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Things I've seen, or heard, or would like to see, or don't understand, or understand but don't know why.

• Hand-carved wood...yes. Hand-woven tapestries...yes. Hand-cut flowers...yes. Hand-blown glass? No such thing. It's mouth-blown or lung-blown. It can be called hand-made to differentiate it from machine-made. But hands can't blow, therefore there is no such thing as hand-blown glass.

• Personalized plate...

• Everyone will know when I start suffering from short-term memory loss when I

• A Kentucky teenager was arrested for entering a bingo hall and disrupting the game by yelling the word "bingo." According to official reports, he was instantly grabbed by an officer and placed in handcuffs. My guess was so he couldn't Clap, Clap, Clap-Clap-Clap.

• Those are spinners on those rims. Can you identify the vehicle they're on? (Answer below)

• I saw a promo for the T.V. series Survivor. Not that I care about the show. I really wasn't paying attention until I heard the contestant doing the promo say something to the effect of "I may be old, but I want to show the others I still have game." No, you don't. In the context of trash talking, the word "have" is grammatically unacceptable when referring to what you "got." You can't have game. You can have a game. You can bring your "A" game. You can make a game out of something. You can win, lose or throw a game. You can be game. There are a lot of things you can do with a game, except have one. (Okay, you can have the next game, just not the one you're in.) It's got game, as in "I may be old, but I still got game." And if you find it absolutely necessary to flash your education, "I've still got game" will be allowed.

• I find it oddly amusing that questions about homosexuality qualify as "queries."

• Considering the number of idiots already on the roads, seeing this doesn't bother me. At least the bitch can park in the space.
  

• Ever sit in a booth in a restaurant and have the bench you're sitting on raise up when someone sits in the booth directly behind you, and then you spend the rest of your meal eating like you're riding on a see-saw?

• There may not be an "i" in "team", but there is a "you" in "why we didn't succeed." 

• What you see below is wrong on so many levels, and yet it really only needs just one level.

• You want to know what's trending for me? My dislike of the terms "trending," "trend" and "trendy." I dislike reading trending articles that include trended words with annoyingly trendy hashtags in front of them. I don't like the distraction of watching television and having newscasters or sportscasters inviting me to "tweet" them at one of their long lists of #'s. To me, a "#" indicates only one thing: there's a message following with poor grammar and bad spelling in it. When I see "#" I don't think "hashtag," I think "pound." Then I think #this.

 
• I'm curious to know why when I see a gasoline truck unloading at a gas station, the price for all of the grades of gas change at the same time. There are never more tanks with the truck than there are tanks in the ground, yet all of the prices change.

• Answer: Nissan Quest Minivan