Throwing Little Thought Pebbles at Your Windshield Since 1996
Okay, so far today I came up with a 35 and a 34 letter sentence. I’ll probably keep trying. But I want to read the book, and the author keeps throwing out the efforts of the townspeople, and I don’t want to steal their good “z” words. Here are my two:
“Wave a box of crazy milk jug quilts, Daphne”
“Quick crazy hogs milk a box of new pet doves.” Oh crap, that one is missing a J. Back to the drawing board.
Oh, and I didn’t say they’d be GOOD sentences.
I currently reading Ella Minnow Pea : A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable, which I can’t summarize in this small space (so click the link and read the Amazon summary.)
So the main task facing the characters in this book is to create a sentence using only 32 letters, which employs all the letters of the alphabet, to replace “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”.
So now I can’t continue reading the book until I come up with my OWN sentence (35 letters or less, because quick brown is 35 letters) because I don’t want to cheat and be influenced by their sentence.
They sold the house across the street. There’s a lot of activity over there, with a lot of people involved, so it’s hard for me to tell who actually lives there and who is just helping. I think I’ve picked out the owner…he looks about my age, and he smokes (I say that, because he was standing on the front steps smoking when they delivered his fridge yesterday). Can’t tell if it’s a single guy or what. There are four cars over there now, so I’m not going to be able to figure out who’s who today.
When I told Junior that they’d sold the house, he did say he hoped the people like kids. Odd, I never expected him to be aware of people who do and don’t like kids. He must have picked that up somewhere.
I see that the news is finally discussing my jump in gas prices (I paid 1.29 today). This is the AP story:Yahoo! News – Gas Prices Begin National Climb “Analysts say a recent decision by OPEC (news – web sites) and other oil producers to hold down production, and the traditional spring rise in demand as driving time increases with the warming weather have shaped prices.”
They say it’s the biggest 4-week increase since they started keeping records in 1990.
