I am going to tell you a simple little thing that will make your life better.
You can use your mouth to make things more fun… no… that isn’t what I meant… get your mind out of the gutter…
I mean that your mouth can make sounds that can help improve your life. I was out in the yard this morning scooping up dog poop… bear with me, it gets better… and I noticed that I was singing a funny little opera song while I did it. I didn’t even know that I did that, but evidently I do. The song only has three words, repeated over and over again to whatever made-up, opera-sounding song I feel like using, with parts from real opera songs thrown in.
The words to this song are: scoopa da poopa… sometimes I throw an ‘I’ in front of the line, just to mix it up. Occasionally, in my best opera voice and Italian accent, I will do a little creative bit like: I scoopa it here, I scoopa it there, I scoopa da poopa everywhere. Now you may not see how me wandering around the yard with a bunch of poo singing to myself is helpful, but the thing is… oh, thing, I do love you so… that I was having more fun than if I wasn’t singing.
And I started thinking about it, and I realized how many times in a day I use a sound or a silly song to make something boring a little more fun. When I chase the dog around the backyard, I always yell, “bugbugbugbugbugbugbugbug”… I guess I am really just saying the word ‘bug’ over and over really fast in a sort of cartoony voice , but the dog likes it and it makes me smile. I also do this weird thing with my arms where I hold them against my sides and only move my forearms so I look a little like a tyrannosaurus rex who might be suffering from some sort of a mental disorder while I run around chasing the dog, but let’s save that for another time, shall we?
I also like to walk around in the middle of summer whistling Christmas songs. Try it sometime. People give you a funny look, and then can’t help smiling.
Here is a really useful one. If you are doing chores, or shopping at the market, or trying to get ready to go out, and you are having trouble getting your thoughts organized, whistle or hum the theme song from Mission Impossible. I like to do it as words… bum bum, ba ba, bum bum, ba ba bum bum ba ba bum bum, ba ba, do doo doo, doo doo doo… etc…
Try it. It works. You find yourself moving faster and being more organized.
But by far my favorite sounds are the ones I have been making up and perfecting over the years that I use when I see a baby. Babies love my silly noises! Remind me to make a video on the Ipad to show you what I look like when I see a baby… that would be fun…. except so far I haven’t been able to figure out how to get a video from there to my blog… because I am a computer moron… sigh
Pouring My Art Out 
Singing Eye of the Tiger while doing boring chores can get you moving, too.
Especially if you are putting eye drops in your pet tiger’s eyes because he has an infection…
Hooray for Christmas tunes in summer! Then again, I pretty much sing them all year long. And, I’m singing or humming or whistling something all day long anyway, so really it’s not surprising that Christmas tunes come up a lot.
Are you a Disney character???
Yes. The Jester. My movie is coming out next summer.
King of jesters and jester of kings!
I’ll go by either one of those titles if you wanted to spread that around.
I stole that from a Danny Kay movie…
The aforementioned Inch Worm was used in the Danny Kaye movie Hans Christian Andersen. HH is NOT a fan of the song. Pity. Poignant Lyrics. You must teach it to Willy.
Inch worm, inch worm Measuring the marigolds Seems to me, you’d stop and see How beautiful they are.
I know the song… read the new interview… this kid is amazing… and don’t scare her away… she is 17
Which innerview # so I can find it easy. Writing at the same time but I do want to read it.
#10… just posted it.
Never mind. Found it. #10
yes
The Court Jester?
I thinks so… it is a pretty funny movie.
Get it?
Did I miss something again? I rush through these comments in the morning to catch up.
Oh… sad. You were supposed to say: “Got it.”
The Court Jester is the movie that the saying “Get it? Got it. Good” came from.
But you ruined it!!!
I forgot… I haven’t seen it in ten or more years… I like the vessel with the pestle and the chalice from the palace and the brew that is true part…
Aw, dang. That’s where I was going next.
bazinga
Thecrogmagnanmansayswhat.
ha
I know, right?
Kelvin always quacks like Donald Duck when he sees a baby or toddler. I, the one every baby loves, just wink & they love it. They start to laugh & gurgle & reach out their arms to me.
I do quaking sounds too… but babies also love me if I am quiet…
I agree. Been doing this (non publibly) for years. Sometimes I will throw in a random scream just to feel alive. And occassionally, I have noticed how almost anything can make a functional microphone…well, except for maybe the dog poo.
Been there… done that… yuk…
She really like doing it to Mary Hopkin songs like Inch Worm and The Puppy song.
here we go again…
Dig in.
Like eat hearty or dig a deep foxhole???
I don’t know where he gets his information from, but it sounds like Fox News.
I have my sources. I mean The Puppy Song? Come on now. I’ve seen the pictures.
….
You remember the dog in the shower post where she was saving time? She’s a dog lover. How can she not like The Puppy Song.? Working on a post Falling behind here.
Women, they like their mixed messages.
Got that right.
and mixed massages…
Perhaps, but have you read Arts interview number 11?
yeah… have you?
Uh oh. Reading now.
sigh
I’ve been running malware and anti-virus scans last night and today trying to get rid of mysearchdial.com from Mozilla Firesox. Emsisoft Anti-malware found it and quarantined it but it still hijacks the home page and browser. Doesn’t seem to be a real problem except of the initial pop-up ad when the browser opens. Just annoying that someone slipped it past me when I was doing some recent updates of utilities on the computer. The scans can take from 1 to 4 hours and then usually require a restart each time. Really time consuming, so not reading much.
Hey, get rid of that nasty infection… and stay back a few feet…
Where have you been?!
ha
“Where have you been?!”
If you are asking about why it took me so long to read the #11 post, I was wrestling with this iron age computer trying to beat it into submission. If you are wondering why my absence from Art’s blog, your blog, or just in general, that’s would need a different answer to some degree. So, did I answer the right question, HH.
No… answer more…
Now you’re jumping in this too? You guys are double-teaming me. I really have been dealing with tech issue with the compuiter. The other night we had a power outtage (transformer blew) and it shut down. When I booted up the next morning, the fans in the power supply sounded like the bearing were going out. i NEVER
ok fine
Somehow hit the wrong key and posted too soon. Anyway, I NEVER shut this thing off unless I need to for an update restart so it was discouraging to hear those dual fans in a recently replaced power supply screaming. Then it would begin to load my desktop and repeatedly shut down. I finally got the fans to running smoothly (for now he says with some dread) and the thing (theres the ubiquitous “thing” Art. I have one too!) of it is I think I am on borrowed time with this box and this operating system. But that ain’t all.
I also have FINALLY published a blog and it’s care, feeding and tweaking (not twerking) is taking a lot of my time. I wasn’t going to go public with it for a while, but the plan failed so I am pushing forward with it anyway. I do rather long posts that require a lot of thought so it can be pretty consuming.from a time standpoint. The comments are much the same. There is no easy way out with the way I want to do it. Right now there isn’t much time for fun and games so I’m pretty selective about where and what I post so I don’t get overrun with mail. I spend almost as much time looking, but am really stingy with the commenting. Right now I don’t have the luxury of “channel surfing” to kill time I don’t have. The content generation and commenting would be easier If I were running a pseudo-chatroom like your doing, but if it were successful, I wouldn’t be here much either. Anyway, I am having to sort it our as I go. Not what I planned, but I’ve already drained the swamp and I’m up to my ass in alligators so I have to keep moving for now. There are still these threads from the past I deal with obviously, but I’m pedaling as fast as I can. That’s why I’m MIA a lot now.
FYI: It’s likely not your type of blog so don’t think I’m somehow bothered that you haven’t stopped by. I haven’t tried to publicize it at all. I really am going low and slow with it.
Checked it out… I admire it, but I am danged it I am smart enough to get it.
If you read the book Passinate Marriage you would find it relateable. You don’t have to understand it to get it if you follow me. Not to sound demeaning, but there are people who may not understand the complexities of the Bible, but they “get” it. Same with the theory of relativity, I don’t understand it all that well, but I get it. Or Arthur Browne. HA
ooohhhh… I have never been compared to gravity before… I ain’t heavy, I’m your brother…
Forgive me. I was remiss in not thanking you for admiring my effort. I’ve got way too much going on right now and I’m not used to it like you. You’re like that old Barrel of Monkeys game. You just keep hooking one thing on to the next and moving on.
I wish I could keep up with the flow.
There are probably very few people on this blog, not dissing anyone here, who have enough followers and post enough to truly appreciate the work required for the care and feeding of PMAO. Even without a demanding day job, it’s still a lot of work. Sometimes you probably wish you had two or three computers to be open at different sites just to keep from bouncing from tab-to-tab keeping up with it all. For me, just wrangling 3 email address is a pain. Sometimes I don’t get to one and find 1- or 2-day old mails I wish I had caught sooner. Even now I should be working a post for the blog that is a part 2 to the Dysfunctional Communication post.and is time sensitive since it is tied to Robyn’s posts. But here I am playing instead. I have to learn to budget my time and be reliable if the blog is to be relevant to people.
You stole that idea from me, where I logged into a chat room as 5 me’s with different personalities.
Stole? Such an unkind word. Perhaps borrowed at best, purloined at worst.
sirloined … ha… beef joke
Different answer. Third degree.
You read my reply to Art and are still asking, is that correct? You are now (third degree) asking if and why I am avoiding you and your blogs? Would that also be correct, HH?
yeah… what he said…
She’s backing off now Booyha. She must be loosing her tough guy egde since she quit kick boxing. Or quit the testosterone injections. Organic of course.
careful now…
No guts. No glory. I can take her to the mat. Standby for the tap out. The pain will be too intense to last for the count. I’ll toy with her a while; let her bounce back up on her feet at the two of the three count a few times and then go in for the coup de grâce. Then BAM! Sweet victory. Carried home on her shield.
Let me know how that works out
Don’t run off. You’d better stay ringside. She may need a good cut man. GRRRRRR
I can’t stand the sight of blood.
If it’s the color red that bothers you, don’t worry. Canadian organic flaming beavers bleed pink like a warm medium-rare steak.
careful… once again…
Answer please
you heard the boss.
Say what?
ha
I am the boss
Well, bossy maybe.
ha
Bruce Springsteen is the boss.
Yeah. And born in the USA, not some northern interloper and pretender to the throne.
word
Not until he is following your blog.
Well played
😀
I’ve been having fun with this, but I sense we have a real problem here. There is always underlying truth in humor, so I’ll make no jokes about you tapping your foot with that “Answer please,” directive. The word “please” is telling. I have neglected you in some way apparently and if so, I am sorry, HH. You have seen my replies to Art about my absence but they are not addressing your issue adequately. I am now taking this seriously. The Married Single bar with its banter is closed. I’ll sit in the chair with my pad while you take the couch and tell me what is troubling you. I’d be happy to shine some light into the darkness. You know where to find me. On the other hand, if you’re just playing me you have to feel pretty crappy about now.
well played indeed.
Sending you something very special in your email. You will love it and no doubt post it.
um… yay… I am interviewing aliens right now… so cool…
I was typing an answer last night, but couldn’t send (ipad glitch)…and then I realized that somehow I was receiving no notifications of your replies.
Let’s blame WordPress.
You listen to subtle cues like no one I have ever known though. It’s what makes you so friggin adorable. Art just makes fun of my subtle cues.
Fair enough. Let’s just blame WordPress, kiss and make up. There, done! That’s a haunting word. Moving quickly on:
I am an still an INFP last I checked. Intuiting is just someting I am gifted at, but not with all people and I am not always right. You and I just happen to be yin and yang with our relationship and I am exceptionally empathic with you. And yes, I am adorable. 😉
oh lord
What else can I say. She’s a special person in my life. I’m a cheerleader for her and her purpose and sometimes I’m a coach. She is very gifted and sometimes I sense when she needs guidance or affirming to keep her focus. It’s who I am. I can’t do other wise. Not anywhere near as pious, but like Martin Luther is reputed to have said before the Diet of Worms. “Here I stand, I can do no other.” Yeah, I’m a romantic too. Sigh
I went on a diet of worms once… I like the way you can fade from taking a leading role to a support role that many times in one paragraph.
I can do no other. 🙂 We all have to be good at something; just as long as I am not perceived as a Neville Chamberlain but more of a Nelson Mandella type when it comes to conflict.
Or Wilt Chamberlain…
Time for late lunch and errands. Tah.
bye buy, birdie
Clever boy.
me?
Vous. Bye buy? leaving and errands. Very clever.
ok
Calm down. Don’t be looking for any socks on the doorknob, Arthur.
umm… okay…
Well cheers then…and as an adorable INFJ we are not far off.
???
That was for Dan…
Let me know how that goes
It went well.
really
I think so. He’s sleeping right now, but when he wakes up he will tell you with great clarity how well it went.
spam
Good for me too.
sigh
Good is very good.
even when it isn’t
INFJ huh? Explains a few things. No, Don’ ask here. Art’s needs to maintain what the CIA calls “plausible deniability”. See Art. I said CIA. Now the NSA will be all over this blog with a speculum and a flashlight. Don’t cough in the doctors face. Remember that line from your induction physical?
what is INFJ
A serious aside here. Go to this site; read and see if you recognize anyone we both know.
http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html
A quick study: Beneath the quiet exterior, INFJs hold deep convictions about the weightier matters of life. Those who are activists — INFJs gravitate toward such a role — are there for the cause, not for personal glory or political power.
INFJs have a knack for fluency in language and facility in communication. In addition, nonverbal sensitivity enables the INFJ to know and be known by others intimately.
Writing, counseling, public service and even politics are areas where INFJs frequently find their niche.
Now find a site like that for me!
Seriously. Would you like me to send you some Myers-Briggs test sites to see?
I took that psychology study… I am all-art-side-of-the-brain… and manic depressive… I have done posts about it.
“Don’t swat me there”
When I think about you I swat myself
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I really couldn’t hope for more
spam
So she’s like Jethro Lee Gibbs and you’re Tony Dinozo.
No Jethro Bodine and Tony Francicosso
When did Franciosso ever smack Bodine upside the head. I think Max Jr. could have cleaned his clock.
I bet that guy could fight. But he was pretty funny.
Other than the money, it must have been pretty unfulfilling for an actor to come in and play the simple character and never have the writers come up with something that fleshed you out as a feeling human being. He sadly became pretty much a one-note Johnny after that and he was a very good actor.
Type casting, what are you gonna do?
I’ll swat any place I please. I’m running the fundraiser.
It’s a line from Art’s induction physical
spam
The welt-raiser
I am doing it right now…
I sort of thought you always were.
As long as you are thinking… that’s all that matters… not how good you are at it…
All I can think about right now is the dizzying effect your words are having on me
Is he nattering too?
Just a smattering of nattering
always
no
yes
spam
First the little people in your life and now the littler one. See. I read your blogs still.
Ha!
That is the thinking that is making you dizzy… it takes practice… HA!!!
Oh wait. It’s better now.
just breathe
I’m better now. Thanks.
spam
See that, Art? ADORABLE! 😛
whatever…
“friggin adorable” even.
I forget what we are talking about, so I have been faking my way through it… who or what is adorable???
Stubborn.
That clears it up…
10-7. time for church.
……………………………..
I just realized last night that I was having computer issues last night (and my ipad is new)…and sympathy pains happened. I can’t reply to messages on my ipad. Annoying. But hours of rebooting? Ugh. I’m sorry for giving you a hard time. Just miss you now that you have conditioned me to need to hear from you for every post. One could say you brought this on yourself. Another could say it’s good to feel needed. And yet another would find money in the budget to fix the old computer…sigh…
There is nothing sadder than watching two ships crash in the night…
Especially if they’re both apples
two bobbing apples crashing in the night
crunch
Did she just “crunch” me? A bite of the forbidden fruit.
yeah… she crunched your forbidden fruit… are you happy now?
Well, if somebody has to be. I’m up for the job.
sigh
It was an accident.
That’s what Eve said
She was right
spam
She was a lot like you, Miss Right.
Her first name was Always
And It’s the one female gene that is always passed down. Never skips a generation.
doh
You knew her?
Well, not in the Biblical sense.
oh my
The sun got in her eyes coach. She’s gonna make one of us out to be the serpent and disavow all knowledge of what happened. She forgets though, knowledge came with the bite. She knows what she did and why. Don’t let her con her way out of this.
Don’t you mean wiggle her way out? hello… serpent metaphor…
All this and a metaphor coach to boot. A symbiotic relationship.
symbirobotic
Apple Bob Crunch Pants…
Very good, Arthur.
Thanks.
I save all my brilliance for the comments… the blog is just a sham
For a select few comments at that. Stickin’ and jabbin’.
Like a nurse at the free clinic
That’s two very goods in one day, well 12 hr period anyway.
You dare sound surprised? You are a mediocre minion at best.
Replies to MY comments exclusive of others. Your’re forgetting context again.
I don’t got to show you no stinkin’ context!
And seldom do.
right
ha
ah
stop that
spam
Yes, it is good to feel needed…like an addicting drug. I don’t have the budget of a new box either and I’m still on XP which is now unsupported so browser and software issues are going to start building pretty fast here this year. Glad Firefox is usable. IE really taxes my CPU now. !00% usage a lot. Really slows things down.
speak English…
I’ll leave that to Trent. He’s so precise.
Precisely
Notice the structure of the reply here, minions. He is a master of getting in that last word. What is left to say after he say Precisely? Very slick.
Exactly…
Game. Set. Match. Browne. *Polite applause from the gallery.*
I do what I can.
Wow, I’ve never used !00% usage before. Sounds like a virus. Where can I donate for a new computer?
Right here….
Are you hustling my action? How am I supposed to get a new computer if you hustle my money out of HH.
So now I am a fund raising blog… for other people?
JUst me…and well, maybe her free art project. We need to subsidize that too. If I have no computer or ISP the world will be a less interesting place and lives a little sadder.
You are a minion… go steal something…
But you get on me when I run my hustle.
Not here… steal something outside the lair like a good minion.
how much do you recommend?
…ooo000ooo…
I have just enough.
for the city
No, it’s for Dan’s computer. You know what? Never mind.
spam
YO. Stevie my man.
who said that?
ok… that was mean
HH said “i have just enough” and you said ” for the city” and I said YO. Stevie my man completing the reference and supplying the context. Now, how is that mean?
No… because he is blind… and I said ‘who said that’… I was being mean… there is your context…
Whoa. I totally missed that. That was a little to esoteric for my quick read Excellent. You are worthy. You are worthy. That’s why you sit upon the throne my liege..
I sit on the throne because there is a toilet under the fancy cover.
Don’t spray the fancy lid with the embroidery with a bleaching cleaner. It’ll take all the color out of the threads.
Uh… I have minions for that…
Third degree black belt…
Notice the punctuation. The question mark indicates concern and curiosity. The exclamation point turns it into a demand. Like i have slipped into the bedroom late in the dark of night to a “Just where the hell have you been.” That Innerview #11 was pretty telling. I noticed how she kept avoiding direct answers and trying to wrest control away from you. She’a a sly manipulator, that one, but I think we have her figured out. Like i oft say to HH, “Why am I not surprised?”
Because nothing I do here surprises you anymore?
Oh my…now I must be careful of my punctuation?! Well, it always had been that way with you, hasn’t it? Very well then, gloat…you are right. Right. RIGHT.
However, the interview was less about controlling Art and more about making him cringe. He never did admit to it even once, but I knew it happened…and it was sweet victory for me…
That wasn’t a cringe… one of the squirrels ran down the back of my neck on his way to take a bathroom break… it tickled.
You and HH are really stubborn. 🙂 Neither will admit to being bested by the other.
Because I never was.
My point elegently made. Thank you.
No, thank you.
No you don’t, I won’t be drawn into some Chip and Dale “You go first. No, no. YOU go first,” routitne with you, Slicker.
Slicker? Slick maybe… Mr. Slicker… City Slicker… the pen is slicker than the sword…
So you admit you peed a little bit then?
Yeah, but I was aiming at the squirrel…
glad to hear that
They move fast
Not underwater they don’t. You could try it.
where did that come from
Remeber the inner view and past posts? She has this thing about pee and peeing. Wassup with that?
she’s a freak… she’s super freaky… she has a brick outhouse…
♪ ♫ ♪
ha
Pee happens.
Hap-peeness
Nice one!
spam
When YOU get the giggle or laugh too hard.
Or just when the mood strikes
She’s going for the win, Art. If nothing else, she persistent and consistent. Persistently consistent. HUMM. Let’s hack into her WP account and change the name of her blog to Persistence 2 Consistence.
Incontinence
Gasp…you wouldn’t.
And just for the record I have NEVER ONCE had the last word in any of my conversations with Art. He is obsessive that way…incredulous…and…swat worthy.
I never lose this game.
Swat
Hey. You didn’t pay for a ticket for the SWATTING fundraiser. Go to the back of that very long line behind you.
The sultan of swat has spoken
I tried to pay for it but Art was rushing me and my hands got all sweaty
I have that effect on women
You pee on their hands?
spam
There she goes again with bodily fluids. I’ll get her fascination figured out before too long.
why?
Because my figuring her out keeps her vulnerable to me and that vulnerability is what makes her so adorable and so much fun to banter with. She also gives as good as she gets. We all want to battle a worthy opponent. What fun is there in besting one of lesser skill..
Well, then I should find someone as clever as me to banter with? HA!!!!!
That’s why the throne is yours in this universe. There is no equal.
That is the only reason I have decided to become supreme dictator… no one else is qualified.
There’s no posting and no open application process with vetting?
no
Oh. Okay then.
ha
Very funny.
You keep giving him openings…
Who him? Am I being hung out to dry again?
maybe
😛
tawS
Selling tickets to that event as we speak. Not to watch. To swat.
Call the swat team.
Excellent. A brilliant way to fund your new computer. I’ll take three.
Is this like a kissing booth for people who like spankings???
You tell me. You’re in it.
spam
He’s not alone it seems. It’s plenty crowded in here. Move over a little will you?
ow… my foot
A couple of swat from her and your mind won’t be on your foot.
I am more of a swatter than a swattee
Get ready to duck then.
I always am
See. You protest all the time, but you set me up for this stuff. You’re like the big brother who always get his little brother to do the stuff he doesn’t want to get caught at. Butt since you brought it up, Otay Spanky. I’m in. Can’t decide….Doer or doee.
What you people do in your spare time is… better not done here in my secret lair.
Make that payable to my amazon witsh list. Hurry back if you want more. They are going faster than I anticipated. Lost of multiples.
There were a few spelling mistakes on my tickets, so it looks like I’m going to need another set of 30.
this was spammed…
HH, I’ll get right on that. The presses are turning as we speak.
spamalot
?
“?”-HH asked where to make payment for the tickets.
It’s my guess you are reading and replying from a reader and that’s why you lose context sometimes. I do it out of my yahoo mail where they keep dumping in the same mail and building the thread. Before yahoo did a new version, EACH reply came in as a serarate mail. Now the new ones come in above the old ones as a thread in the first mail that started it. That’s why Silly Advice first mail has literally 144 items in that one mail in my box. THe new ones show the typiclal WP notification box and the rest are truncated one-liners you have to click to open. It will sayClick and they open in the WP notification box. In the subject box it will say +137 messages. If it gets too cumbersome, I delete the mail and when you send a new comment it starts building again. If I get lost I just click on the word “commented” by the name of the person who commented and it takes me directly to your blog and the exact spot in the tthread where the comment sits. I go back in the comments to find context if I have forgotten, which ain’t often as you have noticed.
doh
I concur 🙂
And that’s the exact sort of daft stuff I do around my g/f or on my own when hopefully no one is listening. It definitely helps to make something less mundane and distract the mind from some routine tasks.
That’s probably why fishermen or slaves used song to get through the day.
I like to do it when people are listening too…
Dangerous!
I am shameless and very shy at the same time, but I like silly.