The Social Poets: Groundhog Day Louisiana Style: New Orleans T-Boy, Baton Rouge Boudreaux

The Social Poets: Groundhog Day Louisiana Style: New Orleans T-Boy, Baton Rouge Boudreaux: From Denny: Groundhog Day contenders are popping up all over America. Groundhogs are not native to Louisiana (because it's too hot) but we didn't allow a little factoid like that to stop us. Louisiana likes it's holidays so what effort was it to rustle up another creative idea than to draft the swamp rat nutria into the Groundhog Day?

Up in the northern part of America it's considered really bad news when a groundhog sees its shadow, foretelling another miserable six weeks of winter. But here in Louisiana it means a spring that is shorter than usual.

A short spring means summer's grueling heat and drippy humidity will return sooner than desired. So, you see, burrow-loving animals can come in handy to predict the weather both in the chilly North and the hottie Deep South.

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The Social Poets: News Links: Occupy Wall Street Protests 1 - 12 Oct 2011

The Social Poets: News Links: Occupy Wall Street Protests 1 - 12 Oct 2011: From Denny: Occupy Wall Street is finally getting the attention of mainstream media. Europe, the Middle East and Asia are as fascinated with the protest movement as are Americans. Wall Street and other Big Business concerns like Fox News have tried to trivialize the anger of America's majority but to no avail.

The protests are growing exponentially as more people from all different walks of life and age groups are lifting up their voices in protest against America's "bought government" and demanding reform from our highest politicians.

Check out how the media's awareness of the movement has evolved from first "why take them seriously" to "OMG! This is the real deal!" The protest first erupted in New York City in September. At the time the organizers planned to march for three weeks. Now that the movement has morphed and evolved, developing a life of its own, organizers threw that plan out of the window, planning to march indefinitely.

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The Social Poets: Jon Stewart Interviews Egypt Revolution Activist Gigi Ibrahim

The Social Poets: Jon Stewart Interviews Egypt Revolution Activist Gigi Ibrahim: "From Denny: Stewart dishes out the political satire in a semi-serious interview aimed at exposing how for decades American policy has had little to do with the reality of every day Egyptians.

What is so funny about the experience of this young woman is how she became involved in the Egypt Revolution this past January in Tahrir Square.  She went to a class, 'The Social Mobilization Under Authoritarian Regime,' at the American University in Cairo."

Cheeky Quote Day at The Social Poets! 24 Sept 2009

From Denny: Make sure you collect your work week laughs of funny quotes over at The Social Poets! I've been wrestling with my Twitter account for several months now and it's been slowing down my daily posting on time. Along the way of building a new account I've found a lot of funny quotes on Twitter to give you some grins! For your dose of cheeky quotes, go here.

Photo by I'm Fantastic @ flickr

Funny Video: William Shatner Puts Gov. Sarah Palin's Twitter Tweets to Poetry

From Denny: And here I thought Gov. Sarah Palin was just nervous at her farewell speech. Now I'm beginning to wonder if she has brain damage after hearing her Twitter tweets repeated by actor William Shatner verbatim as if it were free verse poetry. Strange, rambling, confusing, irrational...

Obnoxious Video: News of the Absurd - Twitter, a Cat named Soc and Religion

From Denny: It's all about Twitter and the absurd in this amusing CNN segment!



CNN Humor News Of the Absurd Twitter Religion Soc Cat Twitter Followers

New Software: Find Out Who Follows Your Tweets on Twitter

Image of Twitter

Photo by PinkMoose @ flickr

From Denny: If you are a blogger and are over at Twitter, try this new fun gadget to help you learn who is following your tweets. Connect with your Peeps! :)

Just plug in your user name @ Twitter:

Twitter Analyzer

Hello to my followers in the following countries and thank you for following, much appreciated!

Here are the countries in order of most followers first - what a surprise to find out Ecuador was right up there with the UK:

America
Ecuador
Great Britain
Germany
Iran
Australia

France
Switzerland
Netherlands
Belgium
India
China

New Zealand
Thailand
Turkey
Poland
Kenya
Bolivia

Japan
Indonesia
Pakistan
Canada
Mexico
Columbia
South Africa

Added Twitter Counter to ALL Blogs

From Denny: Just added the Twitter Counter to all the blogs! Come by and drop off a link to YOUR NAME on Twitter! Great way for you to boost your followers and just plain fun. Get a little link love! :)

Have also started a reciprocal Link Love on The Social Poets and will be extending it to the other blogs too. Just email me, Denny Lyon, warriorspearl@gmail.com so I know which blog is the best fit for your site's link - unless you have a preference. Keep a link on your site or blog with a link to one of my blogs and I'll keep a link for you too.

If we don't promote each other in cyberspace, who will? :)

Here's the link to the Twitter Counter page to make your own:
http://twittercounter.com/pages/buttons/skydiver

Here are quick links to the various blogs:

The Social Poets

The Social Poets Fav Bloggers

The Social Poets Fav Links

The Healing Waters

The Soul Calendar

The Soul Calendar Fav Links

Romancing The Chocolate

Comfort Food From Louisiana

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Trivia and Oh! Genius Comments

From Denny: And now for the most unimportant Trivia you will ever read followed by Oh! Genius Comments - also completely unnecessary which is why they are termed "genius"... and are copyrighted, stupidity is brilliant and a real money-maker, agreed everyone?! ;)

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Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

* Talk about the downright bizarre. Enough said...

Image by Alireza Teimoury via Flickr

Did you know that a tiny gnat flaps its wings 1,000 times a second?

* This is revealed strictly on a "need to know" basis. File this into your short-term memory banks as there might be a flash test at the end of this post and you sure don't want to look stupid!

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Did you know that beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts and white worms like fried pork rinds?

* Don't look at me! I don't dine in the same circles as these folks, so we will just have to take their word for it. Can you imagine walking down the grocery store aisle to see fried white worms in the same area as potato chips? I wonder if white worms go well with jalapeno bean dip... do I hear a lowly murmured "Yum!" out there in the cyber darkness?

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The hum of a hummingbird comes from the super-fast beat of the wings. The smallest ones beat their wings the fastest, up to 80 times per second.

* In rush hour traffic don't you just wish you could glue a couple of these guys onto your car and "get above the fray" - arriving home at a reasonable hour? I know, I know: Dream on!

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Some armadillos spend up to 80% of their lives sleeping or dozing.

*OK, I'm really concerned about the priorities of these researchers and why MY federal tax dollars are earmarked for these studies. C'mon, you can actually get paid to watch armadillos sleep around the clock? Sign me up for that paycheck!

Ouch Category! (or maybe Odd?)

O...K... hmmmm... double meaning here!

Photo by JoshBerglund19 @ flickr