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10 Things: POKE
Monday, April 25, 2011 at 1:13PM Need a little writing inspiration? How about a writing kick in the pants?
Join me for a game of 10 THINGS-INGS-ings-ings.
Need a little refresher? Me too. I’m going to shout out a word and you’re going to use the writing instrument of your choice to scribble or type out the first 10 THINGS you think of. Ready? (I’ll meet you down at the bottom of the page.)
10 Things: POKE
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Here are my ten things for POKE!
1. Facebook. Poke.
2. Poke in the ribs. A cousin of the nudge.
3. Cowpoke.
4. The Pokey Little Puppy. Who didn’t actually do any poking or nudging.
5. I need that like I need a poke in the eye. Or the ribs.
6. Pokemon. Pikachu. How is that even spelled?
7. Poker - Texas Hold ‘Em and the Corb Lund song, “All I wanna do is play cards.” (On the album Hair in my Eyes Like a Highland Steer. I’d link it, but it doesn’t seem to have an official video. You’ll find it.)
8. A fireplace poker out in my back yard, in the rain, oxidizing. Waiting to be picked up by a maniac, or perhaps by me, in self-defense, while gardening, to ward off the suburban lawn demons.
9. Is it dead? Poke it and see if it moves.
10. Poke. “Ow, quit it.” Poke. “Ow, quit it.” You know, it’s a scene from The Simpsons. Poking Bart.
11. (Who says I have to stop? POKE ON!) poke poke poke poke poke poke poke poke poke poke poke poke poke poke poke poke (whatever you do, do NOT google ‘poke’ and then look at the images. No, stop!)
12. Poke -> Polk. You know, Polk, Andrew Polk? Can anyone name me anything about this president? Is anyone even reading this?
13. Poke the yolk and let it run onto your toast. (Do with this one what you will, but as I’ve gone through to link these, I’ve learned that ‘Poka Yoke’ is a Japanese term for fail-safing a system. Um, yeah.)
14. Some people don’t let children have knives, pencils, forks, or other pointy implements (pokers?) for fear that the kids’ll poke or stab each other or themselves. Or. We could teach the children HOW TO USE these COMMON and USEFUL tools. Ahem.
15. Poke and provoke sound a lot alike and are sometimes synonymous. Sort of like provoking me about prolonging children’s ignorance and then using the outcome to justify prolonging the ignorance. (Why do I want to put a ‘u’ in prolonging???)
Poke me with a comment and let me know what tumbled out for you.
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Reader Comments (1)
I told you not to Google 'poke.'