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Resting for Autumn. Sullivans Cove, May 2010.

Once again, an anti-Antipodean decree has confirmed those of us down here at the arse-end of the world second nay, eighth-class citizens!

To “celebrate” the one-hundredth posting of the Theme Thursday meme, the Theme Thursday junta have offered the diktat that the topic for the Theme will only appear on Thursday, at 6:00 a.m. Eastern United States Time.

For those in the know, 6 am eating bagels in New York means 8 pm in Hobart bathing children! Given that I have established an 8:30 am/8 pm dynamic of general shot/Henry and Ezra shot, the new format does not really work for me.

Hence, today I share with you my decision to declare throw off the yoke of Yankee imperialism and declare my independence!

Yes people, today I choose my own destiny through selecting my own Theme Thursday topic. Today I have a doozy: POTAMOPHILOUS.

Yes, I very much fit the profile of a POTAMOPHILOUS-type, as all of you will no doubt already know by the sheer amount of photographs that would appeal to the POTAMOPHILOUS among you.

My hope is that other disgruntled members of the Theme Thursday community who also share POTAMOPHILOUS tendencies will similarly liberate themselves from the state of intellectual bondage that they remain trapped in and join me in my celebration of the brave new Theme Thursday by dropping them word POTAMOPHILOUS in blog postings, comments pages, letters to the editor, death notices and so on.

I thank you in advance...
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Roy said…
Kris, you missed the point of the change. They only announce the theme on Thursday at 6 Eastern Time; you actually have a whole week to come up with a relevant post.
16 September 2010 at 08:52
Kris McCracken said…
I got that, only then it is not Theme Thursday any more. It's Theme Something Else Entirely. It complicates my schedule rather than eases it.

That’s cool though, and don’t forget I mainly post with my tongue firmly in my cheek! :)
16 September 2010 at 09:03
Julie said…
My particular potamophilus relationship is with the Parramatta River!

I have thrown off the yoke also ... and am not reassured by the protestation that we are being given more time. Attention spans are not that elastic.
16 September 2010 at 10:51
Kris McCracken said…
Julie, the life of a revolutionary is a hard one!
16 September 2010 at 18:12
Roddy said…
Do you reckon Gollum may have been potamophilous?
16 September 2010 at 20:25
Betsy Brock said…
Oh, I'm sorry...I don't like the change either. Now...how DO you pronounce that word??? haha
16 September 2010 at 22:56
Betsy Brock said…
I'd like to know WHY we had to have the change. Was it really necessary? Wish we could have voted. Enjoy bath time with the kiddos...
16 September 2010 at 22:57
Tom said…
ha, you're a rebel.
17 September 2010 at 05:51
Kris McCracken said…
Roddy, huh?

Betsy, change is always hard!

Tom, only this time, I have a cause!
17 September 2010 at 15:27
Roddy said…
Potamophilous:love of rivers!
17 September 2010 at 16:16
Kris McCracken said…
Roddy, it took you that long?
17 September 2010 at 18:17
JeffScape said…
I dunno. I like it much better than the "Theme Sunday" setup from before.
18 September 2010 at 08:16
Kris McCracken said…
We should call it "Theme Friday".
18 September 2010 at 10:42
Betsy Brock said…
OK...I think I've got it now...it kinda rhymes with hippopotamus, right? LOL!
19 September 2010 at 10:20
lettuce said…
i too would welcome a reveal of the theme last thing Weds (for those behind us. chronologically speaking...)

I also welcome the word "potamophilous"
19 September 2010 at 19:23
Linda Bob Grifins Korbetis Hall said…
beautiful and inspirational.
love your take!
19 September 2010 at 23:47
Nanc Twop said…
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POTAMOPHILOUS ?

So this is where we come to discuss the philosphy of potatoes that appear in the shape of hippopotamuses? (hippopotomi?)

Nice.

;-D
...
20 September 2010 at 01:39
Kris McCracken said…
Betsy, one assumes that. ;)

Lettuce, we are as one.

Jingle, hurrah!

Nanc Twop, perhaps…
20 September 2010 at 09:59
Megan said…
Although right about now all I feel like doing is deleting the damn blog entirely...
20 September 2010 at 11:26
Kris McCracken said…
Megan, I feel like that a lot of the time too.
20 September 2010 at 11:28
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