Ya Gotta Know This About That: Word Salad

Is this another new salad or what?

Word salad has been around for many many years. In the writing field it means something a bit different than the medical field but it's still close to the medical meaning.

When I write a word salad, it's usually when I'm really having a bad day. To give you an example of word salad, here's an example: "Eyes charity bonus cheating person bonus slipped."

That word salad is just a bunch of words which make no sense at all. A lot of mentally disturbed persons link words together which make no sense. It's called schizophasia. This particular salad is mixed up and repetitive and confused.

Sometimes, even on the best of days, I might write a word salad which doesn't make much sense, but at least it fills the page. You might leave shaking your head and wondering ""what the heck did she just say"". Well just think a bit further....if you couldn't figure it out......I know that I couldn't figure out what the heck I was saying even though I wrote it.

Typically our language and our writings, should resemble something nice and organized .... perhaps like a lettuce salad, made with a high class romaine or bibb lettuce, settled on the bottom of the bowl, and topped with a nice array of chopped tomatoes, croutons, onions, cucumbers, and topped with a creamy salad dressing. But, a word salad is thrown together and resembles a tossed salad where the lettuce and tomatoes and croutons, etc, land where they land and the whole things looks confused and not refined at all. How do you like your salad.....refined and respectable or tossed around and confused? I'll take refined!!

So I will leave you today, thinking about a salad you might not even known existed. I bet if you think about it long enough, you probably have known people whose writings or language were like word salads.....unorganized and confused with no structure. Give them a break.....they're probably from a small town where there's nothing going on.....ever.....and they're having boredom days! Surely not!

Old Stuff From Greenview History
(taken from a huge documented history I got from my grandmother)

The pergola in the park was built in 1886 at a cost of $500.00.

The coal companies consolidated and several citizens left Greenview to seek other employment, leaving 25 vacant houses in Greenview. In September 1893, the Greenview Butter and Cheese company was incorporated. A creamery was built on lots that were known later as the B. C. Armeling home. This was known as the Elstrodt residence when the company started.

(Note from me....the history says: in 1968 the land where this cheese company/B . C. Armeling was, is occupied by Donald Beatty. (I know that Donald Beatty lived across from the high school next to the John Dennis house but I don't know if this is the location where the Cheese company was).

In 1893 Greenview had a fire which destroyed several businesses in the business area. The old buildings were replaced by substantial brick buildings.

In June 21, 1897, the village board voted to build a brick jail for $978, replacing the 12 x 12 foot jail made of 2 x 4's spiked together at the corners, log cabin style. The new jail stood on the northeast corner of block 13 across from the coal office. It was moved to the north side of the square and used for a place to sober up drunks till the new brick one was completed.

The last of the wooden sidewalks were laid in 1899....the walks required about $500 per year to be kept in repair and lasted about 11 years.

Oil was first applied to the village streets in 1917.

Quote For The Day

I don't care what is written about me

so long as it isn't true.

--Dorothy Parker

Have you had the occasion to run into the phrase "nanny banned". I believe it's being used a lot for states which are implementing a bunch of bans on things. Better known as control freaks running amok!

Whatever happened to the "land of the free and home of the brave"???? It's almost like the states are trying to put their hands around our delicate necks and tighten the hold and strangle until we are dried up prunes. Folks your rights and freedom are being sucked out from beneath you.

New York says you can't buy a huge drink because it might make a person fat. Even if you've been starving for a drink after you've been three days out in the hot desert of the suburbs of New York City, don't count on being able to purchase a long tall large drink of soda to replace the sugar you lost during your trek in the desert of New York (well there's a New York minute so I can conger up a desert if I want).

North Carolina is threatening to send a blogger to prison because he blogged about his battle against diabetes. He has suddenly become what the state is calling....practicing nutrition.

These cities are using micro chips on a person's garbage to monitor the recycle habits of persons. Cleveland, OH; Charlotte, NC; Alexandria, VA; Boise, ID; Dayton, OH; Flint, MI.

In Minnetonka MN, you can be arrested for having a muddy vehicle.

In Hilton Head, SC it's illegal to have trash in your vehicle.

Many major cities across the US have banned feeding the homeless due to health reasons.

In California, a person can't have a bible home study without a permit.

In many states it's illegal for a person to collect rain on a person's own property....because the state governments are claiming ownership of the rain. (OMG how stupid!!) If I lived in one of those states I would call the state government and demand that the "state's" frozen rain (snow) is clogging my yard, therefore the state should come and remove the snow/frozen rain.

And there are many more of these stupid nanny bans......control freaks at their worst!!! This is what states/cities are paying their legislative and administrative people to concentrate on.....seems that if this is all they have to do then they are not needed on a full time basis.

In this great state of Illinois, I don't think we have this rain possession law ....YET....but give them time. They will probably spend time on something like this rather than figuring out how to get out of debt they have created.....Of course it might be wise for them to tax the water we drink from the wells in our yard....after all the rain is soaked into the ground, goes to the underground well....so basically I would be drinking the state's water. Watch out folks, the Illinois lawmakers might do this....just for tax money!!

Now you know about nanny banned....stop the control freaks in government!!!