May 16th, 2009

My First Ride

<a href="http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-states/nc/carrboro/282132740">dairyland -> white cross (variation)</a><br/><a href="http://www.mapmyride.com/find-ride/united-states/nc/carrboro">Find more Bike Rides in Carrboro, North Carolina</a> <p>This was a great first ride. Dairyland road is especially beautiful, with rolling pastures dotted by dairy cows. It also features Maple View Creamery, which is a great place to stop for a cone. </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/05/my-first-ride/" title="Permalink: My First Ride">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/05/my-first-ride/#respond" title="Comment on My First Ride">No Comments</a></p> </div> <p class="postdate">April 13th, 2009</p> <div class="post" id="post-178"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/04/this-is-too-awesome-and-bizarre-not-to-share/" rel="bookmark" title="Link to This is too awesome and bizarre not to share…">This is too awesome and bizarre not to share…</a></h2> <p class="authormeta">by admin in <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></p> <div class="postcontent"> <p><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image.png"><img title="image" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="446" alt="image" src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image-thumb.png" width="409" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>Too bad there are no pictures. This picture is NOT Juliot-Curie or her husband: </p> <p><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image1.png"><img title="image" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="261" alt="image" src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image-thumb1.png" width="167" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>But this might be what jujitsu practitioners might have worn around that time… </p> <p>Interesting fact: </p> <p>Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education, earned a PhD in engineering at the Sorbonne, where Marie Curie was one of his teachers. He was also an assistant in Frederic Joliot’s laboratory. Frederic and Marie Joliot-Curie trained in judo under Feldenkrais.</p> </div> <p class="postmeta"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/04/this-is-too-awesome-and-bizarre-not-to-share/" title="Permalink: This is too awesome and bizarre not to share…">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/04/this-is-too-awesome-and-bizarre-not-to-share/#respond" title="Comment on This is too awesome and bizarre not to share…">No Comments</a></p> </div> <p class="postdate">April 6th, 2009</p> <div class="post" id="post-173"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/04/sprung/" rel="bookmark" title="Link to Sprung">Sprung</a></h2> <p class="authormeta">by admin in <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></p> <div class="postcontent"> <p><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/img-0169.jpg"><img title="IMG_0169" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="444" alt="IMG_0169" src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/img-0169-thumb.jpg" width="334" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>View from my back porch. </p> <p><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dsc-0090.jpg"><img title="DSC_0090" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="250" alt="DSC_0090" src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dsc-0090-thumb.jpg" width="373" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>About 6000 feet up, on Grandfather Mountain, spring has not yet sprung. But the icicles were tasty. </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/04/sprung/" title="Permalink: Sprung">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/04/sprung/#respond" title="Comment on Sprung">No Comments</a></p> </div> <p class="postdate">March 27th, 2009</p> <div class="post" id="post-168"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/03/packages-i-hate/" rel="bookmark" title="Link to Packages I Hate">Packages I Hate</a></h2> <p class="authormeta">by admin in <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></p> <div class="postcontent"> <p>I have no hand/finger disabilities. I am under 70. Yet, I continually struggle with the packages listed below. Is it just me? Or are these things designed by people with freakishly strong, agile, and nimble hands? Or, maybe they are designed by Edward Scissor-hands? </p> <p>Here are the worst offenders, in no particular order. </p> <p>1) Containers with plastic seals on the outside. </p> <p>These include salad containers and their ilk: </p> <p><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image.png"><img title="image" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="244" alt="image" src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image-thumb.png" width="223" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>The containers themselves are fine. What bothers me is the plastic seal that they usually have around the edges of the lid. Nearly impossible to break without a knife, pair of scissors, or other such implement. </p> <p>Contact solution and others of this variety: </p> <p><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image1.png"><img title="image" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="244" alt="image" src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image-thumb1.png" width="231" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>See above. Nearly impossible to rip of without scissors; nearly impossible to remove <em>with</em> scissors/knife unless they are tiny. Annoying as hell when you already have your contacts removed, in their case, waiting for their saline bath. </p> <p>2) Containers with inner seals: </p> <p>Sabra hummus comes with a plastic seal inside the container, but the attached tab to pull it off isn’t strong enough. So you break the tab, and then are forced to dig in with a knife. </p> <p><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image2.png"><img title="image" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="168" alt="image" src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image-thumb2.png" width="244" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>Of a similar genre, </p> <p><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image3.png"><img title="image" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="211" alt="image" src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image-thumb3.png" width="244" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>Yogurt containers and similar plastic containers with a tinfoil seal. Often very sticky. The tab often rips off. </p> <p>3) Of course, childproof containers that are also adultproof: </p> <p>Variations include: </p> <p><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image4.png"><img title="image" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="244" alt="image" src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image-thumb4.png" width="244" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>Mouthwash. You have to squeeze the lid together, then twist. </p> <p><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image5.png"><img title="image" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="244" alt="image" src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image-thumb5.png" width="244" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>Pill containers. Also annoying.The lining up part, I get, the snapping off part can be hard. </p> <p>4) Sticky cardboard packages. I think they use crazy glue. </p> <p><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image6.png"><img title="image" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="244" alt="image" src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image-thumb6.png" width="244" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>Easy to use, not easy to open. Trust me. </p> <p>And finally, the piece de resistance, </p> <p>5) Plastic packages from hell</p> <p><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image7.png"><img title="image" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="184" alt="image" src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image-thumb7.png" width="244" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>And this variation, the sticky-as-hell cardboard container:</p> </div> <p class="postmeta"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/03/packages-i-hate/" title="Permalink: Packages I Hate">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/03/packages-i-hate/#comments" title="Comment on Packages I Hate">2 Comments</a></p> </div> <p class="postdate">March 5th, 2009</p> <div class="post" id="post-151"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/03/favorite-index-entries/" rel="bookmark" title="Link to Favorite Index Entries">Favorite Index Entries</a></h2> <p class="authormeta">by admin in <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></p> <div class="postcontent"> <p>From my forthcoming book:</p> <p><strong>Most random entries:</strong> </p> <p>draftees, malnourished, 103</p> <p>menstruation, and social functioning, 32–33</p> <p><strong>Best Names:</strong> </p> <p>Munk, Ardis, 82 </p> <p>Patrinos, Aristedes, 134</p> <p><strong>Longest entries:</strong> </p> <p>Manhattan Project: calculation methods in, 82; competition in, 72; efficiency in, 79; ethical concerns in, 72, 73, 78; gendered culture of, 74–78; genres of, 130, 134; government funding for, 95; hierarchical culture of, 89, 134; influence on scientific research, 72; institutional values of, 11–12, 84, 88; intensive ethos of, 72, 73; male culture of, 131; Marshall’s role in, 73, 75–76, 78–87, 130; organizational culture of, 73, 76, 94; participating institutions, 74–75, 140n2; petition from scientists of, 95; plutonium production in, 74, 78–79, 80–81, 83–84, 96; productivity of, 72, 82; as research metaphor, 72; risk assessment in, 78–97; Roosevelt and, 76, 77; safety hazards in, 72, 73, 78–94, 96–97; secrecy in, 76, 77–78; staff of, 71; technical rationality in, 73, 80, 81, 82, 86–87, 89, 94, 95, 96; technical reports of, 8, 73, 95, 98, 130; urgency in, 11, 71, 75–80, 87, 95, 96, 98; view of nature, 131; Way’s role in, 73, 76, 87–94, 130; women physicists of, 2, 8, 9, 11–12, 73–98</p> <p>Roberts, Lydia J., 12, 131; academic career of, 101, 102; chairmanship of Committee on Dietary Allowances, 104, 105; democratic approach of, 100, 104, 106–9, 110–11, 122, 124; family support for, 132; feminine style of, 106; NAS service of, 100; NRC membership of, 102; promotion of RDAs, 109–11; publications of, 101–2; publicizing of RDAs, 111–12; rhetorical resources of, 100, 104, 111, 113, 125; role in RDAs, 99–100, 102, 104–14, 131–32, 143n9; scientific persona of, 106, 107–8; use of discourse of expertise, 100, 104. Works: “Improvement of the Nutritional Status of American People,” 113; <i>Nutrition Work with Children</i>, 102; “Scientific Basis for the Recommended Dietary Allowances,” 109, 110; “Usefulness and Validity of the Recommended Dietary Allowances,” 109, 110, 111</p> <p>Tsuchiyama, Tamie, 11, 45–55, 131; allegiance to U. S., 54–55, 68; background of, 45–46; career of, 69; confiscation of notes from, 55; correspondence with Thomas, 40, 44, 45, 55, 66, 68, 69; departure from JERS study, 68, 69; diary of, 55; dissatisfaction with JERS study, 47; field notes of, <i>52</i>; field reports of, 46–54; Gila visit of, 63; inexperience with fieldwork, 55; informants of, 48, 49, 51; and Nishimoto, 46, 50, 68, 132; at Poston camp, 45, 46, 47, 51, 53–54; racialized identity of, 51; relationship with Thomas, 68, 69; research conditions for, 44; and rhetoric of objectivity, 42; on segregationists, 68; subjectivity of, 41, 55, 66, 68, 70; use of temporal distance, 47–51, 53, 55, 59, 63. Reports: <i>The Beating of S____ K____</i>, 48; <i>Chronological Account of the Poston Strike</i>, 48–49, 50–51; <i>History of the Central Executive Committee</i>, 51; <i>Notes on Selective Service Registration</i>, 49–50, 54</p> </div> <p class="postmeta"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/03/favorite-index-entries/" title="Permalink: Favorite Index Entries">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/03/favorite-index-entries/#respond" title="Comment on Favorite Index Entries">No Comments</a></p> </div> <p class="postdate">February 26th, 2009</p> <div class="post" id="post-150"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/02/those-years-of-being-totally-uncool-have-paid-off/" rel="bookmark" title="Link to Those years of being totally uncool have paid off">Those years of being totally uncool have paid off</a></h2> <p class="authormeta">by admin in <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></p> <div class="postcontent"> <p>i.e., not going to parties, concerts, clubs, etc and instead staying home and coloring pictures of hockey players. </p> <p> <a href="http://trainhorns.net/sound/"><img alt="Train Horn" src="http://trainhorns.net/sound/img/passed.png" /></a> <p>Created by <a href="http://trainhorns.net">Train Horn</a></p> <p>Also, it is a good thing that I have the hearing of a 25-year-old because I have the sight of a 72-year-old. </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/02/those-years-of-being-totally-uncool-have-paid-off/" title="Permalink: Those years of being totally uncool have paid off">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2009/02/those-years-of-being-totally-uncool-have-paid-off/#respond" title="Comment on Those years of being totally uncool have paid off">No Comments</a></p> </div> <p class="postdate">October 2nd, 2008</p> <div class="post" id="post-149"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2008/10/just-so-were-clear/" rel="bookmark" title="Link to Just so we’re clear…">Just so we’re clear…</a></h2> <p class="authormeta">by admin in <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></p> <div class="postcontent"> <p>From the venerable OED: Maverick. <strong>A.</strong> <em>n.</em><a name="00303664def2"></a> <a name="00303664-mA.1"></a><strong>1.</strong> <em>N. Amer.</em> An unbranded calf or yearling. <p class="qt"><a name="00303664q2"></a></p> <p><nobr><strong>1867</strong></nobr> in J. G. McCoy <em>Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade</em> (1940) 83 The term maverick which was formerly applied to unbranded yearlings is now applied to every calf which can be separated from the mother cow. <a name="00303664q3"></a><nobr><strong>1870</strong></nobr> J. C. D<small>UVAL</small> <em>Adventures Big-Foot Wallace</em> xxviii. 163 A party of five Tonkawa warriors came within half a mile of my ranch, and in broad daylight killed one of my fattest ‘mavericks’. <a name="00303664q4"></a><nobr><strong>1887</strong></nobr> <a href="http://dictionary.oed.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/help/bib/oed2-f2.html#f-francis" color="#002653" target="oedbib"><font color="#002653">F. F<small>RANCIS</small></font></a> <em>Saddle & Mocassin</em> 172 Nowadays you don’t dare to clap a brand on a mavorick even. <a name="00303664q5"></a><nobr><strong>1942</strong></nobr> S. K<small>ENNEDY</small> <em>Palmetto Country</em> 223 Most likely candidates for rustling are unbranded calves and cattle, called ‘mavericks’ in the West. <a name="00303664q6"></a><nobr><strong>1974</strong></nobr> <a href="http://dictionary.oed.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/help/bib/oed2-j.html#g-jenkins" color="#002653" target="oedbib"><font color="#002653">G. J<small>ENKINS</small></font></a> <em>Bridge of Magpies</em> xv. 229 Cowpunchers riding herd and trying to rope the most bloody-minded maverick that ever cut loose on the plains of Texas. </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2008/10/just-so-were-clear/" title="Permalink: Just so we’re clear…">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2008/10/just-so-were-clear/#comments" title="Comment on Just so we’re clear…">1 Comment</a></p> </div> <p class="postdate">September 27th, 2008</p> <div class="post" id="post-148"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2008/09/mccains-debate-strategy-notes/" rel="bookmark" title="Link to McCain’s Debate Strategy Notes">McCain’s Debate Strategy Notes</a></h2> <p class="authormeta">by admin in <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/politics/" title="View all posts in politics" rel="category tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/communication/" title="View all posts in communication" rel="category tag">communication</a>, <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/rhetoric/" title="View all posts in rhetoric" rel="category tag">rhetoric</a>, <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></p> <div class="postcontent"> <ol> <li> Begin every other answer with “Senator Obama doesn’t understand that…” Examples:</li> </ol> <ul> <li> ”I — I don’t think that Senator Obama understands that there was a failed state in Pakistan when Musharraf came to power.”</li> <li>“What Senator Obama doesn’t seem to understand that if without precondition you sit down across the table from someone who has called Israel a “stinking corpse,” and wants to destroy that country and wipe it off the map, you legitimize those comments.” (see enthymemes below)</li> <li>“He doesn’t understand that Russia committed serious aggression against Georgia. And Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.</li> </ul> <p> The implication is that if someone doesn’t agree with you, it is because they are stupid.</p> <p>2. Take whatever steps necessary to show that you can pronounc Ahmadinejad correctly, even if it means trying three times: </p> <blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-style: none; padding: 0px" class="webkit-indent-blockquote"><p>“Here is Ahmadinenene (ph), Ahmadinejad, who is, Ahmadinejad, who is now in New York, talking about the extermination of the State of Israel, of wiping Israel off the map, and we’re going to sit down, without precondition, across the table, to legitimize and give a propaganda platform to a person that is espousing the extermination of the state of Israel, and therefore then giving them more credence in the world arena and therefore saying, they’ve probably been doing the right thing, because you will sit down across the table from them and that will legitimize their illegal behavior.”</p></blockquote> <p>3. Use enthymemes with questionable premises. Because who is smart enough to wonder about the connecting premises? </p> <blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-style: none; padding: 0px" class="webkit-indent-blockquote"><p>Example: ”we’re going to sit down, without precondition, across the table, to legitimize and give a propaganda platform to a person that is espousing the extermination of the state of Israel, and therefore then giving them more credence in the world arena and therefore saying, they’ve probably been doing the right thing, because you will sit down across the table from them and that will legitimize their illegal behavior.” </p></blockquote> <p>Missing premise: If you talk to someone, you condone and legitimize their opinions. </p> <p>So, by extension, we should just not talk to people with whom we disagree, because that would be legitimizing their opinions. </p> <p>And if someone disagrees with you, it is because they are naive/stupid/crazy anyway. </p> <p>So there’s really no purpose or reason for persuasion in McCain’s world, is there? </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2008/09/mccains-debate-strategy-notes/" title="Permalink: McCain’s Debate Strategy Notes">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2008/09/mccains-debate-strategy-notes/#respond" title="Comment on McCain’s Debate Strategy Notes">No Comments</a></p> </div> <p class="postdate">September 16th, 2008</p> <div class="post" id="post-147"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2008/09/i-dont-get-it/" rel="bookmark" title="Link to I don’t get it">I don’t get it</a></h2> <p class="authormeta">by admin in <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/wwii/" title="View all posts in WWII" rel="category tag">WWII</a>, <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/politics/" title="View all posts in politics" rel="category tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/feminism/" title="View all posts in feminism" rel="category tag">feminism</a>, <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/rhetoric/" title="View all posts in rhetoric" rel="category tag">rhetoric</a>, <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></p> <div class="postcontent"> <p><img src="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/15women0650.jpg" alt="We Can Do It" />What What message is this poster sending? Palin is a Westinghouse war worker from World War II? She’s Rosie the Riveter? </p> <p>It’s a total non sequitor, which we know thanks to this article: Kimble, James J., and Lester C. Olson. “Visual Rhetoric Representing Rosie the Riveter: Myth and Misconception in J. Howard Miller’s “We Can Do It!” Poster.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9.4 (2006): 533-69. Kimble and Olson conclude that the feminist message of this poster was limited in WWII; it was basically produced for internal use at Westinghouse alongside many more posters that depicted women in traditionally feminine wartime roles. </p> <p>On second thought, the comparison may be more apt than I thought.In World War II, women were encouraged to apply their domestic skills to the technical workplace with such jinglas as this one from the Women’s Bureau bulletin, “What Job Is Mine on the Victory Line”?</p> <blockquote><p>If you’ve sewed on buttons, or made buttonholes, on a machine</p> <p>You can learn to do spot welding on airplane parts.</p> <p>If you’ve used an electric mixer in your kitchen,</p> <p>You can learn to run a drill press.</p> <p>If you’ve followed recipes exactly in making cake,</p> <p>You can learn to load shells.</p></blockquote> <p>Maybe this poster is implying something similar: </p> <blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-style: none; padding: 0px" class="webkit-indent-blockquote"><p>If you’ve been a beauty pageant winner,</p></blockquote> <blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-style: none; padding: 0px" class="webkit-indent-blockquote"><p>You can learn to give speeches in front of millions.</p></blockquote> <blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-style: none; padding: 0px" class="webkit-indent-blockquote"><p>If you’ve slaughtered and dressed a moose,</p></blockquote> <blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-style: none; padding: 0px" class="webkit-indent-blockquote"><p>You can learn to lead our country in battle.</p></blockquote> <blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-style: none; padding: 0px" class="webkit-indent-blockquote"><p>If you’ve been mayor of a small town,</p></blockquote> <blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-style: none; padding: 0px" class="webkit-indent-blockquote"><p>You can learn to be vice president of the nation. </p></blockquote> </div> <p class="postmeta"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2008/09/i-dont-get-it/" title="Permalink: I don’t get it">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2008/09/i-dont-get-it/#comments" title="Comment on I don’t get it">2 Comments</a></p> </div> <p class="postdate">September 11th, 2008</p> <div class="post" id="post-145"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2008/09/test/" rel="bookmark" title="Link to More Comedy">More Comedy</a></h2> <p class="authormeta">by admin in <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/i-love-bacon-underwear/" title="View all posts in i love bacon underwear" rel="category tag">i love bacon underwear</a>, <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/bacon-propaganda/" title="View all posts in bacon propaganda" rel="category tag">bacon propaganda</a>, <a href="http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></p> <div class="postcontent"> <p>Today, someone came across this blog by searching for “i love bacon underwear.”</p> <p>Perhaps there is an untapped niche market for bacon related merchandise–propaganda posters, underwear, who knows what else. 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