Laugh of the Day

A few days ago I was having some work done at my local garage. A blonde came in and asked for a seven-hundred-ten. We all looked at each other and another customer asked, “What is a seven-hundred-ten?”

She replied, “You know, the little piece in the middle of the engine, I have lost it and need a new one.” She replied that she did not know exactly what it was, but this piece had always been there.

The mechanic gave her a piece of paper and a pen and asked her to draw what the piece looked like. She drew a circle and in the middle of it wrote 710. He then took her over to another car which had its hood up and asked “is there a 710 on this car?”

She pointed and said, “Of course, it’s right there.”

If you’re not sure what a 710 is, Click Here.

Editing Tip(s) of the Day

Today’s tip is on paragraphs. When starting a story, most people don’t know that the first paragraph is NOT indented. A new, indented line tells you that you've come to a break between two paragraphs. The first paragraph doesn’t come after a break. It doesn’t need an indent. Neither does the first after a subheading.
   Some people start with a drop cap or bold the first few words. I’ve even seen some start out with the first three words capitalized and bolded (I used this method on VCO articles).
   Now on the second paragraph, you can indent (just a few space, not a gaping hole!) to signify the start of a new paragraph, or you can double-space between paragraphs, BUT then you would NOT indent—that would be redundant.
   I've used the indent method on this article. I prefer the double-space method in my articles as you can see from prior posts. Here's just one reference:
spider.georgetowncollege.edu/t3/wsr/csc120/ruler97.htm

T-Shirt of the Day

Today’s t-shirt was inspired by the following video (music by sickpuppy, and amazingly viewed over 19.27 million times): www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4

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Photo of the Day

The wildfires raging in southern California reminded me of today's photo. This awesome picture was taken in Bitterroot National Forest in Montana on August 6, 2000. The photographer, John McColgan, is a fire behavior analyst from Fairbanks, Alaska. He took the picture with a digital camera. Because he was working at the time he took the picture he cannot profit from it; however, the picture is a once-in-a-lifetime shot and should be shared.

Today's Words to Define

auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
chicanery

auspicious: \ô-spĭsh'əs\; promising success; propitious; opportune; favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate; attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success.
belie: \bĭ-lī'\; to show to be false; contradict; to misrepresent; to act unworthily according to the standards of (a tradition, one's ancestry, one's faith, etc.)
bellicose: \běl'ĭ-kōs'\; inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious; warlike or hostile in manner or temperament; having or showing a ready disposition to fight.
bowdlerize: \bōd'lə-rīz', boud'-\; to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
chicanery: \shĭ-kā'nə-rē, chĭ-\; deception by trickery or sophistry; the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).