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Single out the unique in the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: One.
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Share your entry in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Community.
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Be illuminated by the entries in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light!
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We had for years been amused by this design duo’s eclectic creations – imagine our delight at coming across one in our local museum – the temptation to recycle all our own warehoused teddies is great…
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Be surprised by the entries in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected.
Pile it on in the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers.
Scare yourself with the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie.
Look into the distance with the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon.
Get an idea of how others see themselves in the entries of
the Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You.
Go everywhere and anywhere in the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite.
Get off to a good start with the entries in
the Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning!
Experience the most intense entries in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated.
See every manner of configuration in the entries of
the Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns.
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Put yourself in someone else’s shoes in the Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV
Let us wander along the sea today and skip stones,♒
Walk the shores of the world in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea…
it all depends on where you shopAcross the Bored and fellow blogger Bennetta Faire always get to bantering about life, laughs and literary pursuits whenever the occasion arises. Despite growing up on opposite sides of the continent, we manage to share common bits of life experience from vintage recipes and favourite print ads to those odd pop culture references pre-internet and yes, even pre-colour television.
Our conversation are sprinkled with silly sayings, all-encompassing adages and candid colloquialisms spouted by ancestors and peers alike. Some of them are humorous, some cheerful and sweet, some down-right awful for each one carries with it a vivid memory of occasion and the personalities that favoured them.
One in particular that still raises hackles is “What does that have to do with the price of eggs?”. Perhaps if it had been used as a philosophical preface to ponder the deeper meanings of life it would not have rankled as much but it was usually used when an argument had been lost and there was no foreseeably valid point to be made in order to win said discussion. Drove. us. Nuts… and still does.
Are there any phrases that are particular to you, your friends and family or culture that you just love and use on a regular basis? Care to share those you despise and would have disappear into the fog of never-to-be-heard agains? Drop those idiosyncratic idioms into the comment box – you might pick up a few beauties to be used at your next dinner party…
Not one to let things get too predictable, we finally got around to installing the “Random Post Generator” in the sidebar yesterday. Give it a click to see what it pulls out of Across the Bored’s archives – it just might be what you didn’t know you were looking for!
Thanks go out to Rarasaur for her post reminding us just how much fun this nifty widget can be.
The span of a year is 365 unique days – 8760 sometimes long hours – 525,600 quickly ticking minutes and a million thoughts and ideas – in it Across the Bored has presumed and postulated, been challenged, asked to think and launched a particular view out into the megaverse to be caught up readers, friends and visitors near and far. It has been an interesting experiment, one whose results are quite different than those anticipated at the outset – one that has strayed far from the confines of its original inception, outgrown its first hesitant forays to engage happily in a full-blown dialogue between not only blog and viewer but interestingly, form and content.
To take a line from James Brown:
I feel good, I knew that I would, now
So good, so good, I got you
Happy First Blogiversary!
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