While a lot of you in the Eastern US are preparing for a visit from “Frankenstorm Sandy”, in Edmonton we are receiving our first bit of snow to stick around. I hope all my friends in the Eastern US are safe. We’ve had snow before today, but it was all gone by lunchtime usually. Today it’s been snowing almost non-stop for most of the day. It’s light & fluffy flakes of snow drifting lazily to the ground except for when the wind catches the flakes & swirls them round. Time to get the Christmas lights & put them up on the balcony before it gets too cold. Last year we had almost no snow. I guess this year we’ll have a little more since it’s starting early.
I think I’m going to have to move Monday Mirth to another day of the week. Edward Hotspur has overtaken Mondays with his Romantic Monday blog event which has turned out to be enormously popular. I had tried to liven Mondays up with a little bit of humor, but I certainly can’t compete with Romantic Mondays (& wouldn’t want to because I’d lose every time). Besides which, I’m enjoying participating in Romantic Mondays & it’s too difficult to do 2 posts every Monday. So I’m thinking of moving to another day. But I can’t come up with a clever name for Tuesday or Wednesday. The only things coming to me are “Tuesday Titillations” or “Wednesday Whimsy” & neither of those seem completely appropriate. So I’m appealing to my readers to help me with a name & a day to post funny little pick-me-ups. It has to be early in the week because El Guapo takes over Friday with Friday Foolishness & I don’t want to compete with him either.
So if you can come up with a good name & day of the week to post funnies & you don’t mind me using it, please submit it in the comments section.
Edward Hotspur
Oct 28, 2012 @ 16:49:53
Benz! I don’t own Monday – there’s plenty of Monday for everyone! So don’t move your Monday Mirth post! Please? Don’t think of it as a competition, but as two sides of the same finger we use to flip off Mondays!
In fact, I suggest supporting each others’ Mondays. Who doesn’t need support on Mondays? Especially if we all get snowed in.
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benzeknees
Oct 28, 2012 @ 22:34:26
I wasn’t trying to suggest you own Monday – I just like your blog event Romantic Mondays so much I want to participate instead of trying to write 2 blogs on Monday & then nothing else for the rest of the week. I’m kind of liking Hump Day Hilarity – wouldn’t it be nice to have something to look forward to besides Wordless Wednesday?
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Edward Hotspur
Oct 28, 2012 @ 16:50:13
sigh
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buckwheatsrisk
Oct 28, 2012 @ 17:16:57
oh man we’ve had snow where we are for at least a couple weeks! lol
Taboo Tuesday?
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benzeknees
Oct 28, 2012 @ 20:31:24
Where are you to have had snow for a couple weeks already? I think if I used Taboo Tuesday, I might have to make my jokes a little more risque?
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buckwheatsrisk
Oct 28, 2012 @ 21:49:16
ha! i live in Northern Alberta.
you could make the jokes risque…or just throw people of with the jokes you make??
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benzeknees
Oct 28, 2012 @ 22:08:50
Another Albertan? Wow, I didn’t know there were any others here except for Pink Ninjabi & I think she’s in Calgary maybe.
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buckwheatsrisk
Oct 28, 2012 @ 22:43:04
ha small world, i was born and raised in Ont. lived in B.C. for two years and now I’m Albertan…lol Calgary is a long way from where i live. 🙂
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benzeknees
Oct 28, 2012 @ 23:19:42
I was born in Wpg., lived for 10 years in NW Ont. & now more than 5 years in Alberta – started in Leduc, then to Beaumont, then Edmonton. I have family in Kelowna, Vancouver & Nanaimo, used to have some in Penticton & Oliver. We have cousins in Calgary & every few months hubby has to travel there for work meetings. I have cousins in Grande Prairie also.
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El Guapo
Oct 28, 2012 @ 19:30:20
Still seems so early for snow. Is this usually when it starts up there?
And I’ll still come and read the Mirths (The Tuesday Titillation? The Wednesday Wahoo?) whenever you put it up.
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benzeknees
Oct 28, 2012 @ 20:30:21
We’ve had snow in every month of the year up here! Last year we didn’t get snow until almost Christmas, but usually we get snow somewhere between mid-October & mid-November. I don’t want to interfere with your day because it would take away my enjoyment of Friday Foolishness (I wouldn’t be able to spend as much time reading replies)
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John Erickson
Oct 28, 2012 @ 19:42:00
Maybe Wednesday Wackiness? Hump-day Hilarity? Let me think about it – I’m probably gonna be offline for a few days, compliments of Sandy (5%) and my idiotic ISP (95%). 😉
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benzeknees
Oct 28, 2012 @ 20:25:14
Hump Day Hilarity is resonating with me! I should have made this a contest or something & let everyone vote on it except I don’t know how to do that!
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Adam S
Oct 28, 2012 @ 22:00:03
First off, I’m already looking forward to spring…Secondly, I have to ask, (because it was funny you mentioning Christmas lights) what time of the year do you usually take them down? 🙂
I’ll offer up “The Hump Day Funnies”
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benzeknees
Oct 28, 2012 @ 22:11:45
In our last apartment, the condo board threatened to fine us if we didn’t take them down before the end of February. I would prefer to wait for April when it gets a little warmer before taking them down. Of course, when you live in the same place for a while, sometimes you just leave them up all year round.
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Tilly Bud - The Laughing Housewife
Oct 29, 2012 @ 06:08:17
Tickle me Tuesday, Witty Wednesday, Facetious Friday, Silly Saturday, Side-splitting Sunday.
I’ve got nothing for Thursday.
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benzeknees
Oct 29, 2012 @ 09:22:57
Great ideas Tilly (Linda)! I was coming up blank. Got some great ideas, thinking I’ll have to put it to a vote – just wish I knew how to use the Vote button. I’ll just have to do it the old fashioned way & count comments till someone much smarter than me can help me out with instructions.
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Tilly Bud - The Laughing Housewife
Oct 29, 2012 @ 10:04:48
Just use the poll button when you create or edit a post.
Where it says Upload/Insert there are three buttons. The round, middle one is the poll button. It’s pretty straightforward but WP have a good tutorial if you get stuck.
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benzeknees
Oct 29, 2012 @ 10:15:07
I’ll have to give this a try, thanks!
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