I want to blog

To that any normal person would say, "Well, you already are!?" Yes, I know, but I have absolutely nothing to talk about today yet I feel like writing a blog post. I went on a religious blog posting kick and scheduled them to be posted over the next couple of days. I didn't want my readers (all one of you) to be too overloaded with religious stuff. So on to some very "train of thought" blogging. It could be scary.

I have decided that my most favorite punctuation mark is the "?!" or "!?", respectively called the interrobang or the banginterro, at least according to my dad. I have no idea if it is actually right. While I am guilty of over-using both (along with parenthesis), I have just taken my father's word on them for a significant number of years. Then again, he was also the one that once convinced me that Chopin was pronounced "Chop-In" instead of "Show-pan". It was only years later that I realized I had looked utterly stupid to my grade school teacher when I argued that fact in class. He never did apologize for that mis-truth. He though he was funny and really never did any harm.

However, I always wonder about that day when my youngest brother was adamantly defending the fact that his ears did not have lobes. We would gang up on him and telling that "Oh my goodness, your ears have lobes!" To which he would reply very upset that, "My ears don't have lobes! Quit teasing me!" Did I mention he was blond. Still is most of the time. We were able to run that on for days until my mother finally had pity on her youngest child and told him what ear lobes were.

So I decided to look up exactly what an interrobang was and found a rather thorough definition here. It turns out my dad was mostly correct, except about the banginterro part, no such thing. (Again with the excruciating delayed embarrassment.) Here's a picture of an official interrobang, however most people just type it "?!" or "?!?!?!?!?!":