Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Part 1
definition: EXTRAORDINARILY GOOD
Just another word to describe this place, seriously I might be starting to run out of superlatives to describe WA!
I deliberately picked supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as I believe keywords and phrases are quite a big deal round these parts. My mildly autistic mind is instantly drawn to weird things like car number plates, telephone numbers,newspaper headlines and the like!
The newspaper headline that I remember more than any other, is from 20 or so years ago and it was actually on the back page of a Scottish daily paper on their sports section.
(Bear with me here, non-sports fans, trust me it’s worth reading on!)
The previous evening had seen a Scottish cup match between a third division lowly ranked club called Inverness Caledonian thistle (nickname Caley) and the unstoppable juggernaut of a team who were probably top of the first division, a proper David v Goliath contest as you can imagine.
Surely enough Inverness (CALEY) won the game 3.1 I think it was against Celtic and the genius sports reporter produced the next day headline:
SUPER CALEY GO BALLISTIC, CELTIC WERE ATROCIOUS
I mean, for me, a headline just doesn’t get any better than that and for me to remember it so clearly after all this time, it certainly hits home the importance of words and phrases that are going to leave there mark.
Part 2
I can’t do a blog now without a mention of my goals and achievements thus far, I’ll do them by numbers if that’s ok with you guys?!
INFINITY the amount of enthusiasm I’m hoping to retain during my time here
257 Beautiful people following me and helping to build my network
16 Likes on my last blog, I am so happy about that and I appreciate every single one
1 Hour study on training per day, I hope this will increase as I get to grips more with my website
0.001 percent of distance covered in my journey so far, in other words, I plan to stick around for a looong time and achieve as much as I can
Thankyou for taking the time to read, best wishes
Heyday
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Now you have 14 likes! I liked the rhythm of that headline. Mimics supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Ya think it was intentional? Probably so, I'm guessing. Or do you think sports reporters would be familiar with such a BIG word??! Or the song?
Thanks Carol, it was totally intentional to mimic the phrase from the word which originated from Mary Poppins back in the 1960’s, so going back to the 1990’s it was still a more popular catchphrase that what it is now sadly, unless we can re-inspire it’s deserving recognition....
That's what I thought. I love puns, and boy, was that a good one! I can see why you remembered it all these years. Carol
Yes Carol (note to self: don’t use up all the big guns straight away!)
I’ve got nothing left now!!
Absolutely Kaju, I’m guessing you could do a nice rendition of the song too. I have a lot to learn about writing blogs, I’ve just checked out one of yours: The Juggernaut vs. the Jester Doff of the hat to you Sir!
Thank You HeyDay, and I enjoyed this one! Feel free to catch up on some of my others if you like.
Went to Glasgow to watch football, Scottish style years ago. I enjoyed the two sides (fans) throwing a few things at each other during and after the game. Now that was a game! Thanks for your enthusiasm!
Joe
Religion plays a massive part between the 2 big Glasgow clubs and unfortunately the mindless minority can get a little too excited at times
Hi Heyday. Your blogs are fun to read. I am sure you will succeed; you have a great personality (at least on paper). For success here at WA, it is what's on the paper that counts.
Blessings to you,
Dottie
Thank you Dottie for your kind words. I’ll be honest and say that through text I feel like I can be more like the real me
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WOW! I van't even pronounce this word. No thanks, I will just stick with the regular words that anybody can understand. Great headline though! Congratulations! Great blog! Thanks!
Thanks Norbert, it’s all about the headlines for me. I want people to sit up, and think, um, this looks interesting
Have a great weekend and look out for my fourth blog, I’ve rated it at ‘good’ out of 10, but I’ll let you be the judge of that. it’s coming out probably tomorrow now, as I’m only allowed one a day!
Heyday
I looked up that word on Wikipedia and found a great story on that. Do you think it would be appropriate to write a blog on that?
Absolutely, why not? Tag me in, and I’ll read it. Glad that it’s inspired you
How do I tag you in?
When you write a blog it won’t let you publish it, until you tag at least 2 people in. The tag box is at the bottom left of the blog page and if you type my name ‘heyday’ in the search box and press the blue add button, I should get a notification