wacky

“I don’t understand your specific brand of crazy, but I do commend your devotion to it. -Truth to his ex”  ~~ Lani Lynn Vale

wacky – adj – “crazy, eccentric,” 1935, variant of whacky (n.) “fool,” late 1800s British slang, probably ultimately from whack “a blow, stroke,” from the notion of being whacked on the head one too many times.  Funny or amusing in a slightly odd or peculiar way.

“Sometimes it’s the crazy people that bring out the best in us”
~~ Aishabella Sheikh

wack (n.)  “crazy person,” 1938, back-formation from wacky. Adjective in slang sense of “worthless, stupid,” is attested from late 1990s.  Phrases Synonymous with wacky  *  out to lunch.

“My insane mind wants to create a world,
where craziness is treated normal.”
― Luffina Lourduraj

bonkers, zany, cracked, absurd, batty, dotty, screwy, preposterous, harebrained, quirky, bananas, cockeyed, softheaded, loopy, crazy, demented, foolish, peculiar, offbeat, etc

Funny or amusing in a slightly odd or peculiar way

Displaying a lack of sensibleness or judgment

Not having a sound state of mind

Causing laughter and providing entertainment

“I know you. Inside and out, Sara.

I know you, and I’ve accepted it all.

Every bit of the crazy.

And I love you anyway remember?” 

~~ Emme Rollins

I once had an anonymous evaluation completed on me and it went something like this.  “I don’t understand why someone “like Sami” who seems to love her job, loves to laugh and have fun, and works very hard, is not respected by any of her colleagues.”

I never set out to be weird. It was always the other people who called me weird. ~~Frank Zappa

At first I was a bit taken aback.  As anyone would be. What me?  Not respected?  I mean I sort of got it, but also wondered why my hard work was not very noticed. I tried changing my clothes, my attitude, my hair, my mind, my presentation, my everything about me that made me… well, me.

Over time, I have come to realize that no matter how much I change, I will always be essentially me.  I have long realized that this fact is something that will not please a lot of people or get me promoted.  I will never rise to the top of the pile.  I was sad for a minute.  I was frustrated for two minutes.  It took me several decades to understand this issue.

“Your importance can’t be measured by the normal things

that many others

achieved in their lives diplomas, job money… but by

the things they cannot ,

all the impossible dreams and hard getting goals which

often called the crazy thoughts can create the true meaning of

importance insanity always lead to miracles.”
~~ Marwa Zaghdoud

Now at 55, I realize how much time I wasted trying to be what I was never going to be able to be.  How much energy it took to try to change what I personally consider to be the best part of me.

“The pig was always there staring at me, as I took off my clothes, I wondered if he could be turned on by me. We live in such a crazy world, where people find themselves in the wrong body and they seek permanent change, I wonder if one day a pig woke up and realised he is in the wrong body. I think I was going crazy, I had a lot of thoughts and no one to talk to.”
~~ Lunga Noélia Izata 

Essentially, I am awkward, upbeat, zany, madcap, offbeat, outlandish, and absurd.  I have made friends, family, and strangers laugh.  Yes, I get a lot of eye rolls as well.  I drive my bosses crazy and many folks think I am just plain nuts.  I am no longer trying to deny or cover this up.  The advantage of being older and wiser, is you can melt down all that garbage and understand that us crazies are often healthier and more clear-headed than the “normal” ones.  Further, the normals are often just as crazy if not more so.  We are likely just more aware of it and able to go with the flow.

“Do you know what’s cheaper than therapy? Admitting you’re batshit crazy and running with it.”  ~~ Dan Pearce

“You look like a crazy person,” Adri said.
“You look boring and average,” Lily replied.”
~~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

“We must thank to the crazy people

because by looking

at their achievements

or the failures, we can decide whether we have to

inject some craziness

to our own lives or not!”
~~Mehmet Murat ildan

“Al final puede que la sociedad entera no sea más que una especie de congregación de lunáticos, formado por miles de chalados cada uno”
~~ Natsume Sōseki

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Gardyloo

Gardyloo  in British English  (ˈɡɑːdɪˌluː) noun. archaic. a warning cry given before throwing dirty water from a window. Those living on the top floor of tenements would dispose of their urine by emptying the container into the street out of an open window, shouting ‘Gardyloo!’

Scottish –   Tenements in Scotland’s capital during the 18th century could be as tall as 14 stories high and had no electricity, running water and or lavatories (inside or out). Toilets at that time were simply a bucket filled up during the day and it was the job – usually of the women and children – to empty them out. People living on the bottom floor of dwellings could walk outside and empty the contents onto the close, but for those ten, eleven, twelve floors up, opening the window and emptying chamber pots was a common occurrence, with a splash back reaching as far as the second floor.

An act of discarding waste or some other substance from a height.

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.”
― Bill Watterson

oh poo:  poo; sue; diehard3; uproxx; mydangblog; urspo; dan; chris; fritz; Ledfutt

Taradiddle

No Gossip! no! our Neighbour’s name
So tenderly we handle!—
A Taradiddle— Fib, or so:—
But not a word of Scandal!
Yankee doodle &c.
— Thomas Read, The British Harmonist, 1795

Taradiddle:  noun – Informal British

This word comes from the town of Taraddle, Ireland.  Actually that is not entirely true.  Or rather, that is entirely not true.  There is no such town.  Which of course makes the legend itself a taraddidle.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

So many ways to say someone is lying but pretty much one perfect way to say the opposite.

Definition – 1: a fib 2 : pretentious nonsense

• synonyms: trumpery, balderdash, skimble-skamble, nonsense, baloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, bunk, hokum, tosh, twaddle, fables, fabrications, falsehoods, falsities, fibs, lies mendacities, distortion, hoodoo, fiddle-faddle, codswallop, crapola, flapdoodle, hogwash, horsefeathers, exaggeration, ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity, defamation, libel, slander, perjury, jive, prose, pretense, myth, canard,  bluff, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence, misinformation, misstatement, story, untruth, whopper, folly foolishness, moonshine, muck, piffle, nuts, humbuggery, malarky, rot, hot air, rigmarole, double-talk, hocus-pocus, etc
• antonyms:  truth

taradiddle \tair-uh-DID-ul\ noun. 1 : a trivial or childish lie : fib. 2 : pretentious nonsense. Examples: “The time came when she not only told her taradiddle about having ‘hunted quite a lot,’ she even came near believing it.” — George Orwell, Burmese Days, 1934.

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truths through the eyes of lies: ben; jane; jahna; sadje; sandra; hartless; jeffrey; hope; fandango; troy; reluctant; Ab; pat; taggart

Nudiustertian

Nudiustertian. 

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

Michelangelo

Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is — nor what faith or art or health really is.

Walt Whitman

Oh San Francisco.. They also had a nude bike race.  Enchanting.

Wait….. a ……. minute… it doesn’t mean that?  Come on now I know you thought it meant that as well.

Nudiustertian.   Adjective. nudiustertian (not comparable) (rare, obsolete, modern uses probably humorous) Of or relating to the day before yesterday; very recent.

Have you ever wished that you had a word for the day before yesterday? This is that word! It might be a little bit more convoluted to say, but it sure is an interesting sounding word. This word is sure to confuse, and eventually astound, people. Now that you know this word, try teaching it to your friends!

I like my definition better.

mbeyer; masercot; garfield; bee; newe; fred; nick; emma; sam; reprobate; renee

Day 29 ~ Tunnels ~ Hiawatha

Washington and Idaho have some of the best hiking, biking, skiing, cross-country, etc trails you can ever visit.  This summer when I was home, my sister and I ventured out on what is now one of my favorites and one which I will do again.  The Hiawatha Trail was unknown to me until recently.  It started as a rail line that traversed through a dozen tunnels and had scenic views aver high trestles.  It was a line that crossed approximately 50 miles between Idaho and Montana.  The actual bike trail is now closed to cars so you can bike or walk it.  It’s about 15 miles, from top to bottom.

When you ride this trail, you MUST have a headlamp.  You can bring your own or rent one.  I literally thought that I would be fine without using one, but some of the tunnels are pitch black when you enter and even with the headlamp, it can be slightly disorienting because you can not see out the other end.

Even when you could see out the other side, going from the bright light to the dark tunnel could be a bit disorienting.  I know the below pictures look blurry, but that is exactly how it felt.  Cool and creepy at the same time.

“If you entered a tunnel, you can be sure that the tunnel has at least one exit!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

Despite the above quote, there were some tunnels that you were not allowed to enter.  There was one way out, but I was not convinced that that one way would be the way I would want to get out.

Like I have said in my past blog, this is simply one of the coolest hikes/rides I have been on.  It’s definitely worth checking out.  I have put several links with information at the bottom of this.  If you are ever passing through the area and have some time on your hands, you should really stop, rent a bike and zoom zoom!!

Sure, you might get a little dirty.  You might find it a bit rougher than expected.  But it was a day that we will never forget.  We needed a little light at the end of our dark, dark tunnel.

“Damn the tunnels and fuck those who wait for the light at the end of it,
Darling;
Just stop wasting your time and learn to be your own kind of light …”
― Samiha Totanji

“We took the path that led others nowhere and only we saw the light at the end of the tunnel. They warned us about the monsters we would encounter, the odds that we would meet. And they laughed when we got the scars while fighting the dragons on our way. When we came back out of the tunnel, holding the sword that they always craved for tightly in our hand. Bleeding and the sun shining on our face. We became the tales they wanted to be. We became the reflections of what they always wanted to see themselves through. We became the warriors they had always imagined of.”
― Akshay Vasu

Links to the Hiawatha Trail ~  Hiawatha; Ridethehiawatha; route of hiawatha; trails; USDA; MTB

Other trails ~ Paul; piecemeal; parry; edaly; outdoor; soybend; minnesota; monkey; atmtx; marie; kongo; queenbed; susanne; jonathan; Larry; suZan