Royal Baby and Grammar

Like you might have heard, the Duchess of Cambridge Catherine Middleton gave birth to a boy today.

 

Now on to the grammar.
When announcing a baby's gender, people tend to say "It's a boy!" or "It's a girl!" Why refer to the baby as "it" when revealing the gender? Connor, a Why Not guest author at some point in time, claims it's to save the surprise for the end of the sentence. That's somewhat logical, but it seems like an overkill. Come on, the sentence is only three words long! Besides, chances are there will be some color or picture clue to reveal the gender accompanying the text.
 A less plausible explanation is that it takes less ink to print "It's a girl!" than "She's a girl!", thus making it cheaper for the printer people. Because of all the people who are hell-bent on complete gender equality, the printer people decided to apply it to boy birth announcements as well, seeing as it doesn't take any more letters.
Theory number three is that saying something like "He's a boy!" is like circular logic and seems too obvious. However, just saying "Male!" or "Boy!" would be too vague and straightforward. I suppose "It's a boy!" strikes a weird balance between the two.

Abandoned Projects- Poll

Like N mentioned in "Confessions of a blogger," a lot of series have died. I like to consider them abandoned, with the exception of Ask Wendy since Wendy is dead. There's a surprising number of series that were supposed to be long and lovely and whatever. Since I'm now home and seeking to write more, I'd really like to revive some abandoned projects.



Here's a list of abandoned projects started by me:

• Big Ideas - These can be really time consuming, but I have time, at least until school begins.
• "Cure" -Yeah, I'm not too keen on writing more cures for the so called "One Direction Infection"... Not an option because I say so.
• Explore Tab- It's now called "What's Hot" for some reason, and contains less stuff than Explore did.
• How to- Self explanatory title. 
• Think About It- Those are fun but take a while because they involve commentary from GM and me.
• Technology These Days- N and I liked them, but no one else seemed to care.

Which one should I work on?
I put up a poll because we haven't had a poll in months, and also, people seem to vote on polls more often than commenting. Perhaps because it's anonymous? Hmmm... Well, vote!

(I will still post posts that are not part of the chosen series.)

Musical Mondays #16

Okay, okay, it is Tuesday, not Monday. I've been busy lazy.
Here I present you with some amusing music. This post might prove to be a good exercise for those of you who spend a lot of time sitting in swivel chairs in front of computers. If you "seat dance" and/or fall out of your chair when you laugh and have to drag yourself back into the seat, you may just exercise some muscles not in your fingers and eyes! Excellent workout. Maybe I should patent it....


1. Taylor Swift Captions Fail by Rhett and Link

 

2. Ulcerative Colitis by Hank Green

3.  End of the World as we Know It by R.E.M.

And finally,  to possible please or displease N, an Thrift Shop Parody by Elle.

Work in Progress! don't publish...

Don't imitate me!!! I'm kidding... I don't really mind you using that title temporarily, I guess... -RF

RANDOM FACTS #1

There are about 227 calories in the average California avacodo without the skin or seeds.

Source: just ask Google

Confessions of a blogger

i fell guilty about not posting in like a month so i will be starting a new series because a lot of them have died ex. voki wednesdays, ask wendy, ect...

it will be called RANDOM FACTS

Why Not Turns One... Soon-ish

Why Not 2000's first "birthday" is coming up in a little more than two weeks! We should do something to celebrate the blog.

Anyway...
I'm pretty low on ideas on how to celebrate.
Maybe a list of the best/worst posts of the year?
A new design just for the day?
New posts from everyone each day of the week leading up to the birthday?
Virtual cake (that is not a lie)?
All of them?
Bleh?

Since my fellow Why Not team members ignored my request for ideas, it's up to you possibly nonexistent blog readers who are not on the Why Not Team to give me some suggestions.
Help make Why Not 2000's first birthday memorable (preferably in a good way)!

We could try something like this...

An Explanation of GM's Blog Inactivity

 You are probably not wondering why I have not posted for half of the "summer" break. But for future reference, I will still write this post.
For the first four days of "summer", I was kind of out of town. After that, for five days, I was at a college on the top of Lookout Mountain with very sexist dorms and internet, but also no device to access the internet on. After that, for another week, I was kind of out of town again. Then I went to China, where the computers there could not load Blogger. For two days after returning from China, I was too lazy to blog. Also currently, I am trying to recover from the worst return trip from anywhere, but today I decided to ignore the jet lag, insomnia, possibly injured eardrum, and the regret for not bringing the mysterious metal object back to America.
Normal blog activity begins now.

Stupid Statistics

N: I bet you that that statistic is fake, and they cant do math. 83 plus 27 is 110 not 100.

That kind of outlines all one direction fans.

RF: I passionately dislike made up statistics (unless they're meant to be satires, of course). Of course it's fake! How can there be 110% of girls? Still, if "Niall quit 1D today," it's true many girls wouldn't care and wouldn't cry over it. Some of them are infants. Some of them are suffering from deadly diseases. Some of them have damaged tear ducts. Many have never heard of "1D."
And no, this does not count as me reblogging it.

Musical Mondays #15 - Confusing Chorus

I recently attended an event at which the song "Single Ladies" by Beyonce was played. (By played, I mean blasted from speakers at a volume that could potentially lead to the phenomenon of eardrum combustion.)
I was very confused by the lyrics in the chorus.

Here's the chorus:
Cause if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it
If you liked it then you should've put a ring on it
Don't be mad once you see that he want it
If you liked it then you should've put a ring on it

What exactly is this "it"? This pronoun lacks a clear antecedent. I would assume from the context of the song that the "it" is the woman. But one does not really put rings on women, and women are female and should be referred using feminine pronouns...One does, however, put rings on fingers! Ah-ha! But it is not common for people to go around admiring fingers.
Does "it" refer to the woman or the finger? Does the first "it" refer to the woman and the second to a finger? Is it saying that if you like a finger you should put a ring on the finger? Is it saying if you like a woman you should put a ring "on" it/her? Is it saying if you like a woman's finger you should put a ring on the woman? What? What? What?