What I've Learned Today with Sources
1. You should not drive a Jeep over barbed wire, even when pressed.
2. Scallop looking clouds mean a change in the weather.
3. when making turkey gravy, Step 3: Spoon off the fat from atop the pan juices.
4. Chinese ships guided by rudimentary compasses reach India in 101 B.C
5. Malcolm likes to ring the doorbell
6. There are others who work to avoid the Progreso clown
7. You can definitely shear an alpaca
8. The afore-mentioned clouds are called either Altocumulus or Cirrocumulus
9. "Andale!" means about 5 different things
10. I've always wanted to write "After the jump"/not sure what it means to "Jump the shark"/not sure an ellipses is appropriate after the word "jump"/I love to write ellipses/I cannot spell ellipses/
Sources after the jump...
1. personal experience
2. malcolm drops science
3. Food Network.com Recipe courtesy of Giadda De Laurentiis
4. historychannel.com world timeline (rocks)
5. empirical evidence
6. Merida Insider
7. The Alpaca Blogger, found while searching for "Louit mayonnaise"
8. Google "Clouds and Weather"; the fourth page
9. dictionary.com Spanish word of the day Nov 17
10. desperation for a 10th item/I amuse myself unduly
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"Jumping the shark" refers to the episode of Happy Days where Fonzie jumps a shark while on water skis. It's completely ridiculous and heralded that the show needed to be ending very very soon. It has come to be used for any ridiculous moment where someone really must just stop, now!
Posted by: Riley & Tiki Mom | November 19, 2007 04:57 PM