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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Infamously Famous

One of the best experiences of my life is the night my son and I spent listening to internet music. It was less about father and son and more about guitar player to guitar player. My wife yelled out every 35 minutes to see if we were “going to bed.” Glad he’s my son. He’s pretty cool.

Why do all motorcycle riders say “hello” to each other? Have you seen this? Every time a motorcycle passes another motorcycle, they put that “low five” down to each other. Why? Do I wave at every other car driver when I go by them? Does a Harley rider wave at a Gold Wing driver? Where do we draw the line? I don’t consider you a motorcycle driver unless you have a Harley…

Hey, with friends like the US government, who needs enemies? What good does the health care bill do? Does it help anyone?

What is the difference between the words “famous” and “infamous”? Is it just that “infamous” sounds more ominous? I thought the prefix “in” was supposed to make the word mean the opposite like “humane” and “inhumane”, not just make it a weird sounding synonym. Is anyone else confused by this? Anyway, even if being “infamous” carries a bad connotation to it, didn’t someone once say, “there is no such thing as bad publicity?” If I were to ever be famous, I would demand that people call me infamous and for them to refer to my house as my “lair”. It would certainly be easier to cook up some diabolical plots in a lair than in a house…

2 comments:

  1. In the wife's defense the "son" said about 6 times that he would listen to one more song and that he was tired and would be heading off to bed. The case of beer consumed by the father was enough to make him forget that he already heard said song 5 times in a row and wife was tired of father torturing son.

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  2. What's the difference between press and impress. They aren't actually antonyms either. Sorry I'm late on posting. Although you seem to write everyday; I can't keep up with reading.

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