Lightning has just struck my brain!

Have you ever had one of those moments when something profound just strikes you and you spend the day thinking of nothing else? You're sitting there, minding your own business, thinking of ways to bug your wife, when all of a sudden an idea just jumps up and punches you in the brain.

Guy: Okay, just have to finish this paragraph. Then I'll fax it over to...

*POW*

Guy: Can atheists get insurance for acts of God?

Then you spend the rest of the day wishing you had a power drill to get the idea out of your brain.

Is a happy employee considered gruntled?

Why is the fear of long words called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

Do hot cakes sell particularly fast?

If a group of geese is a flock, what is a group of turtles called? (It's a "bale" by the way. Yeah that's right, I looked it up.)

All it takes is one mind boggle of a question and your entire day is lost.

I was working (on ways to bug my wife) this morning and not really thinking.

I try not to start stuff with my brain. He just does his thing and I leave him alone. We're cool like that.

Besides it really doesn't require a great deal of thought to bug your wife when she is pregnant. It's like "leave cap off toothpaste" and she's bugged. Or, tell her "Pride and Prejudice" is the worst book/movie ever made. That one works really well. Chew in her ear, change the channel a lot... See? Not too hard.

So, I didn't bring this on myself.

Then, all of a sudden, a thought occurred to me. Actually, that's putting it mildly. An idea walked up and used a tazer on my brain.

Jonny: Why is the word 'Dictionary' in the Dictionary?

And there we have it. My whole day gone.

Jonny: How would you know to look it up?
Other Guy: That's a good point.
Jonny: You wouldn't know what 'Dictionary' meant.
Other Guy: Please pull up to the second window, sir.
Jonny: You wouldn't even know what the book was.
Other Guy: Please drive away sir.


And now I'm blogging about it.

I think this is what a brain tumor feels like.

Seriously. Why would it be in there? If you're looking up the meaning in a dictionary, then you KNOW WHAT A DICTIONARY IS!

Suppose you were in a bookstore and saw a dictionary. You suddenly wonder what a dictionary is. But you can't find a book full of words and their meanings. You wouldn't think to look in the dictionary for the meaning of the word because you don't know that a dictionary is a book full of word meanings. Even if you bothered to pick the book up and try to figure it out, by the time you found the page with dictionary on it, you'd have figured out the whole darn thing. It's entirely pointless. And yet, it's in there.

Why?

WHY?!

My head hurts. I'm just going to go to bed before I ask myself another stupid question like why there aren't any synonyms for 'Thesaurus'.

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Aww dang.