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WEDNESDAY HODGEPODGE

our hostess, Joyce, has these questions for us this week:

1. Lake Superior University has once again published a list of words/phrases they think should be banished from the Queen's English...here's the list for 2013-

fiscal cliff, kick the can down the road, double down, job creators/creation, passion/passionate, yolo (an acronym for you only live once), spoiler alert, bucket list, trending, superfood, boneless wings, and guru

Which of these words/phrases would you most like to see banished from everyday speech and why? Well, from these you listed, I would have to say I would like to see 'yolo' banished!! Why? 'Cause I think acronyms are for the lazy ones...except for NASA, I like the sound of that. [insert wink] Oh, and another acronym is BOLO....I can never remember what that represents..."Be on the Look Out". Alrighty then.

2. When was the last time you rode a train? Where did you go? Way back, long ago...on a narrow gauge train in the San Juan Mountains...probably '77 or '78. Through rough terrain and belly buttons filled with coal soot! But, it was a fun experience to look out the side window of the train car and see way below...the rolling, rushing, river!! Gorgeous country, the San Juan Mountains. We headed to a one time booming silver mining town, Silverton Colorado. I posted about the trip, HERE and HERE

3. Bagels-yay or nay? Favorite 'flavor'? Favorite topping? A big 'yay' for me....my favorite is toasted onion topped with poppy seeds. And of course, cream cheese to top it off.

4. 'Tis the season of awards shows...if you could star in a movie already made which one would you choose? Oh heavens to betsy, I love movies, so this would be nigh-on to impossible to choose just one to 'star' in. But since I answered the 2nd question with the train ride to Silverton....Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was filmed there [the train robberies]....I could see myself being Etta Place, [Robert Redford's love interest - in history and the movie]. Co-starring with Robert Redford AND Paul Newman. Ya, dream on...."hehehe, you keep thinking Butch, that's what you're good at."

[photo use courtesy of google search]

5. The move towards single gender classrooms has been making the news in recent months....what say you? Do you think kids perform better if separated by gender and are taught differently or is that discrimination? If you're a parent, is this something you'd support in regard to your own children? Oh please, don't get me started on 'what society thinks is best for my kids'!!! I abhor the government [be it country or school boards] trying to dictate.

6. What's your favorite thing about staying in a hotel? Everything. No cleaning, no cooking, ...room service...you name it.

7. Do you have a 'word' for 2013? What's the story behind your choice? Hexenbiest (HEK-sən-beest; pl: -biester Germ. Hexe "witch" + Biest "beast") From the series GRIMM --- read more [but be forewarned, it isn't pretty!]

8. Insert your own random thought here. A couple of things that kinda coincide with the hodgepodge questions for this week: First: Here is a word generator that was fun to use, using a root word to make up new words: GENERATOR Second: I would not need to read the script for the movie of my choice in #4...I know it by heart; I can mouth the words for each character! And it's so my all-time favorite western movie, I did a caricature of the two long ago, and it's framed and has a place on our wall: Butch and Sundance--

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