<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473785866644453340</id><updated>2012-02-16T12:42:56.844-08:00</updated><category term='redundancy'/><category term='checks'/><category term='Funeral'/><category term='checking account'/><category term='death'/><title type='text'>freaknoid</title><subtitle type='html'>Helping stooped peopul live beter lives.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3473785866644453340/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>David Arment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13185841034082900911</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4_GPya2C9TY/SYX2-zTwizI/AAAAAAAAAU0/kIEiwGFEsyM/S220/_DSC7826.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473785866644453340.post-7187551538601907726</id><published>2011-09-05T09:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-06T04:35:09.692-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Go sleep on the couch</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;It's called PMS because "Mad Cow's Disease" was already taken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3473785866644453340-7187551538601907726?l=www.freaknoid.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/feeds/7187551538601907726/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/2011/09/go-sleep-on-couch.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3473785866644453340/posts/default/7187551538601907726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3473785866644453340/posts/default/7187551538601907726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/2011/09/go-sleep-on-couch.html' title='Go sleep on the couch'/><author><name>David Arment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13185841034082900911</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4_GPya2C9TY/SYX2-zTwizI/AAAAAAAAAU0/kIEiwGFEsyM/S220/_DSC7826.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473785866644453340.post-1530018527757502020</id><published>2011-09-04T21:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-05T05:57:39.428-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='redundancy'/><title type='text'>Repetitve and Redundant</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Before                we get started today, The Freak wants to address the annoying habit people                have of being redundant and saying the same things over and over                again. It is really annoying and the people that do it should stop                immediately if not sooner. If you have something to say the best                thing to do is to say it simply, and clearly so that we can all                understand what you are saying and then go on to the next thing.                Don't just keep us there while you repeat what we already heard                when you said whatever it was you said the first time. What do you                think we are stoopid? Are we so dumb that you have to say it again?                We got it the first time! Move on and stop repeating the same things.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;               &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;There                are those that are exceptionally good at this because they will                say the same things and be overly redundant, by using different                phrases to repeat what they have already said as though we are dumb                animals or small children who didn't get it the first time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;But                what really fries The Freak's cork (where did that saying come from,                someone please email The Freakster about this fried cork thing. It may be                very important.) are those people who ask you to repeat what they                said to you so that they can be sure that you got it. Okay, so we                forgot something once. We are human aren't we? What ever happened                to "love your neighbor on top of thyself?" So everyone                lived, right? The hospital stay was a nice little vacation if you                choose to look at it that way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;So                if The Freak repeats stuff you should know that this redundancy is purely                unintentional and very accidental because The Freak, finds it                really annoying and unnecessary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Copyright, David L Arment 2011. All rights reserved.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3473785866644453340-1530018527757502020?l=www.freaknoid.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/feeds/1530018527757502020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/2011/09/repetitve-and-redundant.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3473785866644453340/posts/default/1530018527757502020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3473785866644453340/posts/default/1530018527757502020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/2011/09/repetitve-and-redundant.html' title='Repetitve and Redundant'/><author><name>David Arment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13185841034082900911</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4_GPya2C9TY/SYX2-zTwizI/AAAAAAAAAU0/kIEiwGFEsyM/S220/_DSC7826.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473785866644453340.post-3399460704348419327</id><published>2011-09-03T13:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-03T13:30:58.700-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='death'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Funeral'/><title type='text'>My Funeral</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Today I came to the horrible realization that no one is going to come to my funeral. &lt;br /&gt;Of course I am going to have to die first. Then after that, (the death &lt;br /&gt;thing) no one is going to come. I realized this when I thought if I were &lt;br /&gt;not me I would certainly not go to my funeral. Since I am me, I am probably &lt;br /&gt;stuck with HAVING to go, otherwise I would skip it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;This all got started when some of us were in a car and we passed a cemetery. There &lt;br /&gt;were lots of colorful flowers in the cemetery. This is not easy as there &lt;br /&gt;is still snow on the ground here. (Please get with Al Gore and hurry that &lt;br /&gt;global warming thing along if you could.) So we put tow and tow together &lt;br /&gt;which is better than putting two and two together and came to the conclusion &lt;br /&gt;that the flowers were plastic. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;I asked those in the car to be sure when I die that I have fresh plastic flowers &lt;br /&gt;on my grave. I am sure that after a few months they get bleached out from &lt;br /&gt;the sun and so I want to be sure they are always fresh. There was complete &lt;br /&gt;silence. It was clear no one was going to out every few months and put &lt;br /&gt;fresh plastic flowers on my grave. I would do it myself, but the being &lt;br /&gt;dead thing will be a problem. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;We drove by a place where they sell grave stones. I am just guessing that having &lt;br /&gt;this business near the cemetery was not an accident. Inside you could &lt;br /&gt;see they were selling plastic flowers. I am sure they were lovely and &lt;br /&gt;fresh. Maybe they even smelled of new plastic.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;I love that smell.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;I am going to write to the association of cemetery head markers and suggest that &lt;br /&gt;they provide a service where they go out every few months and put fresh, &lt;br /&gt;plastic flowers on your grave. It would be like a pre-payer plan. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;I also want someone while they are there to say a prayer and cry a little. This could &lt;br /&gt;be a new profession, professional griever. When the professional griever &lt;br /&gt;comes to my grave to cry, it needs to be a heartfelt cry. I would pay &lt;br /&gt;move for “heartfelt”. This would be very nice especially if there were &lt;br /&gt;people nearby who could look over and see someone crying by my grave. &lt;br /&gt;I would pay more for “heartfelt” and if people were looking on. I am not &lt;br /&gt;sure how to work that into the contact for services. There are good lawyers &lt;br /&gt;who could figure that out.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Or maybe I could just have someone come into the cemetery and take flowers off &lt;br /&gt;of other people’s graves and put them on mine. Who is going to know? And &lt;br /&gt;dead people don’t usually complain. This would likely get me a discount &lt;br /&gt;from the professional griever. I will likely have to pay a lot for a whole &lt;br /&gt;host (host is a good word in reference to death and dying), of professional &lt;br /&gt;grievers for the funeral.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;No one is coming. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;The only person coming is Keith because I told him he could play his favorite video &lt;br /&gt;clip of the monkeys telling the penguin joke at my funeral. Keith and &lt;br /&gt;the professional grievers - that will be it. You won't know cause you &lt;br /&gt;won't be there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;(Reprinted from previous freaknoid web site.)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Copyright, David L Arment 2011. All rights reserved. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3473785866644453340-3399460704348419327?l=www.freaknoid.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/feeds/3399460704348419327/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/2011/09/my-funeral.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3473785866644453340/posts/default/3399460704348419327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3473785866644453340/posts/default/3399460704348419327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/2011/09/my-funeral.html' title='My Funeral'/><author><name>David Arment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13185841034082900911</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4_GPya2C9TY/SYX2-zTwizI/AAAAAAAAAU0/kIEiwGFEsyM/S220/_DSC7826.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473785866644453340.post-7786615171052298351</id><published>2011-09-02T20:34:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-02T20:34:35.594-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='checks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='checking account'/><title type='text'>Balancing Act</title><content type='html'>I can't be overdrawn, I still have checks. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3473785866644453340-7786615171052298351?l=www.freaknoid.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/feeds/7786615171052298351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/2011/09/balancing-act.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3473785866644453340/posts/default/7786615171052298351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3473785866644453340/posts/default/7786615171052298351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.freaknoid.com/2011/09/balancing-act.html' title='Balancing Act'/><author><name>David Arment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13185841034082900911</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4_GPya2C9TY/SYX2-zTwizI/AAAAAAAAAU0/kIEiwGFEsyM/S220/_DSC7826.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
