Month: October, 2010

Don’t be that guy

20 October, 2010 (12:00) | Poll the People

[poll id=”5″] Spurred from Hall’s Rule of Social Order #103. The Ramones did it.  Tom Delonge did it.  Some fans say it’s like wearing uniforms in sports. Some fans think’s it silly that you can wear a sport jersey to a game, but you can’t wear a band’s tshirt to their concert.  Maybe it’s a […]

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Hall’s Rules of Social Order #255

18 October, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

Placing blame is pointless and anti-progressive.  You’re living in and focusing on the past instead of moving forward.  If someone takes the blame, that’s productive, because it stops people from wanting to place blame. Move on, but learn from what has happened.

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no constellation at the belly but they got the machine to make ’em come off, come on.

15 October, 2010 (12:00) | Ramblings

I hate dress socks.  Why do I have to wear them? Because that’s what society says is normal and acceptable to be considered “dressed up”?  Not good enough. Because they’re dark?  How about I got a pair of WHITE dress socks in a variety pack.  WTF???  When would I EVER want to wear white dress […]

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Let’s rewrite an ending that fits

13 October, 2010 (12:00) | Little Things

I love it when my bill comes to something like $8.01 and the cashier either takes a penny from the change cup or just tells me not to worry about it.  The latter is the more impressive and impacting of the two.  To think that they’re more driven make the transaction a nice and simple […]

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Hall’s Rules of Social Order #58

11 October, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

Do your best to avoid creating problems for yourself and your offspring.  IE: if you chose a name for them that is in any way entertaining, that’s setting them up to be taunted.  They’re name should be easy to pronounce correctly (phonetics works).  I knew someone named Parker Brothers, Chris Cross, and Secretia.  Those are […]

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How a Look Sounds

8 October, 2010 (12:00) | Wax Poetic

You were odd, and I was awed by the scene that I’ve seen one thousand times in TIME’s big story I read in big bold red capital letters, capitol letters to the Prince of Persia, prints of presents to be bestowed in his presence by a maid who made the room appear like a pier […]

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