Yes, Yellow Things shall be the topic of the day. Or, the Topic du Jour if you want to get fancy with it. Or, the Topic de Jour if you’re cluelessly trying to look fancy.

Anyway, why Yellow Things?

It’s the 11th most popular search term for the month so far, possibly due to my “Mellow Yellow Things” post from two years ago.

Go ahead and check out that link. I’ll wait…

What? You didn’t click it? Click it! I’m waiting here! I know you didn’t click it yet. You thought you’d keep reading and then maybe–just maybe–you’d check it out. Meanwhile, I’m waiting here for you to go check it out!

Okay, good. Thanks for clicking that. Cool, eh? Those flowers look plastic, I know, but they were absolutely real.

Anyway, so, yellow things. Yep, lots of yellow things are cool, except yellow snow, especially the dark yellow snow. Ew. Anyway, let’s review some things that are yellow:

• #2 pencils (remember them?)
• bananas
• bumblebees
• daffodils
• dandelions
• lemonade
• lemons
• roses (yellow roses, duh)
• smiley faces
• those stripes on the road that you can or cannot cross, depending on whether they are solid or dotted

I’ve probably missed a bunch. Please list your favorite yellow things in the comments below. That way, when people come across this post when searching for yellow things, they won’t be completely disappointed.

This one takes the cake. On one of my blogs, I just received a comment which went something like this:

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Why? Well, if you’re selling a product or service, especially one that targets bloggers, or if you want to increase the number of backlinks to your website to improve its Google rankings and, thus, bring your website more visitors and sales, which means more money in your pocket! To learn more, take a look at this website…

Yeah. So, I hate spam comments. I’m sure many bloggers hate spam comments. So, we are not likely buyers of spam commenting services.

With spot-on targeting like that, I’m sure I want to use them to promote my own sites. LOL. Delete…

It’s Saturday Flashback time, when we take a look at past lame Saturday posts!

Nonsense Rhyming Saturday

Saturday in Motion through the Snow

Saturday Lameness Post Haste

Saturday Lameness

No Success Saturday Today; Instead, Much Ado About Nothing

Success September: Nothing on a Saturday

Success September: Saturday Edition

If You Would Like to Succeed in Internet Marketing, Skip to One of my Other Posts Because, While This Should Be Another “Success Saturday” Post It Is, In Fact, Not, Which Means That You Will Not Be Learning Anything About Internet Marketing in This Post At All, Which Is Why You May Wish to Consider Buying My eBook Which Will Teach You the Fundamentals of Internet Marketing But, Instead, You Are Still Reading the Title of This Post, Which Makes Me Curious Because I Already Told You That You Would Not Be Learning Anything About Internet Marketing in This Blog Post, Which, In Turn, Suggests to Me That You Do Not Believe What I Tell You, In Which Case, You Probably Do Not Believe Me When I Say You Will Learn All Those Important Fundamentals in My eBook, So You Should Really Buy that Instead of Reading This, Yet You Continue to Read This, Which Aggravates Me to No End, But, I Think, That If You Enjoy This Title So Much as to Continue Reading Thus Far, You Should Definitely Buy My eBook Because You Will Completely Love All Over 120,000 Words or Thereabouts of It, Because It’s Got Some Good Stuff in There and You Will Learn from Reading It, Which is in Sad Comparison to Reading This Blog Title, Wherein You Are Not Learning Anything at All, Which is Almost the Norm for My Blog Posts Except on Those Occasions Where I Do Throw You a Bone and You Get Some Meaty Information and, While Those Instances are Few and Far Between, I Know that You Continue to Hang Out Here Because You Simply Do Not Want to Miss Them, Which is Why I Appreciate Your Loyalty as a Reader and Continue to Try to Amuse You with Useful and Sometimes Silly Posts, and to Keep You on Your Toes Wondering What I Might Possibly Do Next, and Now That I Am Coming Up on Over 1,750 Characters in This Title and Closing in on 2,000 Characters, I Feel Compelled to Keep Going Just to Test the Limits of WordPress and, I Must Say, Testing the Limits of Things is a Good Exercise for Internet Marketing and You Should Really Consider Buying My eBook If You Think You Might Be Into that Sort of Thing and, Oh Look at That!, I Have Already Surpassed 2,000 Characters, Yet I Continue to Ramble About Stuff Other Than Internet Marketing Except for the Encouragement to Purchase My Awesome eBook on the Topic of the Very Fundamentals of Internet Marketing Which You Will Need to Know, However, I am Going to Stop This Title Upon Hitting 2,500 Characters Which is Real Soon But Not Now, Not Now, But Rather Still Not Now But Now NOW!

Saturday But Not a Summer’s Day

So It’s Saturday

Snow Saturday

Saturday Stop-Motion Non-Animation

This website is a blog. A blog is a type of website.

What you’re reading right now is a blog post on a blog, like reading an article on a magazine website.

So, when you say you created a blog, that means you set up a new website that is a blog.

When you put up a new post on your blog, you wrote a new blog post.

What you did not do is write a new blog.

Now, if you just created a blog and wrote the first blog post for it, then maybe you can say that you wrote a blog.

But, if you’re writing a blog post on an established blog, what you’re doing is writing a blog post, not a blog.

Okay?

It just drives me batty when people say they “wrote a blog” when what they really meant was that they “wrote a blog post.” Or, they could say that they wrote a new post on their blog.

But, they didn’t just write a blog.

Probably not.

But, did you know, that, in the 1960’s, if you wore green on Thursdays, you were considered gay?

At least among the high school crowd.

So was the common wisdom of the time, if Wikipedia is to be believed.

What happened if St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Thursday, as it does today? Was there an exception for that, or was everyone considered to be gay?

And, why would that be? Did they think Thor was gay? I’ve never heard of that. Or, did Thor not like green, thus, if you wore green, you were disappointing Thor and, thus, must not be a manly man or something. Who knows what they thought in the 60’s?

Or maybe Thor loved green so if you wore green on his day, you were trying to appeal to him and, thus, maybe you were gay.

Or, maybe it had nothing to do with Thor. Who knows? I guess I would have to get the book referenced as the source in the Wikipedia entry in order to find out.

What is the Cybernetic Transposition Lottery?

Well, that was a keyword phrase someone used to find my blog this month.

Apparently because I have a post that mentions cybernetic transposition.

So, what is cybernetic transposition and the cybernetic transposition lottery?

Well, there is no cybernetic transposition lottery. I think that the search was meant to be something like how to win the lottery using cybernetic transposition and not a formal name of a particular lottery or type of lottery.

I don’t think there is an actual Cybernetic Transposition Lottery, though maybe it would be cool if there was.

At any rate, what is it?

Well, it is the art of wishful thinking. It is the concept that if you want something badly enough, that you visualize achieving it, you can do it.

Maybe that works for achieving a particular goal. For example, if you want to play the piano like a master, it may help to imagine yourself already achieving that goal. That may put you in a frame of mind for mastering the piano. Of course, you’ll need to take lessons and practice and all that, but if you go into it with a positive mindset, you might perhaps learn faster or play better than if you visualize yourself as a piano playing failure.

But, I doubt very much that cybernetic transposition is going to help you win the lottery.

You may encounter someone that won the lottery just when they needed it most or just when they had a good feeling about it or just when they began visualizing winning it.

But, you’ll likely encounter many more who were in the same situations and did not win the lottery.

Winning the lottery is a game of chance. Do you think your mind can manipulate the universe in such a way that those numbers end up being your numbers? And, if that’s true, do you think you’re the only one trying to mentally manipulate those numbers?

I’ve visualized winning the lottery since I was old enough to buy tickets. I used positive thinking long before I had ever heard of anything like the Law of Attraction or cybernetic transposition and all that jazz. I could see myself in my future home. I could see all the stuff I wanted to buy and things I wanted to do with the money. It was as good as in my hand. There were times I just knew I had the winning numbers.

But, nope, never won.

Of course, those that are wrapped up in the whole Law of Attraction thing will suggest I didn’t want it badly enough, or didn’t think positively enough, or whatever. Yeah, right.

Beware the ides of March.

Try a burger under the arch.

Never cut down a larch.

All your fine clothes you starch.

Be careful reading that old parch.

Sometimes cook with cornstarch.

Will the others your band outmarch?

And that’s all that rhymes with March.

A horse is a horse unless it uses the Force.

Then a Jedi it be, though its voice will be hoarse.

If it speaks at all, that is, of course, of course.

Though with its shoes it can tap things in Morse.

And it will prefer not to be ridden by the Norse.

Why? That wasn’t told me by my source.

It was never a part of our discourse.

Does the Jedi horse feel any remorse,

Over leaving his wife in the divorce?

Because a Jedi must be single,

And may not ever mingle,

For when that happens, Vader may jingle.

You wouldn’t want him to show at your Jedi concourse.

So leave the horse alone I would endorse.

There is no other recourse.

When you’ve got your hand on the steering,

You ain’t got no time for no fearing,

For the nervousness would be searing,

Which would make your eyes all tearing,

And you might drive off into a clearing.

At the sight, all the people would be leering.

Some may even be cheering

At the sight of you at the edge of the peering.

And the hunters who had been out there deering

Will be mad you’ve scared them off with your off-gearing.

That’s why it’s important this week when you’re green beering,

That you don’t go out there drinking and steering.

Tonight you’re gonna lose an hour of time,

Better drink a Coke with some lime,

Or eat a pickle with thyme.

Be careful not to spend your last dime.

You want to stay in your financial prime.

To do otherwise could be a crime.

Pay attention to the sublime,

Or you could turn into a mime,

Waving your white gloved hands in grime,

Cleaning the floor for some guy named Clime.

Up the ladder you’ll climb,

To avoid slipping in slime.

It could happen to you, working part-time.

So be sure to listen for the chime,

And make sure you set the right time.