For now, I wish to share the findings of my search this week to amaze, entertain, and educate you in the ways of the world you may be unaware of.
To that end I present the first Weekend Graphs for December 2012.
Please enjoy!
For all my blogger friends from across the pond...this entry is for you!
If you have never heard a Tom Waits song this will make no sense...I recommend The Piano Has Been Drinking and my favorite TW tune...Pasties and A G-String.
Who doesn't like re-enacting the scene from Marathon Man...not safe at all.
I actually wake up at 4:55 and realize I can sleep til 5...not the same amazingness.
In case you felt really good about your Christmas shopping this year...
15 comments:
Hi Chuck - very eye opening stat about feeding 190,000,000 children rather than shop on Black Friday ..
Love the differences re the English and British .. great graphics ..
oh well end of the world is nigh - so I suppose we needn't worry about the split of the Union!!
Cheers Hilary
The dentist thing is so true!! Evil, evil pick. We've come so far in technology, and yet dentists still use the metal pick.
I think we wake up at about the same time, so I know the feeling...
Hilary: Yes that stat is most sobering. I think your Union is all good.
Alex: Dentists have been a phobia of mine since I was kid and experienced a dentist of a very unsympathetic kind. Just the smell of the office and that high pitched whine raise my BP sky high!
For the record, I did NOT go Black Friday shopping. Nope, nope, nope. I was kid-free for a couple hours, though, so I did some writing. Yay!
Shannon at The Warrior Muse
These are some great graphs with fascinating data. I hate, hate, hate going to the dentist though I must say that lately it's been a kinder, gentler experience. But still terrible. And expensive.
Lee
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I wake up at 5:07am, realizing I have to get up at precisely 5:07am. I suppose I could set my alarm for 4:07 and be thrilled to get another hours, but who wants to wake up so darn early?!
I found a great dentist. They had a magazine spotlighting today's sexiest man. I think I'll schedule weekly dental cleanings.
xoRobyn
Good to see you again. I guess some people thought I bit the dust. My favorite graph is the best part of waking up.
Crazy shoppers.
I like to read Highlights magazine when i'm at the dentist.
...that voting/vs. shopping stat is mind boggling. Sad, but oh so true, I'm sure.
So, 12.21.12 ---is that the day of us all falling off the fiscal cliff?!!! ;o)
Shannon: I wouldn't temp that insanity for anything. A gang fight broke at a mall near where I live before the sun came up that day. Crazy!
Lee: Since I got my false choppers earlier this year it has been much easier to go! And the expense is crushing.
Robyn: Only you would wake up at a odd time like that. I set my alarm for 5 but my clock is set 10 minutes fast...and there is 9 minutes between snooze alerts. Which train arrives at the station first?
And only you could find something sexy at the dentist.
Manzanita: I gotta tell ya I was concerned. It made wonder about some of my other blogger friends I have not see post in a while. Glad you are doing well.
PTM: What are you, 12???
Anni: All I know is 12.21.12 will be an exciting day!!
I trust you now understand perfectly the way our great little country is made up, Chuck! ;-p
Loved the graph about waking up - it is indeed a delight to be able to turn over and settle back to sleep - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
As for the dental graph - I'd rather have 10 appointmens with the dentist rather than 1 with the hygeinist! :-o
Sue: I think I do understand the make-up of the UK better after looking at that map. I can't ever seem to kkep it straight for long. You are on the mark with the dentist comment.
Thanks, Chuck. You always make me Chuckle (no pun intended; it just worked out that way).
xoRobyn
I think I'm now terrified to ever hear a Tom Waits song after seeing this post!
Robyn: Always glad to brighten your day.
Jeff: If you never had you should at least once. It is a voice you will never forget.
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