Uniform, name meanings, violent pornography, giant bananas and Richard Nixon

Well, it's a beautiful Tuesday afternoon here (which it shouldn't be, due to it being early January), and the world is good. Also, I've created a layout for each blog post, which I shall add into this blog.


First up is the Topic of the Day.

My school has a uniform policy. Blazer, tie, and a permanently tucked-in shirt are mandatory to be enrolled, though very few people actually stick to it. In fact, only a small number of the teachers are incredibly strict about wearing the blazer or tucking in the shirt (not counting the vice-principals), but most notice if you don't have a tie. I, however, decided to test the watchful eye of these academic figures by replacing my usual navy-blue tie with a bright red straw for an entire day. Oddly enough, despite the obvious neon-bright colour of the straw, none of my teachers (even the most watchful) appeared to notice a thing, and if they did, then they never said a word about it. One has to wonder if the uniform is as strictly kept as it is supposed to be.

Now, people have asked me regularly and repeatedly about where I got the word "Gimboid", and why I insist upon calling myself and everything I do by that name. Now, the truth about this topic is that I created the word from my imagination, and later refined it's meaning after finding it's validity in an episode of the television show Red Dwarf. The word itself is a synonym for "idiot", however, it is rarely used, allowing me to take over the word and make it into my own. Thus Gimboid Productions and The Gimboid was born!


Secondly, there is the Peculiar News, the section where I state the crazy things that happen in the world each day.

So, today in the news, a former high school basketball coach is facing 39 charges for hitting male students in the groin, showing them pornography and pouring water on his players then driving them to games in the winter with the windows rolled down. You have to ask the question, what was he hoping to achieve with the last adventure that makes it so illegal?

Also, A Montreal artist, Cesar Saez, intends to send a 985 foot long helium filled banana made of bamboo and synthetic paper over Mexico and Texas. He is going to release the $1,000,000 balloon late next year where it will drift in a low orbit some 12 to 18 miles for about a month until it disintegrates. When asked why he wanted to undertake the project, he responded: "Why? Because it's possible. Why not a banana over Texas?"


Next, we have the segment of what happened On this day in history!

1793 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly a balloon in the United States
1905 - Russian workers storm the Winter Palace, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905
1913 - Richard Nixon was born
1995 - Valeri Poliakov spent 366 days in orbit upon the Mir space station, breaking a record

Also, it's Official Balloon Ascension day, and Severus Snape's Birthday


And Fifthly (if that's even a word) is the Commentary on the Weather

Now, since I live in Canada, this is on the Canadian weather, so here we go!
The temperature was colder than recently today, though still much warmer than usual for this time of year. In other weather, it was still just as sunny as it has been for the past few days, with very few clouds in the sky, though by evening a large cluster were gathering on the horizon. Tomorrow looks as if it will be dry, but possibly warmer due to the cloud cover keeping the warmth inside the atmosphere overnight.


Almost finally the Review of the Week, which may be changed to a different day once I get organized

Being the first review, I will do something simple, today being the Night at the Museum.
While the laughs from this film were abundent, the lack of an original plot was not appealing. A distinct lack of sympathy for the main character makes the movie lose it's touch, though the constant cameos by great actors and an interesting location did make me like it slightly more.

All in all, a 3/5


And lastly, the Interesting Fact of the day - 37 people have been killed by vending machines

Well, signing off 'til tomorrow
The Gimboid

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