February 01, 2006
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ryan and TMK But Were Afraid to Ask
Not being, as I said, a follower of popular fads, I shriek and run, arms flapping, when I encounter one of those myriad “personality tests” or similar “applets” that infest the Net, but, apparently, I can be bought because this one was just too funny to pass up. Nos. 5, 6, 9, 10 had me ROTFLMAOWPIMP.
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Ryan Morrissey!
- More people are killed by Ryan Morrissey each year than die in aeroplane accidents.
- During World War II, Americans tried to train Ryan Morrissey to drop bombs.
- Snow White's coffin was made of Ryan Morrissey.
- It is bad luck to light three cigarettes with the same Ryan Morrissey.
- Ryan Morrissey can pollinate up to six times more efficiently than the honeybee.
- Over 2000 people have now climbed Ryan Morrissey, with roughly ten percent dying on the way down.
- Ryan Morrissey can squeeze her entire body through a hole the size of her beak.
- Oranges, lemons, watermelons, pineapples and Ryan Morrissey are all berries!
- The colour of Ryan Morrissey is no indication of her spiciness, but size usually is!
- The risk of being struck by Ryan Morrissey is one occurrence every 9,300 years!
And because I couldn’t resist:
Ten Top Trivia Tips about TMK!
- TMK can run sixty-five kilometres an hour - that's really fast.
- The Australian billygoat plum contains a hundred times more Vitamin C than TMK.
- TMK is 1500 years older than the pyramids!
- There are six towns named TMK in the United States.
- If the annual Australian TMK crop was laid end to end, it would stretch around the world seven times!
- TMK can eat up to four kilograms of insects in a single night!
- Apples are covered with a thin layer of TMK.
- Over 46,000 pieces of TMK float on every square mile of ocean.
- Ostriches stick their heads in TMK not to hide but to look for water.
- The moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than TMK, and 400 times smaller.
What I really want to know is what, really, are they talking about in #8. 46,000 pieces of what float on every square mile of ocean? Maybe I don’t want to know. (Found the answer: Plastic debris. I thought it was going to be whale poop. Sigh. There’s just no excuse for the way my mind works.)
And for those of you who didn’t have enough beer on Monday—now do you see the frickin' squirrel?
And for those of you who loyally stuck by me during the "red, white and black" fracas, TMK says, "Now do you see the frickin' blue?"
While on the subject of the Knitting Olympics, I want to acknowledge the following people, all of whom have committed their Knitting Olympics time to knitting for Dulaan:
Isela - 16 items for Dulaan
Lavender - a hat a day for the Dulaan Project
Mary Lee (unless I am mistaken, this is "our" Mary Lee) - 16 hats for the Dulaan Project
Nancy - charity and stash knitting for Dulaan
Peggy - 8 items for Dulaan Project
Tracey - 10 items for Dulaan Project
Also, Isela created this great button:
It feels as if, ever since I posted the pictures of the Mongolian children receiving the knitted items, interest in Dulaan has really skyrocketed. Thank you, everyone!!
Just because the answer was "plastic debris", doesn't mean there aren't ALSO 46,000 pieces of whale poop floating on each square mile of ocean...
(and now are you going to do a blue and peach whale-poop fair isle sweater?)
And of course, I had to try my own name. The two that stand out are:
Marie Antoinette never said 'let them eat cake' - this is a mistranslation of 'let them eat Carrie'. (oh my)
To check whether Carrie is safe to eat, drop her in a bowl of water; rotten Carrie will sink, and fresh Carrie will float!
(I sense a theme here.)
There was something else about protecting babies from me by bathing them in beer, but we KNOW that won't work.
Very sorry for the long comment, but you deserve it for introducing yet ANOTHER time waster into my work day... (and now I want some cake)
See, I *TOLD* you, Carrie--When you see time-wasters like this, you're supposed to shriek and run, arms flapping!
Posted by: Ryan on February 1, 2006 10:48 AMYour job is apparently much more interesting than mine.
Posted by: Carrie on February 1, 2006 10:57 AMyours indeed!
Posted by: marylee on February 1, 2006 01:11 PMI'm making a Dulaan sweater as part of my knitting Olympics!!
Posted by: Danielle on February 1, 2006 01:27 PMWE WON!!!
The January contest at 'the knitty professor' was to name our favorite charity and Michaele would pick one, make a contribution and give the winner a prize. I nominated The Dulaan Project and she picked us! My prize is a handknitted finger puppet from Guatemala (I chose the Ram)- tres cute -
http://theknittyprofessor.typepad.com/blog/2006/01/in_which_i_make.html
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My entry was:
Please look into The Dulaan Project:
We send hats, mittens, scarves, vests, neck warmers, etc. to Mongolian children who live in the ducts under the cities during the -40 degree winters.
Ryan at Mossy Cottage Knits originated the project and is the home base. She has pages on her blog detailing the needs and all other pertinent info.
(Mossy Cottage Knits blog addess here.)
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WE WON!!!!! YEA!!!!
Posted by: Childe on February 1, 2006 01:55 PMtoo funny lol...you don't look like you have a beak ryan ;o)
yes i see the squirrel...saw it the first time ;o)
before, the button was red-white-and prettydamnnearblackbutstillsortablue....now it's red-white-and-periwinkle ;o) sorry tmk!!
Posted by: laurie on February 1, 2006 02:55 PMOh, there's the darned squirrel! Now I see it. No wonder, I've never gotten those stupid funky-art psychadelic posters.
Posted by: Samina on February 1, 2006 03:05 PMI would say it's more of a wedgewood.
Posted by: Carrie on February 1, 2006 03:28 PMI would definitely be comforted more by the answer "whale poop" than plastic debris. That is just about as sad a thing as I can think of.
Posted by: Norma on February 1, 2006 06:13 PMI was sucked in by the trivia generator, but my first set of answers were so eerily accurate that I had to save them. Then I spent an hour trying get them to publish on my shiny new blog. I'm especially fond of my #4: Melinda has a memory span of three seconds!
So, umm, yeah, this is the first time I've remotely publically announced the existence of my blog. Come visit.
The last one on mine says "Lee Ann Balazuc is incapable of sleep."
I'm afraid my husband would have to agree with that one...
I love this quiz because (a) I nearly fell off my chair laughing, (b) I'm smarter than a porpoise, and (c) you *can't* plug in your name again and get different answers if you don't like the ones you got. (Why yes, I tried. Excuse me, but the thought of me giving a higher yield if milked while listening to music was not really tripping my trigger, and I most certainly *have* said "Play it again, Sam"...and let's not even discuss what has to be done to me to make rhinocerous horn. Too painful.)
Posted by: Lee Ann on February 2, 2006 06:41 AMYay for the button! And I'm proud to be on Team Dulaan.
Posted by: Nancy on February 2, 2006 06:58 AMI'm crying (with laughter). Poor TMK. Poor ostriches!
Posted by: Rabbitch on February 2, 2006 07:32 AMThe word 'samba' means 'to rub lisa smith'.
Har. got me laughing and I couldn't stop...
Posted by: Lisa in Oregon on February 2, 2006 07:42 AMAHHHHHHHHHHhahahaha!
#6: The state nickname of Iowa is 'The Cuzzin Tom state'.
#8: You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching Cuzzin Tom!
Posted by: Cuzzin Tom on February 2, 2006 08:16 AMMy favorites:
Purlewe is physically incapable of sticking her tongue out. *funny that I seem to do it to people all the time.*
Baby swans are called purlewe! *but with the contradictory statement that follows am I to believe swans are extinct?*
Purlewe was declared extinct in 1902.
Purlewe is worth her weight in gold - literally. *o my.. now where is my bank acct?*
The first toy product ever advertised on television was Mr Purlewe Head. *rothlmao*
Hope you two are well.
Posted by: anj on February 2, 2006 08:33 AMDo you think that Gilbert Gottfried or Don Rickles writes those lines in that quiz ^..^
The 'Newest" Dulaan button is ever so cool.
XOXO
Actually, Martha, that wacky little program seems to take random sentences from the Net and just substitutes your name for the subject noun.
That's why I was able to find out what objects were floating in the ocean. I just Googled for all of that sentence minus "TMK" and found it in its original, correct (and slightly more realistic!) form on another page!
Who comes up with this stuff anyway?
Posted by: Ryan on February 2, 2006 11:11 AMDearest Ryan,
I hope I am not being too forward but I LOVE you!!!!! Thanks for leaving the chai tea latte recipe link on my blog. Not only did I do a happy dance but I also screamed "Ryan you are my hero and I love you!" This of course caught my husband's attention but once I explained the situation he too did a happy dance and sang your praises.
Thanks!!!!!
Posted by: Bonnie on February 2, 2006 01:09 PMEr, quick explanation to TMK, the same way Bonnie had to make a quick explanation to her husband: Bonnie is an American living in Costa Rica and, perusing her blog today, I saw that, if she had any wish in the world, it would be to be able to zip back to the U.S. just long enough to get a Starbucks chai tea latte. So I found a recipe online and posted in a comment on her blog. Which is why she loves me. Who knew that getting someone's conditional and undying and forever love would be that simple! Apparently the way to a (wo)man's heart IS through her stomach!
Posted by: Ryan on February 2, 2006 01:15 PMAzure, I would say, which is definitely a blue.
Posted by: Donna in Virginia on February 2, 2006 03:28 PMOH! The squirrel is BLUE! I was having an Escher moment and trying to figure out how the PINK part made a squirrel..... heh.
Posted by: CarolineF on February 2, 2006 06:09 PMSuch a good idea, dulaan knitting, because I had that idea too. I am a double eventer, a something for me, and eight pairs of mittens, one a day. That shouldn't be an injury risk? You're going to need a button soon if this idea catches on.
Posted by: julia fc on February 2, 2006 08:33 PMI only just heard about your project but I'm sure the pictures helped a lot. I mean, once you personalize it and you see all those children wearing the items . . . honestly, how can you not want to start knitting for them? The story of them not wanting to take the items off too . . . so precious.
I knit for people who accept my items and thank me . . . but honestly, when will you ever have such an excited recipient of your knitted item?!?
Posted by: celticknitter on February 3, 2006 07:09 AMMy arms flap no matter what I'm doing. *sigh*
Posted by: Bling! on February 3, 2006 09:53 AMAnother one here who was looking for the squirrel in the pink. Now I see it.
And that blue in the button? That's Tiffany blue. Way cool.
Posted by: Kirsten on February 3, 2006 09:56 AMIt looks like we were right in being afraid to ask. A beak??!! And TMK is competing with the poor hummingbirds!
Posted by: Patti on February 3, 2006 10:17 AM