Seven

US license plates can have 7 characters. Drivers can either be assigned random letters and numbers or they can pay a small fee to choose their own license message. There are a lot of great 7-character possibilities other than misspelled names and other expressions of vanity. Here are some suggestions:

Inspiring Choices:

Honesty

Freedom

Liberty

Justice

Empathy

Equally

Success

Achieve

Ageless

Reality

Liberal

Inspire

SnowDay

Sisters

Brother

Forgive

Insight

Lovable

Amazing

Magical

Healthy

Healing

Win-Win

NiceDay

StandUp

Helping

Charity

Patient

Dreamer

Jetaime

Journey

Destiny

Forward

Courage

Present

Breathe

Engaged

Observe

Imagine

Believe

Musical Choices:

RAMONES

Beatles

IggyPop

Blondie

Bangles

AlGreen

TheCars

TheCure

Puccini

Luciano

Santana

Nirvana

NoDoubt

LouReed

Pantera

Madonna

Beyonce

Rihanna

BonJovi

Journey

Genesis

BeeGees

Chicago

Regional Choices:

Indiana

Arizona

Florida

Georgia

Montana

Vermont

Wyoming

MidWest

America

England

Ireland

Senegal

Hungary

Iceland

African

Iranian

Chinese

Persian

Liberia

Jamaica

Finland

Equador

Belgium

Vietnam

Ukraine

Romania

Germany

Denmark

Algeria

Houston

Phoenix

Madison

Atlanta

Seattle

Buffalo

Chicago

Ill-Advised Choices:

NoHands

CantSee

Baboons

Banshee

Crazies

Idiotic

ThrowUp

Boogers

Penises

Wrecker

Crasher

Wipeout

Extinct

Convict

Suspend

License

CopKill

MeCrash

Mispell

Star Trek:

NCC1701

CapKirk

MrSpock

DrMcCoy (or DrBones)

LtUhura

MrScott (or Scotty!)

Lt.Sulu

Romulan

Klingon

JeanLuc

LaForge

Crusher

Voyager

TheBorg

Shatner

Other:

Atheism

Gnostic

Praying

Judaism

Jainism

Taoism

Sikhism

Adonism

Erotica 

Planets

Spiders

Amoebas

Theater

Theatre (British)

British

Confuse

Treason

Commute

Roaming

OffRoad

Carpool

If you use any of these or have any other suggestions, please post a comment!

Improved Words!

The results of the Great (Daisy) Brain Experiment (see previous two posts) are in. No brilliant post topics came to mind. And so, I bring you a post largely written before the experiment but held off for publication in case my brain suddenly produced something more profound, which it didn’t. So, here it is….

Words are a little slow in keeping up with the culture. I’m here to help them along….

Lackadaisical should be “Slackadaisical”.

Enemy should be “Unfriend”.

Election should be “Purchection” (Purchase + Election).

Democracy has become “Demockery”.

Sexting should be “Phonicating,” which would allow for variants like “Phonicate,” and “Phonication”.

Big Brother should be “Facebook”.

Debates now “Debase,” thanks to the Republican primary.

Education should be “Testification”.

A Sweatshirt Hoodie should be a “Sweatie”.

www.daisybrian.wordpress.com should be, and is, “www.daisybrain.com”.

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Here are Six Mind Boggling Suggestions.

The Great (Daisy) Brain Experiment Part I

As previously discussed, I am in the midst of a brain experiment. I have been at a creative impasse in my blogging. And so, starting last night, I have been using all standard and alternative methods I can think of to hone my cognitive powers, in order to produce an ingeniously clever blog post. As I type, it is 12:47 pm and I have thus far accomplished the following brain-enhancing behaviors:

(Daisy) Brain Experiment Intro.

As usual, I feel a compelling urge to blog without enough “curious thoughts and observations” to blog about. I have a few posts started – a post of improved words, like “Slackadaisical” instead of “Lackadaisical.” For another post, I’ve been mulling over the idea that culture would come to a standstill if we cured mental illness – the implication that some people have to suffer through personally debilitating conditions in order for the culture as a whole to advance in any interesting ways. I have also started compiling a list of funny headlines about Rick Santorum. Here’s what I have so far on that front:

Is the internet definition of Santorum subconsciously affecting news editors? Take a look at these actual headlines:

• Santorum Surges (just about every news source leading up to the Iowa caucus)
• Santorum unloads on the stump  (Washington Post)
• Santorum Runs Hard and Long (Demoines Register)

A Daisybrain Retrospective

Congratulations! You’ve dropped by in time for our annual Retrospective*, in which I cull some of the best bits of Daisybrain from previous posts & present them as a list of easy-to-digest, bite-sized chunks of disjointed verbiage. Let the self-indulgant avoidance of creativity begin!

1. Making Fun of Politicians’ Names!

• Is Sarah Palin a secret Muslim? Why else would the letters of her name rearrange to spell Sharia Plan??? Quick – somebody tell the Tea Partiers! READ FULL POST
• Trumpelstiltskin: An evil imp who commands much attention until he is called out for his lies and falls deep into a media chasm, never to be heard from again. READ FULL POST
• A lot has been made of the internet joke by which presidential candidate Rick Santorum‘s last name has been defined as a repugnant substance involving discharge from the hinder regions. I thought that this was unfair to Mr. Santorum, so I decided to write a note to Rick expressing my condolences. I figured that he wouldn’t mind if I started the note by rearranging the letters in “Santorum” to spell To Mr. Anus. Of course, I then had to express further condolences for the fact that his name spells “To Mr. Anus,” which must be upsetting in light of the internet definition of his name. I’m sure that after the election his ass will be quickly forgotten. READ FULL POST

Curious Thoughts and Observations

• Consider the difference a comma can make:

The classic Christmas song, “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,”

vs. the cannibal song, “Chest, nuts, roasting on an open fire.”

More Home-a-Phones!

• “Home: a phone,” a homophone for homophone, is something a person very fond of their cell phone might be thinking. She or he might prefer that identification to “cell phone,” which could be confused with, “sell phone,” which you would never want to do if you thought of your phone as your home.
• Tofu, a white block of fermented soybeans, would be much less exciting to watch than “toe-fu,” a form of Kung-fu performed with toes.

Suggestions for People Who Make Things

Daisybrain Presents:

Suggestions for People Who Make Things

Bathroom Sink & Faucet Makers:

Eliminate that annoyingly hard to clean gap between the back of the faucet and the wall behind the sink

Homophonia! or, How You Spell Things Matters!

Consider the differences in meaning between these phrases that sound the same but are spelled differently:

• “You’re in danger!” vs. “Urine danger!” Of course, maybe you’re in danger because of urine danger, I don’t know.
• “Scientists have discovered rings around Uranus,” vs., well, you can guess that one.

Droning on About Drones

Skippable, glib introductory paragraph:

I finally removed my name from the Obama campaign email list. It took a few tries, which was fine with me because it gave me several chances to fill in the box about why I wanted to be removed from their mailing list. I explained that much as I respect and, in broad terms, support the President, his policy of killing people by remote control drone aircraft is so abhorrent to me that I found it difficult to maintain enthusiasm for his re-election.