an idle mind is (fill in the blank)

[wingblossom]

Who decided that curacao should be colored blue? I know that it was done to give it an "exotic" appearance, but there's still a certain disconnect for a liqueur made from the bitter peel of oranges. Why couldn't it be violet? Or indigo? Or bright green and speckled gold? There are so many options!

Also, I was talking to another intern today, and he told me a "simple way" to lengthen a report by about one page-and-a-half longer. How? By changing every period to size fourteen in a size twelve font paper. Is this a genius trick, or just sheer laziness?

Yes, work is slow today.

Comments

[cyanwitch]

You know, I'm not sure whether it's laziness, per se, considering that it must be time-consuming (at least moderately) to change all of those periods... but I'm not quite sure that I'd call it genius, either. XD Perhaps useful to know in the event of catastrophic lack of inspiration.

Also... Maybe blue was their favorite color? Or maybe it was to evoke the association of the ocean, and thus beaches and all the happy (for most people, at least) connotations therein?

[wingblossom]

But all you have to do is hit Ctrl+H! Find and Replace is less time-consuming than it looks. Seriously, though, if you really need to rely on that trick v. often, I think there are probably bigger problems with your thesis than the length of the paper.

AND, HEY. STOP MAKING SO MUCH SENSE. YOU'RE RUINING MY THEORIES.