency in one's character that is so deeply ingrained as to appear automatic".
Why does no one ever actually refer to first nature? Can something graduate from second to first? And for that matter, what is third nature? Something new that still as yet feels unfamiliar? Surely something which is not yet second nature must be third...and if you can graduate from three to two, why not from two to one?
I'm just looking for a little logic and consistency in the language, that's all.
Can a cyclops wink?
If you aren't Japanese, but you draw in that anime/manga style, I could probably happily murder you in your sleep. I'm just sayin'...
In the entire history of the world, has anyone ever been charged with breaking...but not entering?
If nobody has made an "Inspector Gadget" porno, I am deeply disappointed in humanity.
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I mean, okay, the decision to base their name on stones or rocks as opposed to dinosaurs or mammoths or something isn't really a huge mystery; it's set in the Stone Age, and that's not a hard logical leap to make.
But from there...how did they decide on 'Flint'? They could have picked just about any rock name without sounding too outrageous. Granite, shale, quartz, pyrite, zinc, etc...the show could easily have been "The Shalesons" or "The Zincstones".
...which brings me to "-stones". Why end it that way? Why not "-rocks"? "The Flintrocks" isn't such a bad name for a family. Hell, when I was a kid, I lived next door to a family whose last name WAS "Rock"; seriously, no kidding.
Anyway, it just makes me smile a little to picture executives and writers sitting in a boardroom, Chinese food containers all over the place, tossing out these ideas while the CEO growls, "No one is going home until we've given these cavemen a name, dammit!" Heh.
I don't have a long distance provider; I think it's much more accurate to call 'em a long distance dealer.
Something I've found on YouTube quite often: people playing video games. Seriously: people will play video games, record the video and audio from them, and post the result on YouTube.
Now...aside from feeding my nostalgia when a classic game comes up in the mix, what's the point? I mean, is watching other people play video games fun? Seriously? Because there's usually precious little plot, you don't get to participate...so what's the point? You know...in watching someone else have fun?
Oh, sure...sometimes you're watching because someone has posted a stunt of some kind: a secret you didn't know about, a trick that exploits the game engine, completing an entire video game in 30 seconds, that kinna thing. But sometimes it's just, "Look at me! I'm playing a game! Without you! Dig it!"
What's the point?
Y'ever notice how just about everybody on TV or in the movies seems to live in a "Tri-State Area"?
What exactly is meant by "second nature"? Or rather, why is it called that?
Okay, you've gotten used to something new and you no longer consider it remarkable or difficult or unusual in any way...so how is that distinct from what you'd consider first nature, really? Solely because it came afterward? By that standard, everything is second nature: speech, walking, not shitting yourself, eating with utensils, dressing oneself... where is the cut-off between second and first nature? In fact, looking it up, that's exactly right; the dictionary definition is "an acquired habit or tendency in one's character that is so deeply ingrained as to appear automatic".
Why does no one ever actually refer to first nature? Can something graduate from second to first? And for that matter, what is third nature? Something new that still as yet feels unfamiliar? Surely something which is not yet second nature must be third...and if you can graduate from three to two, why not from two to one?
I'm just looking for a little logic and consistency in the language, that's all.
Can a cyclops wink?
If you aren't Japanese, but you draw in that anime/manga style, I could probably happily murder you in your sleep. I'm just sayin'...
In the entire history of the world, has anyone ever been charged with breaking...but not entering?
If nobody has made an "Inspector Gadget" porno, I am deeply disappointed in humanity.
Words I Really Hate
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