Book of Lies (and more recycling news)
One of Lil K's favourite books is one that we've come to affectionately call BOOK OF LIES. This is not it's official title. In fact, I'm not entirely sure the book even has a title. There's some words on the spine that say "Animal Sounds Fun!" This may be a bad translation, but I'm not sure if they mean "Animals Sound Fun!" or "Fun Animal Sounds." Either way, this sets up a theme, if you will, of what the book is going to be about. Well, it's kind of hard to even call this a book. It's more of a chew toy in the form of a book. Nevertheless, herein I will recount the sum total of it's literary contents:
Page 1 - Quack says the Duck
Page 2 - Ribbit says the Frog
Page 3 - Kitty says Meow
Page 4 - Arf says the Dog
Page 5 - Bees buzzz all day
Page 6 - Bunny like to play
Pages 1 & 2 have that crinkly material that babies love. Pages 3 & 4 have a squeaky toy in between the fabric. Pages 5 & 6 have the same crinkly material.
Maybe you've noticed two things about the contents. Aside from the inconsistent rhyme structure, there are two big problems with this book. First, neither the Arf of a Dog nor the Meow of the Kitty sound like a squeak. Second, "Bunny likes to play" is not a sound. It is these inconsistencies that have led us to call it the BOOK OF LIES.
We enjoy the Eric Carle book "Colours-Colores" much more. It has blessed us the the phrase "El Gato dice miau."
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I neglected one link the other day in my diabtribe about recycling. It's a new, free service called Catalog Choice. It's a clearing house for contacting retailers who send out catalogues. It is meant to get them to stop sending catalogues you don't want to receive. What is useful about it is that you don't have contact each retailer or go through some complicated process to get off their mailing list. I just signed up, so I can't say that it works just yet. Plus, about every two years I have to call a bunch of retailers to get them to stop sending me things. Yet as soon as you order something from them again, they start up the paper catalogues again. What not a lot of people realize is that many of these catalogues are printed on paper from old growth forests in Canada. It's really not such a good thing. I don't even know how I got on the mailing list for half the stuff I get.
Also, I just found out that NYC recycles more than just items with the 1 or 2 symbol. They actually recycle "any plastic bottle or jug regardless of the symbol." I'm not sure what they mean by "jug" though. When I hear that word I think either moonshine or "Hee Haw." Additionally, you can recycle wire hangers and aluminum foil. This made me feel better until I walked by the recycle bin in the building today and there were large mounds of household garbage in it. I keep trying to convince myself that maybe people think they are recycling and thus doing good. It's better than just feeling like everyone is lazy or stupid.
Page 1 - Quack says the Duck
Page 2 - Ribbit says the Frog
Page 3 - Kitty says Meow
Page 4 - Arf says the Dog
Page 5 - Bees buzzz all day
Page 6 - Bunny like to play
Pages 1 & 2 have that crinkly material that babies love. Pages 3 & 4 have a squeaky toy in between the fabric. Pages 5 & 6 have the same crinkly material.
Maybe you've noticed two things about the contents. Aside from the inconsistent rhyme structure, there are two big problems with this book. First, neither the Arf of a Dog nor the Meow of the Kitty sound like a squeak. Second, "Bunny likes to play" is not a sound. It is these inconsistencies that have led us to call it the BOOK OF LIES.
We enjoy the Eric Carle book "Colours-Colores" much more. It has blessed us the the phrase "El Gato dice miau."
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I neglected one link the other day in my diabtribe about recycling. It's a new, free service called Catalog Choice. It's a clearing house for contacting retailers who send out catalogues. It is meant to get them to stop sending catalogues you don't want to receive. What is useful about it is that you don't have contact each retailer or go through some complicated process to get off their mailing list. I just signed up, so I can't say that it works just yet. Plus, about every two years I have to call a bunch of retailers to get them to stop sending me things. Yet as soon as you order something from them again, they start up the paper catalogues again. What not a lot of people realize is that many of these catalogues are printed on paper from old growth forests in Canada. It's really not such a good thing. I don't even know how I got on the mailing list for half the stuff I get.
Also, I just found out that NYC recycles more than just items with the 1 or 2 symbol. They actually recycle "any plastic bottle or jug regardless of the symbol." I'm not sure what they mean by "jug" though. When I hear that word I think either moonshine or "Hee Haw." Additionally, you can recycle wire hangers and aluminum foil. This made me feel better until I walked by the recycle bin in the building today and there were large mounds of household garbage in it. I keep trying to convince myself that maybe people think they are recycling and thus doing good. It's better than just feeling like everyone is lazy or stupid.
Milk comes in a jug.
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That is a very good point. I guess it's been so long since I bought milk in a gallon size container that I stopped thinking of it. I guess that would make me "elitist" to some. Still, aside from milk and moonshine, what else comes in jugs? And I know for damn sure I ain't recycling my 'shine jugs!
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