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Mar 8, 2011
Official Puttle Golf Ball Markers by Puttle on @Etsy
The very same as use by The Big Guy!!
Sep 28, 2010
Ever wonder how China can endlessly generate goal-seeked GDP of precisely 8.00001% year after year? Or how it can constantly find use for the massive and ever-larger surplus of warehoused commodities? Simple - never stop building. Which, apparently means blowing up empty building before they are even finished and rebuilding them. Rinse. Repeat.
this is absolutely amazing!
Sep 28, 2010
Ryder Cup putter contest
Win a USA Flag Series Putter @golfcircuit & @mygolfspy #GolfCircuit http://dld.bz/nct4
Sep 28, 2010
Will you be posting live scores? @rydercup
Thanks, Mr Puttle
Sep 24, 2010
Enter the NPD Punctuation Haiku Contest and win great punctuation chotchkes
PINOLE, CA — Last year we had a baking contest—and what a delicious exercise that was!
This year we’re trying something a bit more literary—our first National Punctuation Day® Haiku Contest, with the winners receiving a plethora of punctuation goodies.
Send your best 5-7-5 (syllables, that is) poetry to me at Jeff@NationalPunctuationDay.com, and let the literary games begin! Haikus must be received by September 30 to be considered for prizes. To get you started, here are a few haikus written by my friend Craig Harrison, one of the best sales and customer-service trainers—and prolific writers—I know. Which colon to use?
Colon or semi-colon?
I’ll use a comma.
Exclamation points.
Some people just love to shout
In print and in speech.
Serial comma.
What is your philosophy?
To use or not to?
Raised by two parens
I’ve been bracketed since youth.
I’m an inside job.
Dot dot ellipses
The yada yada of print.
So on and so forth.
Punctuate or die.
What is a writer to do?
Good writers will know.
Colon-oscopy:
When my editor removes
My inflamed colon.
Exclamation points
And question marks together?
Only in comics.
The apostrophe:
Found on both sides of letters.
The right side and wrong.
Are you Brit or Yank?
Show me your quotation marks
And I’ll tell you which.
i’m ee cummings
i break punctuation rules.
that’s what poets do.
Em dash or en dash.
On typewriters it’s easy,
On keyboards, less so.
While I like to write,
Punctuation is a drag.
That’s for editors.
How to punctuate?
Try Punctuation Playtime
For kids AND adults!
Sep 24, 2010
Yesterday's SBDC + LVEDC event at Lehigh was excellent. Kudos to all.
If you have a business that could benefit by international sales, then you don’t want to miss the next gathering. All of the international trade representatives are great and their collective brain power is bit overwhelming, but on target.
Sep 8, 2010
You aren't responsible for Quran burners. Don't hold Muslims responsible for 9/11.
Two days ago, hundreds of Afghans gathered in Kabul to denounce the United States for burning the Quran. They torched American flags, chanted “Death to America,” and carried signs calling for the death of President Obama. Some of them hurled rocks at U.S. troops. A student in the crowd said of the planned Quran burning: “We know this is not just the decision of a church. It is the decision of the president and the entire United States.”
He’s wrong, of course. The Quran burning is the brainchild of a Florida minister and his tiny fundamentalist church. It has been condemned by the White House, the State Department, the commanding U.S. general in Afghanistan, Christian organizations, and countless Americans. But when clerics in Egypt denounce the incendiary plan, we feel the heat. When thousands of Muslims rally against it in Indonesia, they do so outside our embassy. When an imam in Kabul threatens retaliation, he casts a shadow on all of us: “If they decide to burn the holy Quran, I will announce jihad against these Christians and infidels.” This is how it feels to be judged by the sins of others who destroy in the name of your faith. You’re no more responsible for 30 Christian extremists in Florida than Muslims are for the 9/11 hijackers. Yet most of us, when polled, say that no Muslim house of worship should be built near the site of the 9/11 attacks. In saying this, we implicitly hold all Muslims accountable for the crime of the 9/11 hijackers.
Now you know how it feels to be judged that way. It’s inaccurate, and it’s wrong. But of course [we know] the two situations are different.
A pastor who preaches at a nearby Florida church is aghast at the global outrage the Quran-burning minister has provoked. “He represents only 30 people in this town,” the pastor tells the New York Times. “It needs to get out somehow to the rest of the world that this isn’t the face of Christianity.”
It will, Reverend. Right after it gets out to the rest of the world that we don’t think the 9/11 hijackers are the face of Islam.
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