The List

Like many bloggers I have an on-the-go list to record potential post ideas for future use. I’m not convinced that this adds anything to the quality of what I spew out here, but it does sometimes give me something to write about when otherwise my mind is blank.

Here’s a small extract from my list that hints at what you lucky people might be reading here at All That Comes With It over the next few weeks. Warning, contains spoilers:

  • Hate having to pay for ketchup
  • Pictures of muddy boots
  • Dinner vs Lunch

Pretty thrilling stuff eh? Perhaps this blog should come with caveat that it shouldn’t be read by pregnant women and people with heart conditions.

But this list doesn’t always steer me right however. I was flicking through it this evening trying to figure out if I had the energy to post when I noticed a couple of entries I made after waking up at 3am this morning.

  • New word: Tonither
  • Play on words on Obi-Wan Kenobi: Oh bee? One ken no bee! – work out joke with this as punchline.

It seems that 3am is not my most creative time of the day. Or my most lucid.

Still, after contemplating them for a while I was able to add another idea to my list:

  • Lazy post about crap post ideas

Job done.

Related posts:

  1. Next on the list is “Confabulate”
  2. There’s logic in there somewhere
  3. Thomas Crapper has a lot to answer for
  4. Indiana Jones Five?
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34 Responses to The List

  1. Actually, I have fairly strong views on the whole lunch/dunner issue being a native Northerner who moved South for 12 years and is currently back in the North. It’s a minefield, I tell ya…
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  2. A-ha! Oldest blogging trick in the book. Write a post about how you don’t know what to write about… I do it quite frequently.

    Will look forward to the Obi-Wan joke (you know you’re committed to that one now right?)
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  3. You stole my (scraps of paper with scribble on) pending list dude.
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  4. Mwa says:

    Very funny! And exactly what I do, too.
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    • Dan says:

      @Mwa, even the 3am stuff? I’m pretty sure that’s how all surrealist artists first started: by blearily jotting down ideas in the middle of the night

  5. JJ Daddy-O says:

    I have so much crap in my “drafts” folder on Blogger, it ain’t even funny….

  6. Martin says:

    I have a few pre-pregnancy drafts just sitting there. Maybe next time around.
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  7. I wish I had a list! Mine are usually spur of the moment ramblings, which probably explains alot….
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  8. Seattledad says:

    Crappy comment.

    Check.
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  9. MrsW says:

    I have a draft post and all it says is “Loud sweary baby horse in the morning me”

    Buggered if I know what it’s meant to prompt me to write.

    I might have to make something up… it’s sitting there all smug just daring me to.
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  10. Darren says:

    I’m wondering how to pronounce “tonither.” Does it start like “tonight?”
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    • Dan says:

      @Darren, I think I intended it to be a fusion of “together” and “neither”. I remember seriously thinking it was a great idea for a post.

      In the cold light of day I think I was probably wrong.

  11. Rol says:

    Ah, the curse of the 3am idea. I have them so often, and they always seem like genius… until you read them again the next morning.
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    • Dan says:

      @Rol, I wouldn’t mind if it wasn’t such a disapointmetn that you haven’t come up with next blockbuster movie idea after all.

  12. Gary says:

    I wouldn’t bother doing a post on the dinner/lunch argument.

    Its dinner.

    Everyone else is wrong.
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  13. Gary says:

    PS,

    I thought of a fantastic idea for a post when being driven in my brothers car yesterday, we extrapolated it at length during our journey and it was very funny.

    Can I remember what it was now ?

    Can I heck-as-like
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  14. A post about ketchup? I can’t wait. Seriously. Ketchup just happens to be one of those things in life that deserves all the attention it can get. And HP Brown Sauce obviously.
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  15. Absolutely brilliant and hilariously funny!
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  16. Jeff says:

    Bravo… thrilling stuff. I too have woken up at 3 a.m. thinking I was more clever than I actually am.
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