The Queen's Meme - The Woodstock Meme - Scroll down for Wordless Wednesday

"The scene: You are at Woodstock. You go alone but meet up with a beautiful man/woman. You spend three days together.

Put yourself inside the peace & love vibe. You can choose to be stoned or straight. I put it in the story for the sake of reality. Just don't inhale in this meme.

This is the conversation you have upon meeting or you can make it into what you overhear others say.

It makes no sense and has no continuity by design.

You must fill in the familiar blanks to finish the story. Some are song lyrics. You may use more than one word to fill in the blanks.

Oh! I forgot to tell you (must be the smoke in here) You have a new name. It must be a combination of the first letter of your first name, the third letter of your middle name and the last letter of your last name.

Peace out! Somebody might wanna turn on a fan in here." - Mimi


1 - Me - "Hello. My groovy name? It's Jaramzah."

Him - "By the looks of those flowers in your hair, you must be my very own Flower Child. Didn't they tell you? No goddesses allowed!"

2 - Me - "Come on, Baby, light my fire, already."

**puff puff**

Him - "When I lay me down to sleep I pray the Flower Goddess Child my dreams to keep."

Me - "If I perish in your arms before I wake, I pray the Eternal Father my blissful soul to take."


3 - Him - "Because the first time ever I saw your face, I knew I wanted that song to play as you walk down the aisle someday...toward me. I realized that what the world needs now is your sweet kisses making me shut the heck up. Besides, I always feel guilty watching you turn every head when I should be fighting them off you. But I dig it!"

4 - Me - "Have I told you lately that I want to make a poem out of you? Hey! Don't step on that blanket - I think there's a couple getting it on in there... At least, I hope that's what they're doing *giggle* !! Dude. That guy is really weird but....."

5 - Him - "There's a party in my sleeping bag. And half a million of my magical massage-away-your-troubles friends are coming over tonight. And we're gonna set those massage friends free to play all over my baby. Off my mind!"

Me - "Darn the luck. It's raining manna and it's surely come from heaven."

Him - "Luckily, Papa was a rolling stone, in his way. He used to take us out here on the weekends and I'm on a first name basis with the cops."

**puff puff**

6 - Me - "I'm really digging your vibe. But that joint has got to go. *waving hand back and forth to clear the smoke*

Him - "Those flowers in your hair are beginning to smell like cotton candy." *giggle*

Me - "Have I told you lately that I'm so glad to have tripped over you?"


7 - Him - "I'm beginning to see a forest bed set up just for us in those trees over there. Do you see it?"

Me - "Out of all the millions of hippies here, you are the most adorable. And the most like an old-fashioned romantic. But I dig it, man."

8 - Him - "I'd use all my blood, sweat and salty tears just to get next to your skin. Just to lay my head on your chest and listen to your heartbeat."

Me - "Love is free. But... I'd really like to buy that guy's big poncho. It says 'Make love, not war.' "

Him - "Far out!"

9 - Me - "I'm grateful to be a bit farther away from the crowd. 'Cause there's a bad hum from the speakers rising in Jefferson's Airplane."

Him - "But that's okay. 'Cause Joe Cocker said I could get by with a little help from my friends." *leans over and kisses me*

10 - Me - "Oh, by the way, your passionate heart is on fire. But I dig it."


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Forest photo by Michael Stanton

The Queen's Meme - WBLOG TV - Scroll down for Wordless Wednesday

WBLOG TV: The Meme

"The place where unbloggable news happens and sources are never a secret. You are the creator, producer, writer and news anchor of the WBLOG nightly news. It is your job to deliver the news in your own style from your own blog." - Thus speaketh the Queen of Memes

1 - The Weather Channel: Give me your personality forecast. Are you sunny, wet, windy, or cloudy? Why?

This morning gave A Piece of My Mind scattered thundershowers as a migraine brewed early in the day. But a high pressure acupuncture system leveled the storm by midday - a first, ladies and gentlemen. A first! Never, in the history of this migraineur, has a day that started out with narcotic painkiller moved within hours to taking acetaminophen with codeine, to going 7 hours with no painkiller - and counting.

Forecast for this blogger: "Sunny days, sweepin' the clouds away..."

2 - The News Channel: What is the breaking news story of the day in your world?

Four-day weekend = 4000 words on my Victorian-gardener-becomes-Van-Diemen's-Land-convict story. Cue the fireworks!

3 - The Economic Channel: How are things on the economic front? And more importantly, do you have ideas to save the planet from financial ruin?

In financial markets, A Piece of My Mind is suffering a recession due to the effects of the acupuncture mentioned earlier in our weather segment. Employee health benefits performed well during the first quarter, but the historic stockmarket decline within the neurotransmitters forecasts a prolonged season of treatment which falls far outside of health coverage parameters.

It's Victory Garden time, folks. And eyebrow-pencil-down-the-legs-instead-of-nylons.

But we'll flash the V for Victory sign - remember the 7-hour gap in painkiller? It's all worth it.

In international business news, one word says it all when it comes to saving the planet: Microcredit.

4 - The Entertainment Channel: Give us the latest blog celebrity gossip. Dish it!



















Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby will celebrate his 22nd birthday in his home town of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia - the originating broadcast signal for A Piece of My Mind.

On Aug. 7th, Sid the Kid will bring the Stanley Cup home to share with all of us in here in Cole Harbour.

"I’ve always had this dream of playing street hockey for the Cup," Crosby told a crowd of excited employees at the Montreal headquarters of Reebok-CCM Hockey earlier this month.

"I did it growing up. But this time, we have the real one. So I’m going to get some friends together that I grew up with and we’re going to play for the real thing this time." - Chronicle Herald

5 - The Sports Channel: Make up a sport, give your team a name and choose five players from the list of names on the Mr. Linky list. What are the rules of the game?

The game is Bennis. I played it all the time as a kid. It's rather like volleyball, but with a balloon and without a net. The rules are - once the balloon is in the air, don't let it touch the floor. Every kind of spectacular dive and pretzel-like move is encouraged. There's no scoring. Only gales of laughter at the lengths to which team members will go to keep the balloon off the floor.

Star athletes for Bennis:

Finding Pam
Jen the Dust Bunny Hostage
Mielikki
Psychic Mama Indigo Child
Mejis

6 - The Comedy Channel: How will you make us laugh today? Tell us a blunny (that's blog + funny for all you non-blog speakers)

I'll hand this over to the folks from Corner Gas:



7 - The Religious Channel: Make up a blog religion. Tell us why your blog church will save our souls.

I can't make up a religion any more amazing than the very Blogosphere itself. When I enter the great fellowship of Blogdom, I feel connected to people all over our fabulous planet. I love joining virtual hands with everyone I've met here - most especially all of you!

In my Church of Blogdom, we stress Not Apologizing For Not Posting. It's summer. Live!

8 - (but who's counting?) The Soap Opera Channel: What is the name of your soap opera?

Days and Weeks and Months of Our Lives Covering for Everyone Else at Work is a long-running soap opera that runs wherever workplaces limp through summer vacation staff shortages. You may be a long-time viewer of this show.

Will the manager return from her cottage to regale the staff about the roast she has waiting in the oven - when her staff has been sucking on dry macaroni while waiting for Employment Benefits to kick in during the enforced lay-off? The same lay-off that allowed the manager to get suntanned at her cottage?

Will the new employee who told the small business owner that she needed training take it personally when he hands her Windows XP For Dummies?

Will the evening shift employee who gets stuck training all the new staff and who arrives to a back hallway filled with stock to be priced be able to resist strangling her boss when, after re-counting the safe four times to find $300.00 missing, arrives the next evening to be told 'it was found' - and then hears chatter about the boss's luck at the casino the night of the missing money?

Tune in next week when an office-wide meeting is called by the visiting executive - who tells everyone to buy the book Who Moved My Cheese?

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The Queen's Meme - Mission Impossible

Mission Impossible Meme

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Moon Landing










1. You are a guest on the space shuttle. You just arrived on the moon and realize you forgot something back home that you can't live without. What is it and how do you convince them to go back and fetch it?















My asthma puffers! Definitely can't live without them. When one of the astronauts cracks a really dark joke, I start laughing uncontrollably. This leads to much wheezing, tears and clutching at my throat - while still laughing. That's when the missing puffers are discovered. Or rather, not discovered. Luckily, the astronauts are a bunch of smarty-pants people. They rig up some concoction or other, and in ten minutes or so the wheezing settles down.

But then the same guy cracks another joke...

2. Pretend you are a teacher in a rough public school for one day. You have been assigned to teach Manners 101. You have the "challenging bad butt kids" class (remember this is a pretend school and anyway I can't say ass on my blog 'cause it's so unQueenly and I might get fined or something). They are jumping up and down, cursing, and throwing things at you.
What is the first thing you would write on the board?





First, I would use my Scorpio Dragon Death Glare to freeze all the rowdies in their tracks. This is the greatest weapon in my personal arsenal. I've used it my whole life, and it never lets me down.

Next I would invite whomever was willing to admit they didn't know the answer to my question to write the answer on the board, once we reviewed it in class. This would hopefully keep the disrupters from wanting to advertise their inadequacies. And for students truly interested in learning, it would facilitate discussion and push everyone a little farther along the learning curve.

3. Someone in your family or a friend has started a blog. They think it is anonymous but you have figured it out. They are saying derogatory things about you. Do you tell them or do you read it for awhile? How would you handle it?

















I read it, comment under a different name and wait. Wait for that perfect moment - perhaps a gathering of peers - to mention a tidbit along with my incognito name that only the offending blogger would recognize. Then I watch the blogger's skin go pasty pale.

4. If you had one dollar left in your pocket, what would you spend it on?



















A coffee. I often spend my last dollar on coffee. That's how I know.

5. President Obama and the First Lady are coming over for dinner. What do you serve?



















Once they arrive, I tell them to pile back into their limo. We're heading out to The Sou'Wester out at Peggy's Cove for fish and chips and gingerbread.

6. You walk in on your lover. He or she is trying on your clothes. What do you do?


















I tell him he looks very fetching.

Then I join him, and we goof around until the clothes come back off again...













7. Every astronaut must have shots! Choose your vaccination: You only get one and you can't enjoy any of the attributes of the other choices. You choose either:
(1) The fountain of eternal youth and sexual vigor but only for 10 years
(2) perfect health for a lifetime
(3) eternal mind-numbing nirvana and peace of mind
(4) unlimited hedonism for one year with no negative consequences.


Perfect health for a lifetime sounds awfully good to me, right about now (reaching for my painkiller...)

Luckily, I've got another acupuncture session tomorrow. A really intense weather system rumbling through has finally worn me down, migraine-wise - but it took a whole week. I've been abnormally able to withstand a really bad week with low pressure systems socking us in.

But I do have to sigh with relief that it's Friday.

To play along, visit Mimi at The Queen's Meme.

Mimi Lenox says "The astronauts are a bunch of smarty-pants people" cracked me up.

Ms Snarky Pants says Muhaha Your brand of evil payback. It warms my heart. :D

Dorte H says Hilarious answers! LOL I liked the one about the unruly kids.