Pumpkins, Word Unleashed, Parking

By On October 13, 2008 · 20 Comments · In Airplanes, Music, Religion

Now that the economy is all fixed, we can worry about something I learned today – pumpkins are vegetables. This freaks me out for some reason.

I guess because you’d never actually eat a pumpkin, except for pumpkin pie, which isn’t even real pumpkins, and pumpkin seeds, which don’t count, because they aren’t even pumpkins yet.

Anyway, my love of this Texas region continues, because I will never tire of parking as you see here.

(That’s my car on the the right…ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE STREET. LEGALLY.

And for those of you wondering, I drive an SUV only because I hate the environment. Before stopping there, I actually drove right through an entire forest – I killed at least 30 young trees.)

Much as I love that, once again hardcore religious radio has tweaked me just right.

I heard the most hardcore of hardcore yesterday morning the form of something called The Word Unleashed.

They’re going to slaughter you with the Bible. I mean, it’s gonna get unleashed on you.

Anyway, this guy went on for about 30 minutes on why women, because it says to in the Bible, must “submit to, obey, and worship” their husbands, no matter what.

He really said this – he said even if your husband is lazy, cruel, and makes horrible, irresponsible decisions, you must do this.

Or, y’know…well, he didn’t really have an answer. Just that the Bible says so.

If you’re ever having one of those “stupid days”, wherein you’re just not feeling that smart, I highly encourage you to go check out some of these broadcasts. Guaranteed to reaffirm your intelligence.

I had written a song about what I thought about airplanes this morning, but it wasn’t the best song I’d written to date, so I deleted it. It would’ve gone in this space.

(By the way, about the economy…it’s kinda like I said. Just say it’s okay and suddenly it is. That’s what happens when money isn’t backed by anything tangible anymore other than hard drives and 10011100111s.)

 
  • http://AlanaG.com AlanaG

    I answered “pumpkin” in the Vegetable Trivia Game. Duh!

  • http://AlanaG.com Alana G

    I answered “pumpkin” in the Vegetable Trivia Game. Duh!

  • pumpkin eateration front

    don’t eat pumpkins? roast pumpkin is without doubt one of the finest things this universe has to offer.

  • pumpkin eateration front

    don’t eat pumpkins? roast pumpkin is without doubt one of the finest things this universe has to offer.

  • http://robgokee.com Rob Gokee

    Can’t we just print more money when we run out?

    Sigh. All this government talk give me headaches.

  • http://www.filmcomposeratlarge.com Rob Gokee

    Can’t we just print more money when we run out?

    Sigh. All this government talk give me headaches.

  • http://robgokee.com Rob Gokee

    You know what, I want my voting card back. I changed my mind, I don’t want to vote anymore.

  • http://www.filmcomposeratlarge.com Rob Gokee

    You know what, I want my voting card back. I changed my mind, I don’t want to vote anymore.

  • http://www.wishrules.blogspot.com Wish

    If we printed more money it would just lower the value of the money we have. One of the quickest, easiest ways to terrorize a country is to devalue its currency.

    I’m voting because I’m tired of old people making bad decisions and I encourage you to vote for the same reason. Old people are the reason why we are where we are today.

  • http://www.wishrules.blogspot.com Wish

    If we printed more money it would just lower the value of the money we have. One of the quickest, easiest ways to terrorize a country is to devalue its currency.

    I’m voting because I’m tired of old people making bad decisions and I encourage you to vote for the same reason. Old people are the reason why we are where we are today.

  • admin

    I’m not an advocate for printing more money, but let’s say I am a really good hacker, and break in and drop a billion dollars into my account. Clearly this money doesn’t actually exist in paper form, as most money doesn’t. What is the effect?

  • admin

    I’m not an advocate for printing more money, but let’s say I am a really good hacker, and break in and drop a billion dollars into my account. Clearly this money doesn’t actually exist in paper form, as most money doesn’t. What is the effect?

  • http://www.wishrules.blogspot.com Wish

    I believe, and I’m not positive, that it would have the same effect as if you had 1,000,000 of counterfeit paper money and started spending it all over town. Whether it’s fake or real, it’s still in the marketplace and forcing the value of real money to go down. If you don’t spend those ‘billions’ then it doesn’t matter until they catch you I would guess. With the way you are able to pay electronically today spending $10 electronically would be the equivalent of spending $10 in paper money. If you wanted to overthrow a government or attack an economy this is one way to do it.

    From wikipedia:

    Modern counterfeiting begins with paper money. Nations have used counterfeiting as a means of warfare. The idea is to overflow the enemy’s economy with fake bank notes, so that the real value of the money plummets. Great Britain did this during the Revolutionary War to reduce the value of the Continental Dollar. Although this tactic was also employed by the United States during the American Civil War, the fake Confederate currency it produced was of superior quality to the real thing

    Effect on society
    Some of the ill-effects that counterfeit money has on society are:[4][5]

    Reduction in the value of real money
    Increase in prices (inflation) due to more money getting circulated in the economy – an unauthorized artificial increase in the money supply
    Decrease in the acceptability (satisfactoriness) of money – payees may demand electronic transfers of real money
    Companies are not reimbursed for counterfeits. This forces them to increase prices of commodities

  • http://www.wishrules.blogspot.com Wish

    I believe, and I’m not positive, that it would have the same effect as if you had 1,000,000 of counterfeit paper money and started spending it all over town. Whether it’s fake or real, it’s still in the marketplace and forcing the value of real money to go down. If you don’t spend those ‘billions’ then it doesn’t matter until they catch you I would guess. With the way you are able to pay electronically today spending $10 electronically would be the equivalent of spending $10 in paper money. If you wanted to overthrow a government or attack an economy this is one way to do it.

    From wikipedia:

    Modern counterfeiting begins with paper money. Nations have used counterfeiting as a means of warfare. The idea is to overflow the enemy’s economy with fake bank notes, so that the real value of the money plummets. Great Britain did this during the Revolutionary War to reduce the value of the Continental Dollar. Although this tactic was also employed by the United States during the American Civil War, the fake Confederate currency it produced was of superior quality to the real thing

    Effect on society
    Some of the ill-effects that counterfeit money has on society are:[4][5]

    Reduction in the value of real money
    Increase in prices (inflation) due to more money getting circulated in the economy – an unauthorized artificial increase in the money supply
    Decrease in the acceptability (satisfactoriness) of money – payees may demand electronic transfers of real money
    Companies are not reimbursed for counterfeits. This forces them to increase prices of commodities

  • http://robgokee.com Rob Gokee

    For the record, I’m fully aware you can’t print more money to solve the problem, I wanted to print some sarcastic money.

    Also, money=terrorism does not have me worrying and stockpiling guns for the attack.

    Unless I’m living in Texas at the time, in which case I’ll already own guns of varying types, and I’ll use one to horsejack Pencils and ride into the mountains.

    Sorry Brian.

  • http://www.filmcomposeratlarge.com Rob Gokee

    For the record, I’m fully aware you can’t print more money to solve the problem, I wanted to print some sarcastic money.

    Also, money=terrorism does not have me worrying and stockpiling guns for the attack.

    Unless I’m living in Texas at the time, in which case I’ll already own guns of varying types, and I’ll use one to horsejack Pencils and ride into the mountains.

    Sorry Brian.

  • Mayor Ticklepants

    I think Pencils has already been made into glue.

  • Mayor Ticklepants

    I think Pencils has already been made into glue.

  • admin

    Pencils went on a horsey-date over the weekend. I haven’t seen him since Friday.

  • admin

    Pencils went on a horsey-date over the weekend. I haven’t seen him since Friday.