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Connotation. 1. a. The configuration of suggestive or associative implications consitiuting the general sense of an abstract espression beyond its literal, explicit sense. b. A secondary
meaning suggested by a word in addition to its literal meaning. 3. Logic The total of the attributes constituting the meaning of a term.
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- Sven has been with d-con since its humble beginnings, and is responsible for punctuating, finances,
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holds an important office in the department of redundancy. Henry also spent a good deal of his life studying the behavior of Walruses (Walri?) in the wild, inspired by a long-running correspondence with Mr. J. Lennon, who, in fact, convinced "The Orange" that he was, in fact, a walrus. Dr. Parsons' curriculum vitae is rounded out by his extensive family history (including a brother, Alan), and double Ph.D. honors in Botany and the Study of Scandinavian Languages.
Recently, Dr. Henry Parsons was elected president of the UPICN,LLC
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The beheading of John the Baptist and that one time when Stanley met Livingstone (or was it Livingstone met Stanley?)
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German.
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- Dr. Phelealabean also uses the alias Dr. Olga Olathe Parsons-Uhlmer. Dr. Parsons-Uhlmer is a sister to Henry and Alan. She has a dual honorary doctorate in Arabian Literature and Language. She also has teaching experience at the University of Rekjavik which was held in a small grass-covered hut. She iswidowed after an incident involving her husband and abandonment which she is not allowed to discuss pending criminal charges. Now that she is alone, she enjoys spending summers with her brother, Henry, in his summer home, The Parsonon.
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1.21.2005
In the spirit (if not the style or the language) of Pascal's PenseŽs and Nietzsche's "Maxims and Arrows":
Erste Teil: Variations on a theme
- 1. If I were a red-state, bible-belt, conservative christian voter, i would be quite upset with a president i voted for because of his "moral values" and his stance against gay marriage who then decided that the issue wasn't important enough to deal with.
- 2. Carson Kressley's homosexuality is like Steve Irwin's australian accent.
Zweite Teil: BŸcher
- 1. Being There. I thought the book was better than the movie - but that may be merely because I prefer books to movies.
- 2. Lolita. So beautifully written you could almost forget that it's about a man who wants to molest preadolescent anorexics.
- 3. Crime and Punishment. Yeah.
- 4. The Little Prince I've heard a lot about this book. I finally read it. It was totally different from anything I've ever expected it to be. And amazing. Highly recommended!
Dritte Teil Talking Heads and Anchorpersons
- Peter Jennings: Pretty cool, nice voice. And Canadian. Easy to see why he was my favorite for years and years. . .
- Bill O'Reilly: My favorite thing about this man is that he walked out of the Fresh Air interview with Terri (Terry?) Gross. I would love to be Ms. Gross for a day - she has the most fascinating job in the world. But she's not really that scary - just goes to show how well Mr. O'R. can stand up on the other side of the clipboard.
- Jennifer Lopez: No, really. She's on the weather channel. You may be surprised.
- Dan Rather: "It doesn't matter if the story is true or not. . . If I report it, it's IMPORTANT". Plus the "liberal Bias". I've never actually watched him through an entire episode. (Is that what one calls the half-hour news program?)
- Brian Williams: Ooh, he's pretty! Yum!
- Jim Lehrer: Most notable for being confused with the other Lehrer with a common male name. (It's the old peddlar, dope!) And actually giving more than the headlines.
{Of course, the previous discussion is entirely academic. My actual grasp of the news comes from various extremely biased bloggers, NPR, and the greatest political mind of our time, Jon Stewart}
--Posted by s. on Friday, January 21, 2005.
1.16.2005
More Randomosity:
eins: My favorite Knock-Knock joke:
Knock Knock
Who's there
Knock
Knock Who?
Knock Knock
Who's . .what? What the? I'm confused
zwei: A really bad Star Trek joke:
Scotty, Beam us aboard!
Yes, Cap'n. Will a two-by-four be sufficient
drei: I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. - Groucho Marx
--Posted by s. on Sunday, January 16, 2005.
A few quite random items:
2. I did the NY Times crossword puzzle. The newspaper prints it right next to the horoscopes. I wonder why? Anyway, one segment of the horoscope caught my attention:
"The stars are like a giant cosmic vacuum cleaner lifting foreign particles from your life. But you love the foreign particles! It's disorder that makes life interesting!"
I'm not sure what that means - and I'm not going to tell you what sign it is for. Since it doesn't really matter.
4. You've heard the classic country song "Don't fence me in"? Who wrote it? Look it up, you may be surprised.
1. Notice how my numbers are quite random as well.
--Posted by s. on Sunday, January 16, 2005.
1.12.2005
I return. My absence has been a very long one and it is with deep sincerity that I apologize for it. My life has changed a lot in these last several months. I no longer on a daily basis have the accompaniment of my dear web of colleagues that I cherished so much. I have become closer to other friends whom I have learned to trust and confide in and them the same but its still wholly different. If only the most enjoyable (and not that my life isn't enjoyable) parts of life were like an incandescent light bulb!
We as society are becoming dumb. Part of becoming dumb begins with becoming numb to what happens around us. I have learned to become a little more excepting of those things which I used to repel from. I have decided to spend life in sponge-mode, that is...constantly absorbing knowledge wherever it can be found. All knowledge is not worth knowing however.
I have learned that perfection can only be achieved if nothing is remotely perfect to begin with and that philosophy is momentarily beneficial to the excessive ramblings of an absorbant mind and perpetually irritable to those who listen. I would apologize for rambling but why admit humility for something that is necessary to relieve tension? Biological (and no doubt physical) systems are all about moments of constriction versus moments of contraction (fancy way of saying patterned change).
The one plus to not having people around who can be fellow sardines in the can, is that I have learned to handle some of my stresses differently. I can talk to my best friend in the entire world every night by phone or MSN (yes, I have adopted instant message communication as an experimental means of examining what is so darn convenient about it. Turns out, I kind of like it...it actually does have a purpose besides aimless chatting between hormonally rampant teenagers....no pun or sarcasm present, lets examine this for truth.) but not seeing him everyday is just different. I am being told to learn how to say "no" something the rest of the world has been screaming at me since time began. But as you must know, excessively organized speech judges often spend more time attempting to organize then actually pay attention to what is going on or let alone get any work done!
All of this is background noise in the life of Dr. Henry Parsons. I am firmly secure in my quest for ascertaining my career and am proud of what is yet to come :).
As a final note, discovery is quite a find. When you discover something always know that just because you've discovered it doesn't mean it is by any means "new". Discovery is just the act of finding not the act of rethinking whatever it is you may or may not know. Intuition comes next.
My humble apologies to all of the coaches pretending to be teachers, drug dealers, e-Terrorists, and pretentious skinks among others whom I have offended. I am just a speech judge not a writing coach.
Haha!
Crazy!
Loveable!
--Dr. Henry Parsons
Certified Speech Judge
Clinically Undetermined
--Posted by Kelly D. Norris on Wednesday, January 12, 2005.
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