Comments on: Oh, the places you’ll have been

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:35:00 +0000

So are you ever going to post anything new? The masses are waiting to be entertained!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 05 May 2006 21:37:00 +0000

A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted . . . by repeated action from one mind to another.

[Shortening of mimeme, from Greek mim?ma, something imitated, from mimeisthai, to imitate.]

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 02 May 2006 23:28:00 +0000

I think “meme” is kinda silly, too. Is it the French word for “same,” or some other word entirely? What’s its origin?

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:17:00 +0000

I fear I must retract my earlier statement. You see, there are occasions when it is necessary to xelf (darn it!). Why, just yesterday, I super-flexed, then ultimate-flexed, and then, just for good measure, I threw in another flex, and what do you know, boom, I over-fleeeEEEEE

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:29:00 +0000

Idaho, once.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:09:00 +0000

Nope (although I agree that’s a logical assumption). Nonstop international out of Atlanta.

By: John

John — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:02:00 +0000

Surely you must have been on the ground in New York or Boston on your way to Europe, right?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:43:00 +0000

From what I’m told, 20 minutes on a plane within shouting distance of the border is about the pinnacle of the Nebraska experience. I’d actually forgotten about the two full days in Valparaiso; I was apologetic about claiming Indiana based on driving through three times on my way to (once) and from (twice) Michigan. Having been reminded of my Valpo trip, I’m somewhat more sanguine about Indiana. Other than Nebraska, I’ve spent at least one night in all the highlighted states. Neat.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:40:00 +0000

So you're apologetic about claiming all of Indiana on the basis of two full days in Valparaiso, but 20 minutes on a plane within shouting distance of the border is good enough for Nebraska?

Interesting.

I think that animal shelter was near Silver Dollar City in Missouri. I don't know if they have animals in Nebraska.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:20:00 +0000

So I was 3 for 4 on my “I think I haven’t…”‘s. Post now edited to include good ol’ Nebraska (the site’s running very slowly this morning for some reason, though); the Omaha airport counts, I say. So after this summer I’ll have a full North-South columhn from Texas to North Dakota; heady stuff.

Where was the drive-through animal shelter place we went to lo those many years ago? I thought that was in Nebraska somewhere.