Christian Concern For Our Nation

Christian Concern For Our Nation is a group of Christian lawyers in the UK dedicated to protecting freedom for Christians in their country. The group was formed in 2004 to lobby members of Parliament.

The group is a bit controversial.

I have nothing against concern for our nation. And, of course, I have nothing against Christian. But when you put them together as Christian Concern for Our Nation, I start to wonder if maybe they're going to start telling us how we should act and what we should believe and who or what we should have sex with and when.

And I don't like that. I think reasonable people should be able to do what they want.


Concern.
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Siergiej Muchanow

Siergiej Muchanow was a Russian official in the 1800s.

My Grandpa Eddie was born in Russia. I have mentioned this before in Wikibloogia. Grandpa Eddie came to the United States in the early 20th century when he was just a boy; a non-grandpa.

Siergiej's wife was a pianist.


Russians garnish their buildings with giant onions.
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Brian Cox

Brian Cox is a Scottish actor. He has won Emmy awards.

There was also a football player named Brian Cox. He played in the NFL. But he was a different Brian Cox. And he spelled his name with a Y, as in Bryan Cox. So really he wasn't Brian Cox. He was Bryan Cox.

Also, if two people have the same name, it doesn't mean they're the same person. However, if two people are the same person, they probably have the same name.


This guy is also Brian Cox.
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The Visible Men

The Visible Men is a band from Oregon that formed in 2002. It seems this band is either disbanded or on hiatus. They are not visible men at the moment.

Tonight is Christmas Eve. This means that Santa Claus is coming to town. Some people don't think Santa Claus is really a visible man. I don't know anyone who has actually seen the real Santa Claus in person. I only know people who have seen people pretending to be Santa Claus.

And then there's Jesus. There is also great debate about whether Jesus is a visible man. Some claim to have seen him in times of need or in a piece of toast. Tomorrow is his birthday. I know that a lot of people will be celebrating. But mostly I wonder how Jesus himself will celebrate.


A collection of visible men.
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Mud Island, Memphis

Mud Island, Memphis is a small peninsula in Memphis encircled by the Mississippi River and the Wolf River Harbor. It has a museum, restaurants and an amphitheater. One way to get there is by monorail.

Mud can be a lot of fun. I enjoy mud soccer.


Sometimes mud makes people grab other people's big boobs.
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Oto Horvat

Oto Horvat is a poet. He was born in Serbia in 1967.

Oto is a palindrome. Not many names are. Bob is.

I once went to summer camp with a girl whose last name was Horvat. I wonder if she was related to Oto. I will never know.


Oto Horvat writes non-magnetic poetry.
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Royal Palm Hotel (Miami)

Royal Palm Hotel (Miami) was a large resort hotel that opened in 1897. It was a grand hotel. A grand hotel for grand times.

The hotel was five stories tall and had Miami's first electric lights, elevators and swimming pool. In 1926 the hotel was severely damaged by a hurricane. It was also infested with termites. It was condemned and torn down in 1930.

And the fun was over.

Damn termites.


Careful. They eat hotels.
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Robert Ludvigovich Bartini

Robert Ludvigovich Bartini was an aircraft designer and scientist born in 1897 in Austria-Hungary (in present-day Croatia). Robert became a member of the Italian Communist Party in 1921 and eventually lived undercover in the USSR.

In the field of aerodynamics there is something called the "Effect of Bartini."

Someday I would like an effect named after me.


Someday I would like a neon sign named after me.
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Welcome (film)

Welcome (film) is a 2007 Hindi movie. It's about three notorious dons. It was extremely successful at the box office in India.

The film starred Akshay Kumar as Rajiv Saxena, Katrina Kaif as Sanjana Shetty, Anil Kapoor as Sagar Singh, and Ruslaan Mumtaz as himself.


Welcome (mat)
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La Mano Ajena

La Mano Ajena is a Chilean band. Their music combines many different styles. Here's a video for their song "Wewo": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfK--JKESO0. You might listen to it while you read on.

La Mano Ajena formed in 2002. Last month they opened for Gogol Bordello at a concert in Chile.

I speak a little Spanish, and with some help from a translator I found on the internet, I have decided that La Mano Ajena means Other People's Hand.

You can learn a lot from other people's hands. Where they've been, where they're going. Whether their hands smell.


Other people's sand hand.
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My Favorite Husband

My Favorite Husband was a radio show and network television series in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The radio show co-starred Lucille Ball and eventually evolved into I Love Lucy.

With today's internet, you can listen to some of the original radio episodes. For instance, here's one called "Is There a Baby in the House?".

I just listened to some of it. Radio shows are weird. Disembodied voices. I think I see the charm of it, but I prefer our modern-day embodied voices.


I love Lucy murals on garage doors.
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Sensory system

Sensory system is the part of the nervous system that allows us to sense things. Most human beings are limited to five senses. Some people, like Haley Joel Osment, have six senses. Also, some people have malfunctions of their sensory systems. People like Helen Keller, Ray Charles and Beethoven. Only famous people have malfunctioning sensory systems.

Our senses are how we experience reality. Your senses and my senses are different from each other. Thus, you and I experience different realities. In fact, some people think there is no reality, only senses. Please think of that the next time you punch someone in the face.


Combining touch and smell.
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Nature's Great Events

Nature's Great Events was a wildlife documentary broadcast on the BBC in February 2009. It had episodes with names like "The Great Melt" and "The Great Feast" and "The Great Salmon Run." It got rave reviews. One reviewer said you can cradle your jaw in your lap while watching it.

In the United States, the program was shown with the title "Nature's Most Amazing Events." This means one of two things:

1. The American English equivalent of the British "great" is "most amazing" (and vice versa).

or

2. Americans think that great things aren't such a big deal; only things that are the most amazing of that kind of thing are worth paying attention to.

Last night I had some great pizza and the most amazing fried chicken.


Nature's most amazing urinating chimpanzee.
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Oldenburg T 5.1

Oldenburg T 5.1 was a German steam locomotive designed in the early 20th century. It had a defect that resulted in bad riding quality at high speeds. In this way, the Oldenburg T 5.1 is like my 1999 Toyota Camry.

The Oldenburg T 5.1 was retired in 1930.


The first Oldenburgs connected by magnets.
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Fake IPL Player

Fake IPL Player is a blog that became very popular for a couple months earlier in 2009. It was an anonymous blogger who may or may not be a player on a well-known Indian cricket team.

The blog became a cult following. Hundreds of thousands of people visited it. In this respect, it is very different from my blog Wikibloogia. You are the only person who read my blog today.


My kind of cricket.
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Siobhain McDonagh

Siobhain McDonagh is a member of the British Parliament, and she has been since 1997.

Have you ever watched the Prime Minister's Questions on CSPAN? It's one of the greatest half hours on television. A taping airs every Sunday night at 9:oo PM EST. I highly recommend it. The Prime Minister fields questions from the Members of Parliament, and they all insult each other and stand up and sit down a lot and make funny old-timey British noises at each other. It's good comedy. Here's a taste.


Look kids. Big Ben. Parliament.
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Stearns (automobile)

Stearns (automobile) was a luxury car manufacturing company based in Cleveland. It's formal name was F. B. Stearns and Company. The company is now defunct. My formal name is Adam Jonathan Shonkoff. I still funct.

Frank Stearns was a pioneer in auto building back at the turn of the 20th century. He built his first car when he was a student in 1896. It was old-timey. But not at the time. At the time it was very new-timey.

I've never built a car. I often think how it would be cool to build myself a complex machine from scratch, and then use it. Like a car or a computer. But I've never done it. That's the difference between me and Frank Stearns. Also, he never blogged.


The 1929 Stearns-Knight had optional blood-soaked rims.
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Takashi Inukai

Takashi Inukai was a professor of Japanese literature at Osaka University. His students really liked him. He won many honors, including Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon.

When I was a young boy, I watched the movie Revenge of the Nerds. There is one scene in which the Nerds watch the sorority girls in their dorm via secret cameras. One of the Nerds is named Takashi. While they watch one girl lying in bed on her stomach, one of the Nerds says, "How could you ever get tired of that ass, Takashi?" But I always misunderstood and thought the Nerd was saying "How could you ever get tired of that asstakasher?"

I thought 'asstakasher' was another word for bum. And it was my understanding that Betty Childs had an awesome asstakasher.

It's funny being a young kid, with the little ways you misunderstand the world around you. I'm always reminded of this when I see the name Takashi.


Horse's asstakasher.
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A4130 road

A4130 road is a road in England. There have been a few roads in Wikibloogia. Some might think a road is a boring topic for Wikibloogia, but I love roads. I especially love open roads.

We should enjoy roads while we have them. They won't always be there.


Misuse of a road.
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Everglades

The Everglades are subtropical wetlands in Florida. I like Florida.

Wikipedia has all kinds of interesting things to say about the Everglades. Once, people wanted to drain the Everglades. Then I think people wanted to save them. When I think of the Everglades I think of alligators.

Right now as I write this I'm eating cheese.


This would make me poop my pants again.
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Mortgage broker

Mortgage broker is someone who sells mortgages.

When I was a young boy, I played some Monopoly. In Monopoly you can "mortgage" your property. That means you turn the card over and get cash money for it. This was usually a sign that you were in trouble, maybe even close to losing the game.

Nowadays I know that a mortgage is a loan that helps you buy a house.

In many ways, Monopoly gave me a skewed impression of how the real world works.


Tough times for the man with the wide left hand.
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Ftn

Ftn was a short-lived television channel in the British Isles.

Ftn broadcast between January 15, 2003 and October 1, 2007. It showed mostly entertainment and reality programming. It seems that Ftn was just an overnight broadcast; it was on between 6 pm and 6 am. It was geared toward nightshift workers and insomniacs and nocturnal animals like hamsters.

I had a hamster once. In fact, I think he's been mentioned in Wikibloogia before. His name was Mario. He would run on his wheel all night in my room and try to escape his cage.

He's dead now.

Just like Ftn.

Because that's the way it is.


Mario would have liked Ftn.
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Venetia Stanley

Venetia Stanley was a 17th-century third daughter of a minor English nobleman. Venetia had beauty. She had a licentious reputation. During her marriage to scientist and adventurer Kenelm Digby, she was a devout catholic.

There's other stuff too in Venetia's life story. There's a lot of intrigue. You can read all about it in the Wikipedia article. Near the end, she dies.


Venetia's blinds.
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Lori Easley

Lori Easley, a.k.a. Lori Easley Otter, is the First Lady of Idaho, and has been since 2007.

Lori is a former Miss Idaho USA, and she has a masters degree in Education, Curriculum and Instruction, & Education Administration. She is also a good athlete.

Her husband, the governor of Idaho, is named C.L. "Butch" Otter. That's a strong name. My name is Adam Shonkoff. That's not as strong. A lot of people have a hard time pronouncing it. Even though it sounds like it looks.

People are afraid. People are afraid of certain combinations of letters.


No relation.
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American Indian alcoholism

American Indian alcoholism is another awkward Wikibloogia entry. The other recent one was Massacre of Lviv professors.

I'd rather not write about sad and unfortunate things, but I must deal with what Wikibloogia gives me. Wikibloogia is like life, in that way. In a lot of other ways, Wikibloogia is not like life at all. For instance, Wikibloogia is a blog. Life is not a blog.

Or wait, maybe it is. Maybe life is a blog. Maybe life is just someone's blog.

I'd read that blog.

Alcoholism is bad. It's a problem in the American Indian community. But there are also a lot of American Indians who aren't alcoholics.


Non-alcoholic American Indian band.
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Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro

Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro is anime porn. It started as an erotic video game and then became a DVD. The title means Color of the Sky, Color of the Water.

Often, the color of the sky and the color of the water are the same. Because the water reflects the sky. Water, of course, is actually clear. But not when there's a lot of it in one place.

Sometimes, when you look directly at certain water, it looks exactly like you.

I'm not into anime porn.


Sexy cartoon boob sweat.
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Oghma (Forgotten Realms)

Oghma (Forgotten Realms) refers to Oghma, some powerful figure in some fantasy world. He was created by a man named Ed for his home Dungeons & Dragons game. But Oghma is also in the Celtic pantheon, or something. I don't really get it.

I don't care about Oghma.


Life is like a box of chocolates.
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Tilt (band)

Tilt (band) was a punk band from northern California. They formed in 1992, the same year that Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers were born. They disbanded once and for all in 2001, the same year that Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers turned nine.

Tilt is more than just a band. It is also a sloping position. My apartment is tilted. My street is tilted. My brain is tilted. You're tilted. I'm tilted. Miley Cyrus is tilted. Everyone is tilted. Everything is tilted. The Jonas Brothers are tilted. Tilt is tilted.

Everybody remain tilted.


Ground's tilted.
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Debt validation

Debt validation refers to the consumer's right to get verification of his/her debt from the debt collector. Americans have this right thanks to the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Thanks, government.

I am currently in debt to one of my friends, because he picked me up from the airport the other day. Now I never know when he will call upon me to do him a favor in return. Being in debt to someone is a strange thing. But I don't mind, as long as I can validate and verify my debt at any point.

Each one of us is in debt to the Universe. The Universe lends us a whole bunch of material to walk around in for about 80 years, at which point we have to give it back.

Thanks, Universe.


Debt leads to sign-holding.
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Massacre of Lviv professors

Massacre of Lviv professors was the systematic execution of about 45 Polish professors and their families in Lviv in July 1941. Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. Usually Wikibloogia is supposed to be kind of funny, so this is a little awkward.

I think I'll just leave it at that.


Good times have returned to Lviv.
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Lagro Township, Wabash County, Indiana

Lagro Township, Wabash County, Indiana is a township in Indiana.

In the year 2000, its population was 3,158.

There are seven cemeteries in Lagro Township. One of them is called Independent Order of Odd Fellows. I want to be buried there when I die.

Have you heard of the Odd Fellows? I hadn't. But now I have. I think it might be famous, but not to me. Can things be famous to one person but not famous to another? I think so. To me, I'm the most famous person in the world.

Odd Fellows is a fraternal organization.


Stop before Odd Fellows' cemetery.
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Dawn Airey

Dawn Airey is a British television executive. If you want to see her resume, read the Wikipedia article.

Three things of note:

• Colleagues have described her as "the most vulgar person" they have ever met.
• As a teen, she lived with her architect father.
• In 2006, the Independent named Dawn as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in the UK.

Dawn is one of my favorite times of day.


In England they watch TV on the left side.
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Fast Crew

Fast Crew is a hip hop group from New Zealand. Please watch their video now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkwRRH_LV54.

I love New Zealand. New Zealand is one of those countries that pretty much everyone loves. There are some countries that people don't love as much. People don't like North Korea as much. Or Canada.

But New Zealand. People love it. Russell Crowe is from there, I think. He was good in L.A. Confidential. That was a good movie. New Zealand is famous for its sheep and kiwifruit.

I have a question though. Was there once a Zealand?


This sheep is sad because his wife was turned into a bush.
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James Webb (rugby player)

James Webb (rugby player) was a rugby player named James Webb. He played in Wales at the turn of the 20th century.

James lived for 50 years, but his life can pretty much be summed up by one rugby game against a team from New Zealand.


The ball doesn't know, but there's a mob quietly approaching.
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Filename

Filename is a computer programming term. A filename is a string used to identify a file on a computer.

My filename is Adam.


Old-timey files.
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Welfare fraud

Welfare fraud is getting welfare when you don't deserve it, whether as an individual or as an organized crime ring. Welfare fraud is a crime, punishable by prison. Don't do it.

Some people engage in welfare fraud by claiming non-existent children. This Wikipedia article mentions one woman who had more than 60 fictitious children. Isn't that incredible? I don't even have 60 real children.


Fake children.
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Gordon Freeman

Gordon Freeman is a fictional character from a video game called Half-Life. Gordon is the hero of the game. He is a theoretical physicist who kills aliens. He's from Seattle.

Just a couple weeks ago, users of a popular video game website voted Gordon Freeman as "All Time Greatest Video Game Hero." He beat out such renowned heroes as Frogger, Mario, and Bo Jackson from Tecmo Bowl.

I have never heard of Gordon Freeman. But I have heard of Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman would be a good video game hero. He would be a good Pacman.

I have to cut my fingernails.


Don't brood, Gordon Freeman.
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Katy Trail (Dallas)

Katy Trail (Dallas) is a path in Dallas that you can rollerblade or bike or hike on. It follows the abandoned Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad line.

The Katy Trail is part of a bigger project in Dallas to replace all the old abandoned railroad tracks with recreational paths. I like this idea. I'm in favor of de-abandoning things.

The project is being carried out by an organization called The Friends of Katy Trail. I support their efforts, but I think they should know that you can't really be friends with a trail. You can like a trail, and you can enjoy using it recreationally, and you can tell it your problems if you want, but you can never really be friends.


Stay off Katy Trail when the giant pees on it.
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Catamount, Massachusetts

Catamount, Massachusetts is an old village that doesn't exist anymore. In the year 1812, the schoolhouse in Catamount was the first to fly the United States flag out front. That schoolhouse doesn't exist anymore either.

Catamount was abandoned as a village because the people found it too remote and mountainous. Now visitors come to the area when they want to go somewhere remote and mountainous.

A catamount is an animal. Depending on the region it lives in, it can be called puma or mountain lion or panther or cougar. Nowadays, when you say cougar people think of middle-aged women like Demi Moore, who eat younger men. But catamounts eat deer, elk and bighorn sheep.


Catamount feels bad about eating that cuddly sheep.
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Satyendra Nath Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose was a physicist from India. He is most famous for his work on quantum mechanics in the 1920s.

Satyendra Nath Bose was immortalized when they named the boson after him. A boson is a special kind of particle. You should think of Satyendra and his accomplishments every time you think about bosons.


Boson humor.
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Ballad of the Irish Horse (album)

Ballad of the Irish Horse (album) is an album released by The Chieftains in 1986. The Chieftains are an Irish group who sing traditional Irish music.

At first I thought "the Irish Horse" was slang for something dirty. But now I think they just mean an Irish horse.


Nostril of the Irish horse.
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Chasing Time (compilation album)

Chasing Time (compilation album) was a compilation album released by the '80s progressive metal band Fates Warning. I don't think I know this band.

Fates Warning has inspired me to write a poem. You can read it while you listen to your favorite Fates Warning song. Below is my poem. It's called "Chasing Time (compilation album)".

Chasing Time (compilation album)
We're not chasing time.
Time's chasing us.
But time is slow.
And we are fast.
We will take a big lead.
But then we will take a nap. And time will win the race.
Slow and steady.

Adam Shonkoff


Chevy Chasing Time (compilation album)
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Oregon City class cruiser

Oregon City class cruiser was a class of heavy cruisers in the U.S. Navy.

It didn't fare very well, as classes of cruisers go. They had planned to make eight, but only made four. Kind of like a failed sitcom. But funnier.


Again, no respect for Oregon City class cruiser.
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Bell System

Bell System was a giant telephone monopoly run by AT&T from 1877 to 1984. In 1984 the company was broken up into smaller pieces by the federal government to protect you and me. Thanks, Uncle Sam.

Bell System was named after Alexander Graham Bell. He invented the telephone. Thanks, Alexander Graham Bell.

I'd also like to thank Alexander Graham Bell's father and mother for inventing Alexander Graham Bell.

I'm glad there are inventors. Without inventors, we'd have nothing. Nothing at all.


Alexander Graham Bell was made out of white chocolate.
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The April Fools

The April Fools is a 1969 romantic comedy starring Jack Lemmon.

Wikipedia just taught me something amazing I never knew. Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts. I too was born (and raised) in Newton, Massachusetts. Not only that, but Jack Lemmon was born at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. I too was born at Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

The difference is that Jack Lemmon was born in a hospital elevator, while I was born in a delivery room. I'm not sure why they delivered Jack Lemmon in an elevator. An elevator would be one of the last places in a hospital I'd deliver Jack Lemmon.


Jack Lemmon trapped under cement.
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Gankyil

Gankyil is a Tibetan Buddhist symbol. It is reminiscent of the yin-yang symbol, but the Gankyil has three elements instead of just two. See a Gankyil for yourself: here.

Three is a very special number. There are three elements of the holy trinity. It takes three legs to make a table stand. There were three bears. Three blind mice. Three wise men. Three little pigs. We each have three arms, three legs, three eyes. There are three days in a week, three weeks in a month, three months in a year.

Three is the magic number. One of my favorite songs.


There are three lemurs.
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Rachel De Thame

Rachel De Thame is an English TV personality and gardener. English people probably know who she is. I have never heard of her.

I have heard of gardening though. I've never had my own garden. I admire people who have their own gardens, big or small, from which they get fresh herbs and vegetables to cook with.

Though, you have to be careful what you eat from your garden. Some things can make your belly ache, or cause vomiting, or make you have to put clothes on and leave your garden forever.

Rachel de Thame in gardening robe.
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Jane Kelly

Jane Kelly is an artist affiliated with the Stuckist art group in Britain, which is an art movement that started ten years ago in opposition to something. I think they're rebellious. I think they didn't like the pretentiousness of the more established art movements in Britain.

Jane Kelly has been involved in some controversy. A few years ago she was fired from her job at the Daily Mail after she made a controversial painting.

Controversy is a funny thing. What seems controversial to you may not seem controversial to me. Controversy exists mostly because people like to have things to fight about. There's too much manufactured controversy in the world. People get too riled up about things other people say or make. I think as long as no one is getting hurt, everybody should just be free to do whatever they want to do.


She makes a convincing argument.
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Gnophopsodos

Gnophopsodos is a genus of moth. I broke the Wikibloogia rules. I told myself I would not bloog about an article if it were a stub. But I just couldn't keep gnophopsodos from all of you.

God bless whoever named this moth.


Gnophop on Gnophopsodos.
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Secondary dominant

Secondary dominant is a type of musical chord used in harmony.

In Harmony 2 was a record I had when I was a kid, and it had "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" by Bruce Springsteen. It also had a song by Billy Joel about an imaginary friend. For a little while I thought Billy Joel was my imaginary friend. Turned out he's a real man.


Harmony.
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