brad’s bobeche blog

Language is a very interesting vehicle; we are presented with numerous choices. Or maybe I should say there are a lot of ways we can say the same thing. There seems to be certain words and phrases that I repeatedly use that might be a little arcane and seldom used by others. I was wondering if anyone knows of a study of why we chose the words we use. Usually I rely on the same words and expressions over and over again. As an example at dinner time I usually say “June it’s time to make dinner.” I don’t say, “June it’s time to fix dinner or cook dinner or bake dinner or order dinner or think about getting something to eat.” Why do I always use the same expressions, is it because of a lack of intelligence? (Or could it be because of an overabundance and I need to keep the brain waves open for more important thoughts?)

I’m now ready to get to the point of this post; I recently learned a new word. Just as I was getting ready to start using it in my everyday vocabulary I find out there is an alternative word that is just as good. I need your help; which of the two words do you like best and think would be better for me to sprinkle into my dangling conversations?

Paraskavedekatriaphobia or Figgatriskaidekaphobia?

Please let me know?

Jerry “Mr. Baseball” Smith called Thursday to complain that there hasn’t been an update on our baseball bet in a very, very, very long time. Of course he acknowledged two things, 1) if he wanted he could get his own blog and post updates, and 2) no who reads this blog (or doesn’t read this blog) seems to be interested in the bet.

However in the spirit of total customer satisfaction click here to see that as of right now Mr. Baseball has an eight point lead. At this point in the season that is nearly insurmountable!

Here’s a picture of Mr. Baseball and family.

As many of the remaining loyal readers of the bbb (or b3) know Mr. Shane Adams was determined to be the winner of the April Movie Trivia Contest. As part of that reward for winning we are featuring the following comprehensive biography.

Shane was born on December 23rd. We are not sure of the year but our best guess places the year in the late 1970’s. Although he could easily pass for someone born in 1980, we are pretty sure he was born in the 70’s because he is about the same age as my nephew Aaron and I think AJ was born in the 70’s maybe 76 or 77? Shane is the quintessential metro-sexual male (see photo below). We don’t really know what that means but we read it on his blog and think it might be true.

One of his many fine qualities is that he is ebulliently enthusiastic regarding life and the promises it presents. He rates most movies with 4 stars. He has a tattoo on one of his legs (could be the right, but if it’s not the right it’s the left for sure!). We think the tattoo may be one word like “courage” or “perseverance” or maybe it’s a drawing of a parrot pushing a shopping cart through Best Buy getting some cool stuff. (Actually the reason this biography is delayed is we were trying to get a glimpse of the tattoo so we could be perfectly accurate, but after my staff got a look it, there was a disagreement, so we decided to go to press without a final answer on this one small bit of information.)

Shane likes to wear hats (again, see photo); this might be part of the metro-sexual male thing. He also loves a good Chipolte Burrito. I guess it’s redundant to say a good Chipolte Burrito, because by definition all Chipolte Burritos are good, most are great. He is the creator of the Olathe Community of Christ webpage and is in charge of updating it.

Shane is married to the lovely and talented Alli. If she ever wins a monthly contest on the bbb we will feature her biography. Let me tell you this much, it will be a barnburner.

any questions?

There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

As you might remember, in April we held a Movie Trivia contest. The editors of the bbb would like to sincerely apologize for the delay in announcing the winner of this most prestigious contest. You’d think it would be easy, just go back and count. Unfortunately, their were some answers that were protested and we at the bbb were forced to make a decision.

AS an example someone accused Orval of cheating with all his Mae West answers, could be … we don’t really know. However, even if he hadn’t cheated he wouldn’t have had enough votes to win, so that really doesn’t matter.

The real problem and controversy came from the April 29th quote. after nearly a full month of debate among the staff at the bbb we discovered that the winner would have won even without this answer. - by the narrowest of margins (one point) we are happy to announce that Shane Adams is the winner of the April brad bobeche blog Movie Trivia contest - congratulations Shane.

AS the winner a full biography will be featured in an upcoming post on the bbb.

Please join me in congratulating Mr. Shane Adams.

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C.S. Lewis

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The Dream Team is on the way to California. I got up at 3:00 AM - June had been up for about an half an hour, and we found out when we picked up Chelsea that she had been up for an hour by the time I got up at 3!! Isabella got up sometime after me, but everyone got to the airport on time and they are on their way!!

“No Act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ” Aesop

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