Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: NoBloPoFothMoToDoPoPicInst

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

27 May 2009

NoBloPoFothMoToDoPoPicInst

Heard of NaBloPoMo? It's short for National Blog Posting Month or something. It's when bloggers decide to do a post once a day for a whole month. Disciplined blogging.

Well, I've decided to do something different. NoBloPoFothMoToDoPoPicInst. You'll be needing a phonemic transcription of that, so I've included that here:

And of course, that is short for "No Blog-Posting for the Moment - Too Dopey - Posting Pictures Instead." I could call it "Wordless Wednesday" but "NoBloPoFothMoToDoPoPicInst" is growing on me.

I loved that the spelling of "DIESEL" was altered from the original "DIESAL" to "DEISAL."

At least the Courier "GOES GOOD."

15 comments:

The Accidental Housewife said...: Hilarious. I love dodgy signs. I was up the top of Castle Hill in Townsville the other day and, on an engraved plaque on the commercially run binoculars, they had the word "veiw". Gold.; 27 May, 2009 19:32
Allegro ma non troppo said...: I think that will catch on, for sure.; 27 May, 2009 20:43
Hippomanic Jen said...: Tee hee.; 27 May, 2009 22:00
Femina said...: The suburb where I grew up has a street called "The Boulevarde". A few years ago the council redid all the street signs... and spelled it "The Boulervarde".; 27 May, 2009 23:26
Alison said...: Somewhere this person's English teacher is muttering to herself, "Where did I go wrong?"; 27 May, 2009 23:48
GreenJello said...: I catch stuff like this, too. I especially love misspellings on billboards and large vinyl signs.; 28 May, 2009 02:22
Joy said...: Where is the world. Can you imagine buying that vehicle from that person. Tyres????
That is too much.

♥
Joy
And I don't even know what you said above that, but I'll take your word for it.
:); 28 May, 2009 06:58
Lindethiel said...: hehehe classic. I love seeing incorrect signs, makes me feel just that little bit smarter for the day :); 28 May, 2009 10:38
CynthiaK said...: So, is NoBloPoFothMoToDoPoPicInst trademarked? I mean, are we able to join in your newly created entity? I think it sounds far more dynamic than Wordless Wednesday. I bet it goes good, too.; 28 May, 2009 12:54
Swift Jan said...: Heh!; 28 May, 2009 13:05
Femina said...: Joy - that's how we spell 'tyres' (tires) in Australia. It is NOT, however, how we spell diesel! :D; 28 May, 2009 16:35
musingwoman said...: I think Mary Poppins might even have trouble saying that. :); 29 May, 2009 11:32
♥ Boomer ♥ said...: Gotta LUV it!!! ;-)

Have a happy weekend!!!; 29 May, 2009 12:31
Joy said...: I didn't know about the tyres thing. So the entire ad looked like a spelling fiasco. haha.

I've learned something. :)

♥ Joy; 29 May, 2009 23:42
Loren said...: oh oh oh I totally saw that one recently! It was at that small shopping centre that starts with W!; 09 June, 2009 18:36

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I am a part-time speech pathologist, and try to cook, keep a garden alive and take photos that don’t make us look like we are pharmaceutically affected or dangerously homicidal.

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I came up with the pseudonym Givinya de Elba in highschool and it was based on a joke from an episode of Dad's Army called 'A Soldier's Farewell.'

In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

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27 May 2009

NoBloPoFothMoToDoPoPicInst

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