Occupations I'd Like To Have For 24 Hours

  • Wrecking Ball Operator

  • Cotton Candy / Stratocumulus Cloud

  • Sequoia Tree

  • Hobo

  • Big Time Philanthropist

  • Mosquito

  • Yahweh

  • Cross Country Big Rig Driver

  • Keystone Cop

  • Not-Allergic-To-Poison-Ivy Person

  • Megaballs Lottery Winner

  • Time Machine Operator

  • Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Wintering In The Yucatan

  • Carnie Barker

  • Dutchess

Comments

Sid Leavitt said…
Yeah, I'd vote for you for Yahweh. The world would be a helluva lot more fun than it is now.

Say, on your previous post about the top 10 numbers, whatever happened to zero? Without it, you know, we wouldn't have nothing.
March 01, 2008
P.L. Frederick said…
Zero is indeed a magic number. An a magic non number. Hmmm, I've got some considering to do.
March 01, 2008
Maureen said…
What the heck is a Yahweh? Do I have to go to Wiki yet again??? Crap.

If you were a Mosquito for 24 hours, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? Isn't that their entire life span? Gad I hope so.
March 01, 2008
P.L. Frederick said…
Ah, but after my 24-hour mosquito shift ends I'll be back as me. With a lingering taste for blood.

Yahweh = YHWY = one of the names for God. It's from the First Testament (or Old Testament). Since it was initially written down as a most sacred name, it was only written with consonants: YHWY. It's the old "I'm not worthy of writing or speaking God's name!" syndrome. Nobody knows the actual vowels in it so we humans collectively decided that it was an A and an E. Nobody knows why I know this.
March 02, 2008
Maureen said…
Ahhhhhh..... merci.
March 02, 2008
P.L. Frederick said…
Technically, I should have typed YHWH. Mistakes like that won't happen when I'm Yahweh for a day.
March 03, 2008
Rick Rockhill said…
Oh I like the wrecking ball operator and the duchess. oops I mean duke
March 08, 2008
Anonymous said…
Reminds me of that old song: "If I Ruled the World" ...

Anyway, I wanna be Johnny Depp's personal reader ... but not for just a day.
May 09, 2008
P.L. Frederick said…
Ooh, ooh...! And the next week, be his director. Order him around, Jenny. Order. Him. Around.
May 10, 2008
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