The Right side of wrong and the wrong side of Right

When you find yourself on the wrong side of believable ...are you not also at the Right side of wrong, while also at the wrong side of Right?

History of the Mackenzie clans (1157 AD -1894 AD)

"History of the Mackenzies" 1894 (Public Domain)
by: Alexander Mackenzie

For and dedicated to: Ms. Caroline Heather Mackenzie

HTML ~ Adobe PDF ~ Word DOC

Enjoy!
RK

Light the Way!

'Tis better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness...

Positive + Creative = Wins

Positive thinking produces winners.
Creative thinking produces wins.

Knowledge vs Love

Knowledge puffs up.
Love builds up.

Too much knowledge destroys beauty.

Synchronicity of Indeterminancy & Mediocrity!

It occurs whenever a composer leaves whole sections and specific elements of a solo musical performance to the discretion of a poor performer. Hence, if you play the violin with a Chamber Orchestra, and there's a performer seated next to you (one who plays THAT badly), you would know (all too well) JUST what is meant by: "the Synchronicity of Indeterminancy & Mediocrity"!

Me Thinks that "Miss Mid-America 1977", AKA "The Oswego-Girl" ...knows!

Oxymora (decomposing compositions)

Ever notice how easily difficult it is (simply impossible) to write seriously funny oxymorons? The only choice for me was to ask for help from a paid volunteer at the library. So, I set out to decompose my Oxymora composition into original copy from some obviously obscure document that was once found missing twice amongst my personal public papers -- almost exactly one day ago, yesterday!

Whew!

(Marketing Insults) on Father Day?

"FATHER'S DAY 2007"
(this year it's on the 17th of June)

EVERY DAY is FATHER DAY (here):
http://www.kuhmann.com/Dads/index.htm

Let's fire all of the GUILTY Advertising Agencies! I assert that we should also DUMP their lame-ass, anti-male TV & magazine Ads! Who of (all thinking people) does not become sick-to-one's-stomach due to their BUZZ? I refer to the trendy, plethora of INSULT-THE-MEN slants that appear in advertising today!

I just hate that garbage and I for one, won't buy ANY products from the companies that use those strategies!

Or, haven't you noticed how many Ads demean "men" (males in general, and of all ages)? They make males out to be total "nincompoops" (silly, foolish, or stupid persons). And while that SLANDER is going down, all the females who appear in the Ads (also, of all ages) ...and everywhere within earshot -- busily roll their eyes while looking skyward -- acting as though they're the gloating "superior" race of "men"? Did they accept PAY to do that? Whoa!

Reverse gender-bias really does SELL! So, I suppose the terms: "ex-boyfriend", "ex-fiancé", and "ex-husband" qualify me as, "pre-owned" ...and thus "on sale", "a great deal" -- just a few less "MPG", at an affordable "APR", and at a "Mfgrs" price below "invoice"?

Do you see what I mean?

And while I'm on the subject of "STUPID" stuff -- let's add these terms to a list of "ban-em-forever", all-American buzzwords:

ARMED ROBBERY/DRUG DEAL GONE BAD: From the news reports. What degree of "bad" don't we understand? -- "After it stopped going well and good?"

ASK YOUR DOCTOR: The chewable-vitamin, morphine-of-marketing! -- "Ask your doctor if 'fill in the blank' is right for you! Heck, just take one and see if it makes you 'fill in the blank' or get deathly ill." -- "I don't think my doctor would appreciate my calling him after seeing a TV ad." I suggest that you ask your attorney to talk to 'the manufacturer' -- about all their disclaimers -- with reference to all the side-effects -- (spoken) "as-fast-as-they-can-speak".

AWESOME: Given a one-year moratorium in the mid-80's, when the Unicorn Hunters banished it ...during which it is to be rehabilitated until it means 'fear mingled with admiration or reverence' -- a feeling produced by something majestic." I say that there's no hope and it's time for "the full banishment. "The kind of tennis shoes you wear, no matter how clumsy, and that don't fit the majestic design of the word." -- "That a mop, a deodorant or a dating service can be called 'awesome' demonstrates the limited vocabulary of the country's copywriters." -- "Overused and meaningless.' My mother was hit by a car.' Awesome. 'I just got my college degree in English.' Awesome."

BOASTS: See classified advertisements for houses, as in "master bedroom boasts his-and-her fireplaces -- "It's never 'bathroom apologizes for cracked linoleum,' or 'kitchen laments pathetic placement of electrical outlets.'"

CHIPOTLE: Smoked dry over medium heat. -- "Not so long ago, ...a roasted jalapeno. Now we have a 'chipotle' burrito with 'chipotle' marinated meat, 'chipotle' peppers, sprinkled with a 'chipotle' seasoning and smothered in a 'chipotle' sauce. Time to give this word an extended rest."

COMBINED CELEBRITY NAMES: Celebrity "duos" of yore, e.g. "BogCall" (Bogart & Bacall), "Lardy" (Laurel & Hardy), and "CheeChong" (Cheech & Chong) just got lucky. "It's bad enough that celebrities have to be the top news stories. Now we've given them obnoxious names such as 'Bragelina,' 'TomKat' and 'Bennifer.'" -- "It's so annoying, idiotic and so lame and pathetic that it's 'lam-e-thetic.' "

GITMO: US military shorthand, for a base in Cuba -- the term drives a wedge wider than a split infinitive. "When did the notorious Guantanamo Bay Naval Base change to 'Gitmo', a word that conjures up an image of a bug-eyed, fluffy character in a kid-movie?"

GONE/WENT MISSING: It makes 'missing' sound like a place you can visit, such as the 'Poconos'. Is the person missing, or not? "She went there but maybe she came back. 'Is missing', or 'was missing' -- would serve us better."

HEALTHY FOOD: Point of view is everything. -- Someone told me, that the tuna steak the person had for lunch "sounded healthy." The reply: "If my lunch were healthy, it would still be swimming in a salt sea somewhere. But grilled, and nestled on salad greens, it's 'healthful' "?

i-ANYTHING: A replacement - 'e-Anything' made the list a few years ago. -- "Tech companies everywhere have picked this apple to the core." -- "Turn on…tune in…and drop out." -- "Banish any word that starts with it. I am just tired of it. It's getting old, like me."

NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS: Heard in movie advertisements. Where can we see that, again? "How often do movies premiere in Laundromats or other places besides theaters? I know that when I want to see a movie I think about going to a shoe store."

PWN or PWNED: Thr styff of lemgendz: Gamer defeats gamer, types in "I pwn you" rather than I OWN you. "This word is just an overly used Internet typo. It has been overused to the point that people who play online games are using it as part of their everyday speech."

SEARCH: Quasi-anachronism. Placed on one-year moratorium. -- "Might as well banish it. The word has been replaced by the verb, 'to Google.' "

TRUTHINESS: This word, popularized by 'The Colbert Report' and exalted by the American Dialectic Society's Word of the Year in 2005, has been used up. "What used to ring true is getting all the truth wrung out of it."

UNDOCUMENTED ALIEN: If they haven't followed the law to get here, they are by definition 'illegal.' -- "It's like saying a drug dealer is an 'undocumented pharmacist.' "

WE'RE PREGNANT: Grounded for nine months? -- "Were men feeling left out of the whole morning sickness/huge belly/labor experience? You may both be expecting, but only one of you is pregnant." -- "I'm sure any woman who has given birth will tell you that 'WE' did not deliver the baby." Although I might look like it ...if I don't lose some weight soon.

Just say no (as in "denial"). Me Thinks,
RK

No Brainer!

Ever notice how those who, ardently claim that something or other is a ..." NO BRAINER!"

That they, themselves do not seem to be endowed with one?
RK

Truth vs Myths

To proliferate a myth as truth, is to become an author of the lie.

Me Thinks
Copyright ©2007 - Robert C KUHMANN - All Rights Reserved.

Washing Tonne Dee Sea

Ought we not rename "Washington DC" as "Washington Wanna Be"?
How many people are now running for the replace "GW" job?

It's not because ya' wanna, that WE THE PEOPLE, would ya' !
And doncha' ever forget it!

VETO, schmeeto! Bring our weary troops home ...
Allow the Iraqi people to create their own Peace.

Me Thinks.

Who R U ?

Be who you is, not who you ain't, 'cause if you is who you ain't, you ain't who you ARE!

Eco Speak

Protect the PLANET by living so close to NATURE ...as to smell its b.r.e.a.t.h...

Dream Wishings

A dream, is a wish that your heart makes.

Art of Love ~ Love as Art

If LOVE is ART, then I would wish to be both the Master, and the Masterpiece... the Composer, and the Composition.

Me Thinks.

Copyright ©2007 - Robert C KUHMANN - All Rights Reserved.

Plusses & Minusses

Positives build to pave a way. Negatives destroy the very pathway.

Me Thinks.

Defined You

You? It's what you do, that defines you.

Me Thinks.

Aromatic Cuisinette

Garlic puts zippie inside the "tummie" and a fire within one's "doo-dah"!

Thinga Ma BLOG

What follows are the kinds of things that NOBODY really needs or wants to know, but there's always someone "out there" who does know -- and who wants to tell all, to YOU!

(Kinda scary eh?)

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions! What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. There is a city called Rome on every continent. It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland! Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious Admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, as you breathe! The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet! Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! The of the people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it. On average, a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute. More people are killed each year from bee-stings than from snake-bites. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. Earth is the only planet not named after a god. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find food! Dolphins sleep with one eye open! It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old! The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness -- she declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not. Slugs have 4 noses. Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! The average person laughs 10 times a day! An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

But -- one of these AMAZING (but entirely useless facts) is false. Do you know which one?

Leave a COMMENT and I shall tell.
Spirit

In the Absense of Trust!

When there is no Trust, there is no degree of Predictability.
When there is no Trust, there is no Agreement.
When there is no Trust, there can be no Peace.
When there is no Trust, there is no Relationship.
When there is no Trust, there is no Friendship.
When there is no Trust, there is no Family.
When there is no Trust, there is Jealousy.
When there is no Trust, there is no Play.
When there is no Trust, there can be no Work.
When there is no Trust, there can be no Business.
When there is no Trust, there can be no Economy.
When there is no Trust, there can be no Society worth living in.
When there is no Trust, there is little Hope for anything else.
When there is no Trust, there is no Happiness.
When there is no Trust, there can be no Love.
When there is no Trust, there is Nothing.

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. " -Albert Einstein

Me Thinks