Posts Tagged With: quarters

Every Year Has a January 2 in It

Things change all the time. Relationships change. Politics change Food prices change. Computers change. Change change; the back of our quarters vary with each passing year. Synonyms mutate.  And even years change! Leap years have a February 29 in them. Other years don’t. Or so we thought! Isn’t nearly every 100th year bereft of a February 29?

Is life just a whirlwind? Is nothing constant? Surely, there must be some unyielding constant in our lives, something that makes us shout, “Yes, yes, we can tether our emotions and sanity to this touchstone.”

Fortunately, there is such a rock.

Every year possesses a January 2. Every. Single. Year.

You can check your old calendars. I show a past January calendar as proof.

You can now hold on to your sanity.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Word: Hopolodo

Sometimes a word is so useful and necessary that it has been crying in the ether to be coined. Once used, we all wonder, “It’s so obvious now. How do we ever get along without that word?”

In today’s blog, we celebrate such an occurrence.

We’ve all found change on the ground. Lucky for us! But not so fortunate for the person who lost the money. We’ve been that person as well. Maybe we lost a dollar. Maybe we lost it in the 60s when we could have purchased a simple board game or even 20 packs of Topps(tm) baseball cards. Most often we lost this change through a hole in our pocket.

This financial loss leads us to

TODAY’S AWESOME WORD

Hopolodo

Awesome entry #26

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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I hope I Have Enough Quarters

Not too far from where I live is a business called “Coin Mart Jewelry.”

They sell valuable coins. They have a market for coins, hence “Coin Mart.”

They also sell jewelry, which is why that word is also in their name.

­However,  my first impression was that you needed coins to buy jewelry at their mart, just like at one time you had to have four quarters to buy a cheese sandwich, In this case, buying a $4,000 diamond necklace would require 16,000 quarters. I imagine it would be frustrating to discover that after putting in 15,999 quarters into the slot, that you were one quarter short. Look at the vending machine below and mentally replace the sandwich with a pearl necklace. Such is the way I think.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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