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Say cheese.
2 Ever get nervous at night when those things are mixing it up over your house?
3 That's why I carry a powerful silver flashlight from my neighborhood Walgreens.
4 Some guy be jumpin' fences: POW!!! You got blinded, suckuh.
5 Yee-uh.
6 Anybody lookin'?
7 You didn't know I was a badass.
8 Can be.
9 fkfla;dfkfdskafj. Okay I'm not.
10 Moving On, Part One: If you ever decide to teach, don't give essays unless you wish to stand on the hood of a Buick and not look down. The wind worsens matters.
11 Makes for late nights and exhausting days.
12 Yesterday I got home and once again put on an old movie, clumb under a blanket and napped.
13 Yup. I clumb.
14 You climbed.
15 You hit my age you make up words.
16 Either way I strongly suggest it.
17 Is there such a thing as too much nap?
18 Nah.
19 I'm going to enjoy it when I can.
20 I caught my first Jimmy Fallon-as-Tonight Show host last night.
21 Historical. Hysterical.
22 Pretty slick. He did a pretty good Putin. Sam-I-Am's rebuttal to Sarah Palin's spoof of Obamacare was right on target. And he looked slick.
23 AnywayZ
24 If I'm up watching Fallon then I'm back to my old habit of staying up too late.
25 Napped too long yesterday afternoon.
26 I'm hoping I could put myself to sleep writing this.
27 Moving On, Part Two: I finally broke down and bought Windows 8 for Dummies.
28 The trouble was I had to move my hand completely off the side of the book in order to open it.
29 Anybody lookin'?
30 I opened the book and it had only one page. It said this about Windows 8 and about my subsequent purchase of Windows 8 For Dummies: You Wuz Robbed.
31 Moving On, Part Three: How do you battle insomnia?
32 <looking at bright teevee screen Fallon show> Greetings from New York!
33 You watch Fallon photo bombs.
34 I glance up and chuckle. WAY immature. WAY stupid. WAY funny.
35 I've always enjoyed some late night after settling down for the night.
36 Lifetime habit. It goes all the way back to Carson.
37 It has a strong history, so tonight is my first with Fallon as host of the Tonight Show.
38 Someone decided the universe needed to be stabilized.
39 Pretty fun.
40 I won't say I've been grading too much lousy writing but I double-checked my spelling of "stabilized".
41 I had it right. <voice of Chris Rock: "Whatdya want, a cookie?> hashtagicanspelldammiticanspell
42 Watch this: without even looking "onomatopoeia".
43 Pretty slick. No spell check.
44 I taught my students how to chunk down that word. You write the word "on". Then you write "tomato". Then you remove the first "t". Next, insert a lower-case "poe", as in Edgar Allan. You should now have this: "onomatopoe" right? Tag on "ia" and viola!
45 "Onomatopoeia"!
46 What is...did you just ask what is...okayherego.
"Onomatopoeia" Ready?
Here go:
"onomatopoeia" from Dictionary.com:
1. the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
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48 Anybody?
49 What's that you ask? What's a "referent"?
50
51 Look it up.
52 Meanwhile, back to "onomatopoeia". Here is some clarification for the slow of study:
53 Anybody remember Adam West and Burt Ward in the old Batman series on teevee?
54 Pure innocent stupidity.
55 Gotta love it. No brooding. No Hunger Games acting. No arrows.
56 When Batman and Robin fought villains, the noises would come up with comic book immediacy: POW! BOOM! SPLURGGGE! See below:
53 ZLONK! ZLOTT! EEE-YOW!
54 SPELL IT! "on omato poe ia. onomatopoeia." AGAIN with the viola!
55 End of lesson. Oh, what>? I KNOW! I KNOW!
56 Gottago. Leave your check at the door.
57 Peace.
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