The Word of the Day

I recently signed up for The Word of the Day daily emails from Dictionary.com.

One word I received is a bit curious:

pusillanimous \pyoo-suh-LAN-uh-muhs\, adjective:

Lacking in courage and resolution; contemptibly fearful; cowardly.

Evil, unspeakable evil, rose in our midst, and we as a people were too weak, too indecisive, too pusillanimous to deal with it.-- Kevin Myers, "An Irishman's Diary", Irish Times, October 20, 1999

Under the hypnosis of war hysteria, with a pusillanimous Congress rubber-stamping every whim of the White House, we passed the withholding tax.-- Vivien Kellems, Toil, Taxes and Trouble

You are now anxious to form excuses to yourself for a conduct so pusillanimous.-- Ann Radcliffe, The Italian

Pusillanimous comes from Late Latin pusillanimis, from Latin pusillus, "very small, tiny, puny" + animus, "soul, mind."

I think we all use the shorter, 5 letter version of pusillanimous more often, don’t cha???

Happy Monday.

- The Mountain Cat

Forget Oprah...The 'Mystery' Visitor to Kannapolis was ...

It wasn't Oprah all along who caused the Dale Earnhardt flags to be taken down in Kannapolis it was much MUCH worse. We had to take those banners down for a federal convict. It was Martha Stewart.

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart was the guest of a billionaire developer who prompted local officials to take down flags honoring the late NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt in his hometown, newspapers reported Friday.
Stewart visited the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis on Thursday with David Murdock, the campus founder and owner of Dole Food Co.
Stewart said she would take ideas from the campus to her Center for Living at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Last week, city workers took down flags honoring Earnhardt after an official at Murdock's real estate company and a local tourism official said some were dirty and torn and might upset a Murdock guest, who wasn't identified.

The 350-acre biotech complex was started in February 2006. Murdock's real estate company, Castle & Cooke, is developing the campus.
"It's fascinating to see something happening in such a short time," Stewart told the Salisbury Post after the tour. "The effort should be applauded."
Stewart took photos out the window as Murdock drove her around the complex and strolled through Cannon Village, a shopping area near the former Cannon Mills complex where the campus is being constructed.

This is just terrible. I have managed to uncover a picture taken of Martha touring Cannon Village though...

-Doc

Happy Friday

Top Ten Things Doc is NOT Doing on His Vacation This Week

10. Braiding Manny Ramirez’s dreadlocks at Dodger Stadium.

9. Freebasing Goody’s Headache Powder.

8. Watching Yo Gabba Gabba in bed with Tila Tequila, Jennifer Wilbanks, Heather Mills and Flo from the Progressive Insurance TV Ads.

7. Training with Joey Chestnut for the 2009 Hot Dog Eating Contest.

6. Eating a peach.

5. Cleaning Amy Winehouse’s hospital bed sores.

4. Kissing bricks at The Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

3. Partying with the mud chicks from Rocklohoma.

2. Shower.

1. Playing Margaritaville on the Rock Band SharKart.

Have a good vacation Doc and Family Doc.

- The Mountain Cat

Meet Princess Chunk

BLACKWOOD, N.J. - Talk about New Jersey's fat cats. A 44-pound feline was found waddling around Saturday without a collar in Voorhees, and officials at the Camden County Animal Shelter hope she gets a nice — hopefully, diet-friendly — home.

"She's built like a quarterback," said Deborah Wright, a shelter volunteer and current foster owner of the kitty. "I mean, how do you lose a 44-pound cat?!"

Shelter officials are calling the porky cutie "Princess Chunk."

"I'm about to put a leash on her and walk her," said Wright. "She could pass for a dog!"

Good Grief... Somebody help this poor cat! Vince you could use a pet couldn't you?

-Doc

"Weird Al" Wednesday

Since we had so much fun last Wednesday making up song lyrics about Tila Tequila, I decided to start a new feature here at YJKOBT. It is called "Weird Al" Wednesday. A tribute to the legendary song parodist ''Weird Al'' Yankovic.

This is how we play: I pick a topic, then we make up song lyrics to the beat of popular songs based on that topic.

Today's topic is Gas Prices.

Let's kick off the fun with my version of the irksome, yet ever popular John Mayer song 'Say'.

Enjoy:

Take all of your hard earned dollars,

To the gas stations.
Which causes your money problems.
And then you feel frustration.
Instead you need to,

Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas

You need to start walking.
Fighting the oil men instead.
Living without your Moped.
Knowing you’d be better off instead.
Instead you need to,

Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas

*Cough* Sorry if I sang out of tune. I hope that made sense? Then again, neither does the original John Mayer song! Hee hee.

So does anyone else have any song ideas about the dismal state of Gas Prices?

Ohhh I bet you have goodies for me. I can't wait!

- The Mountain Cat

Here is something for you to think about....

Tuesday Word game is taking a couple of weeks off while I am on vacation and travelling next week. It will return on August 12. In the meantime I stumbled across this article about a guy who has mysteriously been depositing millions of dollars in decomposing money over the course of a few years and he has no good responses about where it came from. Maybe from a buried treasure in Mexico maybe from a land deal. Who knows?

After reading this article and a blog post by Dana yesterday my question for you is this. Lets say that you stumbled upon over 5 million dollars of old worn out money in a field somewhere while you were out walking. This field is private property but not owned by you. What would you do? The whole process... from start to finish. Leave it? Take it and try to deposit it? Store it somewhere? Try to buy the field? Take just some of it? Hide it elsewhere yourself? What is your plan? How will you answer if people start asking questions? Will you tell your family and friends? What would you spend it on? Give it some thought and tell me a story about how and what you will do with the money.

-Doc

Happy Monday

Good morning and happy Monday all.

-Doc

What the hel *HICCUP*

Doc & Micky-T both get a Golden Lion for coming up with Bicycle Races on this slow Friday.
Plus I am drinking some Jim Be...James Beam...Jim Beet...John Booh....whiskey right now.
Right LeapO' Faith?

Enjoy you bastids!

*THUD*

- TMC

***Jennifer and Jay can share too as I am catching up on my comments****