feb23 in idea barrages

1.) The opposite of “Mother Superior” is “Nun The Less”.

2.) Jim Morrison was an avid fan of Tupperware parties and would often sell from Door-to-Door.

3.) Why did they call the clothing line “Carhart” when they could’ve just called it “Engine?”

4.) In Soviet Russia, the radio star killed video in a glorious counter-revolution but then, five years later, angry peasants killed the radio star anyway. It’s a vicious cycle.

5.) Today, convince one person that decades ago, someone mis-typed the word “pizzas” as “pizzaz”, said “uh, no, it’s a real word that means, like, uh, style!” someone else believed them and it spread across the world.

6.) Weird how the power of positive thinking seems to only work for people selling books or workshops about positive thinking, almost like magical thinking only works to con people who want to believe in magical thinking out of their money. That’s the real “Secret”?

7.) A charming and competent if klutzy FBI agent is sent back in time to prevent the Kennedy Assassination in MISS CONGENIALITY 4: THE MAGIC BULLOCK THEORY.

8.) This week in Medications Whose Generic Names When Split Into Two Words Sound Like NPR Reporters: COSENTYX (secukinumab). “Reporting from Culver City, Secuki Numab, NPR West.”