She's Just My Style-Gary Lewis & The Playboys

EDIT: Had to put in another vid as the original one I posted was taken down by YouTube.

If THIS one goes down, I'm sorry.

(sorry that the publishing companies are so anal retentive)

grandiloquent

grandiloquent \gran-DIL-uh-kwuhnt\, adjective:
Lofty in style; pompous; bombastic.

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There's nothing bombastic about this blog, nor could it be described as pompous because there's nothing lofty about its style.

It has no style at all.

This is why....

We in the Panhandle have a nasal twang...it's all the dust in the air.

Dust Storm Warning in Texas Panhandle

This is the radar return; the amount of precipitation is signified by progressive shades of green/yellow/orange/red/yellow, etc., but the dust shows up as earth tones.

How apt.



Here's the wind velocity; the green is wind going towards the radar (Amarillo) and the red is the wind going away.



The different shades of color signifies the kts or knots per hour. (1 knot = 1.15 mph) The shade of red where Pampa is equates to around 50 knots, or right around 58 mph.

Amarillo radar (composite view/loop)

flummox

flummox \FLUM-uhks\, transitive verb:
To confuse; to perplex.

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Flummox is also a noun, the name of my world, the new one in which I wake up every morning.

Two So True

You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
~ Gerald Barzan

Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
~ Frank Dane

Behind the Name

From the website:

Names. Everyone has one, most people have a vague idea what their own means, but few give them much more thought. The study of names is called onomastics, a field which touches on linguistics, history, anthropology, pyschology, sociology, philology and much more.

When people refer to the "meaning of a name", they are most likely referring to the etymology, which is the original literal meaning. This website looks at the etymology and history or all types of given names.

Michael

From the Hebrew name מִיכָאֵל (Mikha'el) meaning "who is like God?". This is a rhetorical question, implying no person is like God. Saint Michael was one of the seven archangels in Hebrew tradition and the only one identified as an archangel in the Bible. In the Book of Revelation in the New Testament he is portrayed as the leader of heaven's armies, and thus is considered the patron saint of soldiers.

The popularity of the saint led to the name being used by nine Byzantine emperors, including Michael VIII Palaeologus who restored the empire in the 13th century. It has been common in Western Europe since the Middle Ages, and in England since the 12th century. It has been borne (in various spellings) by rulers of Russia (spelled Михаил), Romania (Mihai), Poland (Michał), and Portugal (Miguel). Other more modern bearers of this name include the British chemist/physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and basketball player Michael Jordan (1963-)