Random Thoughts
So far, no one has payed me to blog, but I have gotten some lucrative offers not to blog.
I’m tripping billies with my cool shoeshine.
If we find aliens and they ask what we call our moon, they’re going to think we’re morons. Shouldn’t we have named it by now? No one has a child and just calls him “the child” throughout his lifetime. How did that happen to the moon?
And what if the alien has his own name for his star? I’m too used to calling it “GJ 3021″ to switch now.
I like a bacon cheeseburger because it’s nice to know at least two separate animals died to satisfy my hunger.
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December 23rd, 2009 at 9:49 am
GJ3021 is a binary star system in the constellation Hydra. Since when is that your star Frank? Are you commandeering another planet’s star, another planet we don’t know about?
December 23rd, 2009 at 10:06 am
here’s a random Obamas Carol
Oh jingle bells Michelle smells
Barack laid a rotten egg
the Obama Mobile broke its wheel
now the tax payer’s gotta pay…..
December 23rd, 2009 at 10:19 am
That’s “Luna,” see!
December 23rd, 2009 at 10:55 am
Silly Frank! Animals don’t have to die to make cheese.
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:09 am
There’s a moon in the sky
It’s called the moon
-The B-52s-
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:59 am
“If we find aliens and they ask what we call our moon, they’re going to think we’re morons. Shouldn’t we have named it by now? No one has a child and just calls him “the child” throughout his lifetime. How did that happen to the moon?”
Please don’t raise that issue now – the result will be that it will in some way or another be named after Obama, and that will be very hard to undo.
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I wouldn’t mind the moon being named Obama. Frank would just have to change his essay…
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:25 pm
The moon? What about a name for the planet? “Earth” just has no flair at all, and it’s kind of incorrect, since most of the planet’s surface isn’t earth, but water. “Water” would be more accurate, but that leaves out the rather important patches of ground. “Mostly Harmless” is more of an encyclopedia entry than a name. Same goes for “Third Rock.” So I’m stuck, but I really think you need a better name for the planet before you can name he moon.
My first (and rather prosaic) suggestions are: planet “Adam” and moon “Armstrong.”
December 23rd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
I just call The Moon “Luna”
December 23rd, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Western civilization just decided that it should be called the Moon, since most other cultures that have given it a formal name are still butt-ass backwards or have long since vanished.
December 23rd, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Maybe “Moon” actually is a proper name. Like Bob. And they were lazy when they called all the other planets’ orbiting spheres moons. Then someone was like, hey, that’s a lot of Bobs. Let’s give the rest of the Bobs more original names, so that only our moon is The Moon, because it is the awesomest because it has an American flag on it.
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Whoa! Frank, you just struck lightning!
The American flag is still planted on the Moon. So, it’s ours.
The US govt. should immediatly commence an aution for naming rights! If Citigroup is willing to pay a billion to name a baseball field, then we should be able to get a kewl trillion for the moon.
Coke, Pepsi, Budweiser or Marlboro!
Pick your favorite
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I’m going out and luna a liberal…. nope, don’t work for me.
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Name the moon? Why name something that’s eventually just going to get nuked?
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Forget the moon, how stupid will they think we are for calling our star Sun?!
Besides, they will KNOW how stupid we are because we can’t even travel to our nearest Planet, and Science! de-listed fully vetted and accepted Pluto for political reasons, without even going there!
Oh, and there are SIX American flags on Luna.
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I like a bacon cheeseburger because it’s nice to know at least two separate animals died to satisfy my hunger.
I like Bacon! on my burger too, dang it animals are just so tasty.
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
“tripping billies” is insufficiently heteronormative. NTTAWWT.
December 24th, 2009 at 1:50 am
The word you were looking for is “PAID”
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/payed.html
December 24th, 2009 at 7:22 am
“Moon” is it’s name. We’ve just taken to calling other planets’ satellites as “moons” because the meaning is universally understood. Like calling table tennis by the name Ping Pong™ (a trademark name of Parker Brothers), calling facial tissues by the name Kleenex™ (a trademark name of Kimberly-Clark), or (in the south) calling all cola drinks a Coke™ (a trademark of Coca-Cola).
We say “the Moon” just like we all say “I’m heading to the Walmart” or “I found it on the Google” or “Frank’s done started using the Twitter” and so on.
We need to trademark that name. “Moon” I’m talking about. Or, should I say Moon™?
December 24th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Is it just me or does Basil kind of look like Harry Ried?
Anyone ever seen them together?
December 24th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I like buffets because I can eat the entire food chain. Marsupials and amphibians are woefully under represented on most buffets.
December 26th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
The rain is Tess, the fire’s Joe, and the wind we call Mariah.
December 27th, 2009 at 12:56 am
“Silly Frank! Animals don’t have to die to make cheese”
Animals know how to make cheese? wow …. the sliced kind?