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Monday, August 24, 2009

The Queen's Meme #7 ~ Mutiny! Mutiny! Mutiny!

So I challenged my royal memers to a little swim in the ocean. The Queen's Meme # 7 is the Message In a Bottle Meme. Oh....the excuses I've heard thus far.
1. "I'm having technical difficulties."
2. "This is nuts!"
3. "I don't have a graphics program."
4. "What is a graphics program?"
5. "I hate the Queen."

I just have one thing to say to you, my little royal memers above and anyone else who dares cross me today:

Go straight to the dungeon.

Do not pass Go.

Do not collect $200

I'll be back in a moment with more late-breaking peace globe news.
I have jet lag and I am none too happy.
I'd better see some bottles floating in the bloggy ocean when I return.
Did you hear that Vinny? Did you organize this revolt? Glitterbaby? Dawn? (well, she did survive a hurricane, so I think she has an excuse), THOM??? Are you bailing too? Chicken....just sayin.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Splashing In The Ocean

I threw a bottle in the bloggy ocean today.
This quote, by Thomas Lynch, has been on my mind lately.
Do you have something to say? Visit my site called
Message In A Bottle and toss a line to the Universe - sign your name or do it anonymously. Click below.

Have a wonderful weekend, my friends.
(P.S. I'll be back to deal with Homer and his shenanigans later....)

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Sunday Blog Chatter ~ Let's All Go To The Beach

They keep washing up on my blog beach. I toss them back into the vast bloggy ocean. They wash ashore on the other side of the blogosphere. I toss them back.
I love their wisdom. The latest one, from South Moravia, Czech Republic and Message Bottle #271 reads like this: It is from Namnet's Philosophizing Playground using the first lines of a poem by Elisabeth Barrett Browning.

Do you want to toss a bottle into the blog ocean today? You can even send anonymous messages. My site is called Message In A Bottle and 271 bloggers have done just that. Go HERE for details and to read the other messages.

In a nutshell, here's how to do it:

Compose a message to place in your virtual bottle
Right click and Save the graphic above
Use a graphics program of your choice to place the message on the picture
Return your anonymous "Message In a Bottle" to me via email ~ sendmessageinabottle at yahoo.com
Your virtual bottle will remain afloat in the Blogosphere Ocean for all blogernity.

You may post the virtual bottle on your own website as long as a direct link is placed back to this blog. The graphic may not be altered. Your submission will be numbered and dated. Send in as many as you'd like. If you choose to remain anonymous, no identifying information will EVER be disclosed to anyone.

You can also choose NOT to be anonymous in which case I will post the name and url of your website.

Violent, profane, hate-filled, sexually explicit message bottles or otherwise inappropriate submissions, as deemed by the blog owner, will not be posted.

I need to feel the sand between my toes. Wanna come?
Here's another one to inspire you. It was sent by Tangled Up In Twyla in Nova Scotia. I love it.

Have a wonderful Sunday!
I'll see you tomorrow for Monday Mimisms.

Copyright © 2008 Mimi Lenox. All Rights Reserved.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Sunday Blog Chatter: Wisdom In The Waves

Mary The Teach, a college teacher of literature in New York, authors a blog called Work Of The Poet. Today she tossed her third bottle into the Blogosphere Ocean and I thought it was superb. I'm secretly glad Mary doesn't teach Geography or I might have to 'splain where that ocean is....exactly. Ahem. As it is I'm always worrying about commas, incessant and annoying parentheses (because I have sidebar conversations with myself all the time) and my overactive ellipsis..... when she comes to call. See? I think I should have placed at least one comma in the previous sentence and left out the ellipsis. It was a sentence..... wasn't it?

Behold Bottle #243. Mary The Teach spaketh thusly. Pay attention.

In addition to spinning beautiful bottle messages, she quotes Rushdie, supports Obama and Matt-Man for President, and generally keeps our brains ticking along with insightful quotes and posts. I particularly liked 13 Things I Want To Tell Pope Benedict XVI When He Visits America. I hope she's granted an audience soon. On second thought, based on the wisdom found at Mary's place, maybe SHE should run for President.
But until then I'll be content to sit in her classroom. And learn. (I know that wasn't a complete sentence!)
Bottle#230 belongs to The Old Sarge who left a note for his beloved.

Sigh.

Of course she went right over and said "I love you too" and then there was some discussion about a cake and a cruise ship -which I'm sure is privy to only the two of them . So I won't ask. These two should have their own blog comedy show. They could teach us a thing or two about commitment as well.... and how love manages to bloom in the deep dark ocean. It has graced their lives for over 40 years. There are now 247 messages at my Message In A Bottle site but none half as sweet as when these chase each other around the blogosphere.

Of course, you can say what you want to but we all know that as much as Sarge loves Empress Bee it's pretty much about his attempt to stay out of the dungeons of Bloggingham Palace since he did admit to googling Bowing and Curseying to prepare for his swim in the annointed waters where royalty prevails and run-on sentences, well, run.

I don't think even Mary The Teach can fix that sentence. Do you think she noticed? Swimming right along....until....

I stepped on a nest of fishing nets full of holy sweet fudge somehow on the floor of the ocean, way down deep in the water of Bloggingham's sea and tangled myself up with a girl named Twyla from Nova Scotia who tossed in Bottle #241.

She had just one lovely and profound thing to say.

I'm going back for another swim to see what I can find.

These waters are deep. And full of wisdom.

What posted on Mimi Writes one year ago? Peace Bloggers Finnegan and Buddy

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Mimi's Message In a Bottle Meme: Round TWO

Somewhere in a faraway bloggiverse, on an island with a palm tree swaying in the breeze, a message bottle sits side by side with a Pina Colada and a cute little striped umbrella horizontally tilted in the beachy sand. Did YOUR bottle make it to land? Have you checked lately?
There are now 226 bottles floating in the blog ocean just waiting to be mysteriously delivered to a tropical island near you. Now let's add to the fun with Round Two. If you've already participated in this meme, feel free to toss another bottle in the ocean this time as well. The more the merrier.
Click here to see Round One of this meme and the official Message In a Bottle Site. It's time to tag a host of new bloggers to play Message In a Bottle. As always, participation is optional and you do not have to be tagged to play. Check back often to copy the updated lists below for maximum link love. Just remember: I have a dungeon for meme-dodgers.....Have fun! Tag one, tag all!

**Start Copy Here**
Here are the rules: You are about to send a virtual Message In a Bottle across the Blog Ocean. Leave a message in the sand or on the bottle. Write anything you wish. Be a pirate or a poet. Serious or silly. Anonymous or not.

What message would you like to send out to the universe?

Message In A Bottle Meme

1. Compose a message to place in your virtual bottle
2. Right click and Save the graphic below
3. Use a graphics program of your choice to place the message on the picture
4. Post the meme and these rules on your blog
5. Return your "Message In a Bottle" to me via email ~ mimiwrites2005 at yahoo.com, sign the Mr. Linky below and leave a comment HERE telling me you've finished. IF YOU WANT YOUR MESSAGE TO BE ANONYMOUS PLEASE SAY SO.
6. Tag a minimum of five people - or your entire blogroll - to do the same. Notify them of the tag.

Your virtual bottle will remain afloat in the blogosphere ocean for all blogernity (That's a Mimism for blog + eternity.) I will add it to the master list of message bottles when you let me know you've completed the meme.
NOTE: A very kind lady name Phyl sent this message to me."Mimi...I would like to offer to put messages in bottles for people who cannot do it themselves.If you like, post a link to my MIAB post and tell them to leave a comment with the message they want...and an email that I can send it to.Hugs..."Thanks, Scrappy 'n Happy in Ohio! Contact her HERE.

I, Mimi Queen of Memes, royally tag the following bloggers: