Your Blog Is Awesome and I Am A Shameless Whore – The Risky Second Series

Hello all, I am back again with another 3 quest posts on three incredibly awesome sites.

Having just re-read them to make sure they actually made some vague sense before shamelessly linking back to them in a wonderfully sneaky way of avoiding writing a post for Saturday I realised that at least two of the posts have distinctly less humour in them then usual. I must have been having a very deep thinking few weeks but don’t worry they are still definitely worth reading.

However, in light of the lack of humour before I plug them shamelessly below I will include two jokes to make up the humour deficit as is customary on this blog. (There’s an animal theme)

A guy is sitting at home when he hears a knock at the door. He opens the door and sees a snail on the porch. He picks up the snail and throws it as far as he can. Three years later, there’s a knock on the door. He opens it and sees the same snail. The snail says “What the hell was that all about?”

A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “That’s the ugliest baby that I’ve ever seen. Ugh!” The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “The driver just insulted me!”

The man says: “You go right up there and tell him off – go ahead, I’ll hold your monkey for you.”

Now on to the guest posts in order of comments as opposed to number of cups of coffee I drank while writing them.

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Why Do You Fear To Be Great, You Yellowed Bellied Coward?

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Marc Pachter, who has interviewed some of the most intriguing characters in recent American history, makes the point that modest people make the worst interviewees. He argues that people need to think they have done something with their lives, and have a story worth telling, or no amount of clever word play is going to be worth two hours of any audience’s time.

Have you DONE something with your life? Do you have a STORY worth telling?

Are you GOING to do something with your life? Will you HAVE a story worth telling?

Read on if you think you might.

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Why You Should Make Your Life Remarkable

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“Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memories or anything of significant. Most days have no impact on the course of a person’s life.”

That’s the final quote from the “[500] Days of Summer” movie. Yes, it’s a chick flick; yes, I watched it… (It was a long flight to Dohar and I was bored. Honest.), and I have to say that yes, I actually thought it was pretty good. I realize that this now probably loses me a few masculinity points in most people’s eyes but don’t worry, I’m currently sporting a rather fetching and particularly rugged manly mustache and so can afford to lose a few.

Read on to find out if your are Indian Jones or Mr Jones from the bank, James Bond or his admin assistant.

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Dynamite Interviews

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Actually this isn’t a post as such but an interview, however Steven over at Human Explosion has made me into a stick figure which is awesome. If you don’t wan’t to be bored to death by someone interviewing me then there are also some other awesome people that are definitely worth checking out.

Read on