{"id":1258,"date":"2011-08-21T09:05:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:22","slug":"thoughts-at-large-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/08\/thoughts-at-large-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts at Large: 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 According to dictionary.com<\/a>,\u00a0 a manifesto <\/em>is “a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives.”\u00a0 If I were to call this blog a manifesto<\/em>, maybe someone at the FBI would start reading it.\u00a0 It would be one more reader than I have now.<\/p>\n

\u2022 It is a lot less work to have an idea than to execute one.\u00a0 Execution is a pain in the ass.<\/p>\n

\u2022 My wife just bought some red wine glasses whose globes shimmy like water balloons when you attempt to wash them.\u00a0 It is only a matter of time.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The NYU Medical Center says that your sinuses produce over a quart of mucus per day<\/a>.\u00a0 In an average person’s lifetime, that works out to be 163 barrels<\/em> of snot.\u00a0 It’s a good thing we have throats.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Important things happen that never show up on Facebook.\u00a0 Maybe by definition.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The film “Baseball’s Last Hero: The Roberto Clemente Story” is now in pre-production, scheduled to be released in 2012.\u00a0 I took a look at the starting lineup — I mean, the cast<\/a><\/em> — and was disappointed to see that Bob Prince<\/a>, the Voice of the Pirates in the Clemente era, will not be portrayed in the film.\u00a0 How could you not include Prince?<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/em>I use the word that<\/em> a lot, incorrectly a tenth of the time, superfluously a third of the time.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Are flying insects attracted to your ears, or are they the only ones you hear coming?<\/p>\n

\u2022 If Mark Twain didn’t say, “Ain’t worth a teaspoon of hummingbird pee,” he should have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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