Open invitation to join GBE 2 Blog On - FB Blogging Group






Open invitation to join GBE 2 Blog On. - FB blogging group

Guest post: Open invitation to join GBE 2 Blog on. Facebook blogging group:

NEW MEMBERS, PLEASE START HERE :O)

First of all, welcome!

Blogging GBE style is simple. Every Sunday evening, I’ll post the week’s (VERY general) topic on the GBE page. You can then interpret the topic any way you want and blog about it in any way you see fit. Once you’ve posted to wherever you normally blog, drop the url to your post as a comment into the weekly topic thread so that other members can read/comment. Blogs should be posted by the end of the following Saturday night.

NOTE: Please leave only the url for your week’s post on the weekly topic posting so that the thread remains free of extra stuff, making it easy for everyone to work their way down the list without having to sort through anything extra. Everyone is welcome to post anything they’d like on the GBE page, just not on that one weekly post.

Optional: If you’d like, you can also add the url to your post to the linky tool on my weekly topic announcement blog (I announce the weekly topics on my blog, too, so that non-facebookers can participate) right here: http://www.word-nerd-speaks.com/

For those of you who use Twitter, the hashtag for the group's posts is #GBE2, and we can increase readership if we all tweet early and tweet often. ;O)

One thing: This is for fun, and it should NEVER feel like work. So if you join in, feel free to skip a topic (or 10) and read/comment as much or as little as you want. NO PRESSURE.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_209032889129479

That’s it!

Happy blogging!

Beth

(Elizabeth Grace, Group Leader)
 
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The group is looking for an alternative blogging site. I have been with BE for two and a half years and enjoyed the friendship of the bloggers there.

Splogging is a curse when the Admins dont do their work.

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The Ear to the Ground series returns: "Flash in the Pan".

The original flash in the pan occurred in the flintlock gun. This was the old, unwieldy kind of musket used before the development of the percussion cap or cartridge. The charge that propelled the bullets, in those early days, was in the form of loose gunpowder, which was carefully measured and placed in the pan or flashpan of the gun, where it was ignited(or, all too often, failed to ignite) by a spark from the flint. Ifthe gunpowder was damp or in sufficient, it might fizzle flash rather than explode effectively.

The three related phrases are to hang fire, a damp squid, and lock, stock and barrel.

To hang fire is to delay, to put off one's decision, to wait and see. Originally, a flintlock gun was said to hang fire if it took a long time for the charge to ignite.

A damp squid, something that fails to live up to expectations, is, literally, a firecracker that hisses promisingly but through being damp fails to generate the climatic bang.

As for lock, stock and barrel, these are the three components of a musket or rifle: the barrel out in front, the stock - the heavy wooden handle or support - at the rear, and the lock - themechanism designed to explode the ammunition charge - in the middle. So to buy up a business lock, stock and barrel, for instance, has come to mean to buy the whole thing. Or as Australians would say, the whole kit and caboodle.



Hoped you liked this week's contribution.

RD

Blogevolve is really a great little community blogsite...

Blogevolve is really a great little community blogsite - take my word for it!

They are friendly, informative, supportive, helpful and make some great comments at times. There are some interesting posts written at Blogevolve.

There are a number of talented and experienced writers there who are prepared to offer advice and refer you on to some useful sites that can offer writing advice, support and how to make some spending money.

Why don't you go and visit some time?


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