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10 Random Hows

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1. How is it that today went by with only four hours in it? Because I could swear I just finished my Rice Krispies and it’s already 10:37pm.

2. How close does one really have to be to the curb when they parallel park on the street? I think three feet is fair, don’t you?

3. How many times can a person listen to “Let It Go” from the movie Frozen before they require admittance to a mental facility?

4. How long does it take for a kid to grow up? I’m talking boys here.

5. How now brown cow?

6. How does Twitter work? Seriously. Is there anyone on the planet who really knows?

7. How much money would it take to send all the spammers and bots into outer space?

8. How can you put the words “into” and “outer” together side-by-side in a sentence? See above.

9. How did someone come up with the saying, “There are easier ways to kill a cat than to choke it with butter”?

10. How will you decide which one of these questions to answer? I dare you to answer at least half…

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  1. suzjones's avatar
    suzjones
    September 16, 2014 at 9:52 pm

    2. I think even four feet is fair. 😉

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  2. willowdot21's avatar
    willowdot21
    September 16, 2014 at 7:05 pm

    1because it did.
    2 yes
    3 once
    4 boys never grow up I cite Peter Pan
    5 don’t know
    6 Ditto
    7too much
    8you have to be seriously clever.
    9they were high as kites at the time
    10 I love a challenge ;)xx

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    cordeliasmom2012
    September 16, 2014 at 9:49 am

    I had to laugh at #6. I just signed up for Twitter (because one of my readers wasn’t a Facebook member and couldn’t see the Puppy Cody pictures). Anyway, I immediately sent an email to my daughter, Cordelia: “I just set up a Twitter account. Now what do I do with it?” She and I are going to dinner tonight so she can give me her expert blogging advice (I pay her in food).
    PS to Paul: Sorry you’ll miss all my new literary tidbits on Twitter.

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    • Linda G. Hill's avatar
      LindaGHill
      September 16, 2014 at 12:21 pm

      Don’t all parents pay their kids in food, like, from birth just to keep quiet? 😉
      Copy your twitter link here and I’ll follow you. 🙂

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        cordeliasmom2012
        September 16, 2014 at 2:02 pm

        Golly, I’m not sure yet how to copy a Twitter link! But there is a Follow-Me-On-Twitter button on the right of my blog page – that I was able to figure out all by myself, although it took awhile.

        (Feeling kinda dumb right now.)

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          cordeliasmom2012
          September 16, 2014 at 2:07 pm

          *sigh* I couldn’t even get that right! It’s the “Now On TWITTER” section, but I don’t know if that lets you “follow” or not. So much to learn.

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          • Linda G. Hill's avatar
            LindaGHill
            September 16, 2014 at 2:10 pm

            I was able to find you by clicking on your name in the box where I can see your tweets. Not to worry.
            …don’t ask me how I managed to get my “follow me” button on my blog. I haven’t a clue. Luck would be my best guess. 😛

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              cordeliasmom2012
              September 16, 2014 at 2:13 pm

              You probably have a different theme. My theme only allows widgets, and the Twitter widget didn’t seem to actually have a “follow me” icon. Of course, I could be wrong, I may have accidentally deleted the icon when I edited the title of the widget – I’m constantly tweaking the darn blog pages.

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        • Linda G. Hill's avatar
          LindaGHill
          September 16, 2014 at 2:08 pm

          Sorry, I should have been more specific. Just type out your twitter name: @cordeliasmom and anyone with a twitter account will be able to find you. 😀
          It took me an age to figure out the few things I have, mostly thanks to Mr. Cushman. 🙂

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  4. Paul's avatar
    Paul
    September 16, 2014 at 8:03 am

    Hmm.
    1) What? I’ve never been up by 10:37 am so I wouldn’t know. I enjoy my Tony the Tiger Frosted Flakes sometime after noon. Grrrrrrrrreat!

    2) I’m not sure you are allowed to decide what is fair – I think there is a book somehwere that says specifically what the policeman writing you a ticket thinks is fair.
    3) the mental facilities are all full right now – please come back and try at a later date.
    4) They don’t (speaking as an old boy)
    5) Chocolate milk. (that comes from Brown cows doesn’t it?)
    6) I don’t use it because I think it is a tool of the devil – at least my preacher says it is.
    7) More than I have.
    8) “Linda has a bellybutton that is an outer, into which no lint can fall.”
    9) Typically that is true, but not today. Loblaws had butter in special yesterday and so I bought 2 blocks, for the first time in years. So today it IS easier to choke a cat with butter, normally I’d have to use margarine (or one of those strange, inexplicable inbetween products such as Becel or I Can’t belive it’s Not Butter” – who knows what they are made of)
    10) It saves me from deciding by answering them all.

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    • Linda G. Hill's avatar
      LindaGHill
      September 16, 2014 at 12:17 pm

      1. They certainly are. You’re one of those “I’m not a morning person but when I do get up I’m energetic” sort of people, aren’t you.
      2. Policeman schmoliceman. What do they know?
      3. Noooo!!!!
      4. Thanks for your white-maned wisdom.
      5. It does!
      6. It is! But doesn’t that mean it’s supposed to be fun?
      7. You and me both.
      8. I do not have an outie! How dare you spread such rumours! … oh look, lint! Never mind.
      9. “Non-hydrogenated soy spread.” Yumm….
      10. Brilliant! 🙂

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    moi
    September 16, 2014 at 5:21 am

    1. Because Rice Krispies are really time quickening capsules.
    2. I really hope you are joking lol?
    3. Once
    4. minimum 50 years.
    5. nanu nanu
    6. I am baffled too, all I know is they made a lot of dough convincing people that 140 characters was good.
    7. sadly after the first lot were launch and mistakenly on purpose sent into the Sun, a new lot appeared.
    8. Your’s is the only way to do it I am sure.
    9. I have never heard that saying before in my life.
    10. start at the top and work my way down.

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    Doobster418
    September 15, 2014 at 11:47 pm

    1. That’s what you get for eating Rice Krispies for breakfast…the day just snaps, crackles, and pops away.
    2. Closer than three feet…like about two and three-quarters feet closer.
    3. Once is too many times.
    4. Boys never grow up.
    5. How not now brown cow?
    6. Seriously, does anybody but you really care how Twitter works?
    7. Well, according to an email I got from a Nigerian prince….
    8. How can you ask a question for which you already had the answer? Who do you think you are, Alex Trebek?
    9. It’s the companion to the saying that cats have nine chives.
    10. All of the above.

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    • Linda G. Hill's avatar
      LindaGHill
      September 16, 2014 at 12:04 pm

      1. That explains all the noise in my head.
      2. Wayyy too picky.
      3. Agreed.
      4. Not many of them do.
      5. That’s gonna piss off a lot of antsy brown cows.
      6. Probably not.
      7. The Nigerian princes need to go too.
      8. I am, by association for being Canadian, Alex Trebek. All Canadians are actually Alex Trebek. And that, incidentally, is my excuse for having a moustache. You wondered where it went? I got it.
      9. That just doesn’t chive.
      10. 🙂 I knew you could do it.

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  7. A Muslim Latina's avatar
    A Muslim Latina
    September 15, 2014 at 11:21 pm

    1. It had a sleeping potion… I guess you had your Prince Charming but he left before you open your eyes… 😉
    2. No clue I just do it lol
    4. ummm never… My husband is a perfect example lol
    6. I just like the bird….:)
    7. When you know let me know I’ll chip in

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    • Linda G. Hill's avatar
      LindaGHill
      September 15, 2014 at 11:30 pm

      Damn, I missed Prince Charming… again!
      I think I’m going to have to get some kind of fundraiser going for #7. 😀

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    • Linda G. Hill's avatar
      LindaGHill
      September 16, 2014 at 5:08 pm

      Since I failed to reply to all your points, here are the ones I left out.
      1. See above.
      2. I just do it too and look where it gets me. Three feet from the curb. 😛
      3. Many husbands are.
      6. If only it was that easy. And if it was, can we please have a social media site called “Flying”?
      7. See above. 🙂

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  8. KG's avatar
    KG
    September 15, 2014 at 11:06 pm

    #1. You accidentally pressed the fast forward button?
    #2. Never done parallel parking. It’s always ‘park however and wherever’ you want policy here. So anything goes.
    #3. More than 5 in repeat. Am really sick of that song now.
    #4. All their life time, hopefully. Some one said to me that boys never grow up, ever.
    #5. Brown?

    I will attempt the rest when I am fully awake 🙂

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    • Linda G. Hill's avatar
      LindaGHill
      September 15, 2014 at 11:10 pm

      Ha! I wondered how anyone was going to answer #5. 🙂 Thanks for doing the first five whilst partially asleep. 😀
      P.S. I think I need to live where you live, in regards to parking. 😉

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    • Linda G. Hill's avatar
      LindaGHill
      September 16, 2014 at 5:04 pm

      Since I failed to reply to all your points, here are the ones I left out.
      1. There’s a fast forward button on my entire life, it seems. It’s been picking up speed more in the last 20 years, however.
      2. See above.
      3. From the looking at the other answers, you’re more tolerant than most.
      4. Seems to be the general feeling.
      5. See above.
      I look forward to the rest of your answers. 🙂

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