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True Confessions of a Ricochetti
On another thread, one of our members admitted something:
I always confuse Horace Greeley with William Jennings Bryan.
I’ve seen a few other comments like this over the years I have been here. When Ricochetti go wild and make their true confessions, it usually isn’t the sort of thing you would see on Facebook or Jeff Bezos’ diary. How many people on your Facebook feed even know who Horace Greeley and William Jennings Bryant are? This is a high-class joint with high-class true confessions.
My true confession: the older I get, the more trouble I have with homonyms. I tend to write out loud. I once found an error in one of my books where I had used the word “clamber” instead of “clamor,” for instance.
What’s your most Ricochet-style true confession?
Published in Humor
After he pinned you.
Don’t mess with either.
Definitely a Rico-confession.
I’ve never read the constitution front to back.
You mean it changed the weather?
I take it you’re confessing to being pedantic. Hardly unusual around here.
I could have gone to Boss’s university.
I got carried away.
Time to rectify that. It’s not that long.
So could’ve my brother except for a football injury.
I found out I was accepted by getting a letter at Thanksgiving my freshman year asking me why I hadn’t accepted the appointment.
Gotcha.
I once had a couple or six too many beers and wound up in an impromptu hockey match in the basement of Bryan’s brother’s house.
I have the same thing when it comes to comments in code. It’s like they’re not even there.
That is not a confession but a brag.
That’s not a bug; that’s a feature.
I spent today at work trying to figure out what I was doing when I wrote a code procedure that I don’t think I ever used to upgrade it. In a library that only I ever use, where there is a clearly superior option already present.
I’ve had less productive days.
That I’m ok with the homonyms – it’s a lifestyle choice as far as I can tell.
We’d have much less fun if it weren’t for typos.
I only work half-days on Fridays, but I spent that half-day coloring.
But I thought a confession was when you did something wrong?
Especially the music in the “Beacons of Minas Tirith” scene.
Peter Jackson moved some things around in the movies, but they were a faithful recreation of much of the spirit of the story. They are a master piece of a different kind, and I’ve seen the director’s cut versions, which is an all day affair, multiple times. He destroyed The Hobbit for greed. He did something beautiful with LOTR. The soundtrack is haunting. Enya sounds downright… elvish.
So true about Tolkien. I associated him with hippies in college (of course, back then I didn’t think that was a bad thing). Imagine my surprise when I learned he was a devout Christian.
Speaking of being pedantic, shouldn’t the title of this post be True Confessions of a Ricochetto?
He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
But the above is my favorite.
Oops, wrong post. I confess that I have difficulty Ricocheting on a phone. I prefer a real computer.
I f that’s true, the books must be horrible, because the movies bored me to sleep.
In college I once hit into an unassisted triple play. It was a softball league, slow pitch softball. In a coed league, to a second base”man” who might have weighed 90 lbs, and ducked behind the pitcher when most men came up to bat.