Kinnearing anyone? (Day 2)

Good…late afternoon, early evening. What do you call 7:30? That’s what they should be teaching us at school, instead of time zones, time units. They could at least be kind enough to put it at the back of those notebooks, you know the ones I mean, with the map of the United States, how to use punctuation, the conversions of different distance measuring units. I think that will be the next thing I shall crusade for, time units. I find it more lucrative than dividing fractions, I mean come on. Flip and multiply, who are they kidding?

Today has been quite beneficial, in my world anyway.
• I’m more than half way through ‘We Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow we will be Killed with our Families,’ the book that is as good as it’s title is long. (It truly is)
• I finished my box of Golden Grams
• I have successfully procrastinated on my English speech outline, math homework, history quiz studying, Spanish quiz studying, Spanish brochure on Uruguay, and finding information on the Precambrian period for my biology presentation. (this weekend’s going to be exciting)
• Got my EARTH DAY t-shirt from Mr. Canfield
• Got some answers correct in knowledge bowl
• Successfully avoided paying attention in Health
• And conjugated many a new verb tenses on the board in Spanish

All in all, a perfectly normal day.

This morning on the bus, however, I got to thinking.
I hate the acronym TLC. Why? It is completely unnecessary. When do people actually say Tender Love and Care. I mean, if you’re going to say it, say it
Don’t abbreviate it.

This proves the point that I spend WAY too much time on the bus.

But amongst all this thinking in the smelly, loud, annoying transportation I use to get to school, I decided that everyday I would either pick, or make up an acronym I like.

And today I have chosen: BATMAN: Buying A Toupee Makes Anyone Nervous

Now the obvious choice would have been to go with BEDA, VEDA, or DFTBA (since many of us are nerdfighters) but I find this to be cheating because A. I’m doing BEDA right now, and B. my class ring already had DFTBA across the side, so I have talked and explained that one to enough people (pretty much everyone I know)

So I have spoken, and the verdict was in favor of those who, like batman, were unsure about their new phase of life and had great obstacles to overcome.

Graham Norton anyone?

It’s no secret that I do enjoy the BBC quite a lot, be it an informative program, a sitcom (loves me some Coupling), or just the Catherine Tate Show. (please don’t ask why, I don’t quite understand myself other than “I’m not bovvered!”)

Lately I have been watching the Graham Norton show as well, and it is HILARIOUS. I never thought it would be, but it is so great. I recommend it to anyone. We went from taping large amounts of audience members together and sending them to the bathroom to talking to a German Knitting Nanny about the socks they had bought off the web page for his guests. Before talking to her, of course, we played ‘Guess the German Knitting Nanny’ which was a pleasure in itself. Long story short, my DVR has a new buddy to be spending Saturday nights with (or maybe it’s Friday, I’m not quite sure)

And who doesn’t love a good British accent, I can’t think of anyone.

Anyway, through this new infatuation I learned a new word, kinnearing. Many of you do this already; you just don’t know what to call it.

A definition:


1. kinnear
1) To take a picture of someone/something without looking through the viewfinder; usually done on the sly.

2) To secretly take a photo of the unsuspecting in a sneaky manner.

3) A method of photography developed by the Yarn Harlot
ex. I saw this woman wearing the worlds worst sweater, so I decided to kinnear her to show my friends.


2. kinnear
To surreptitiously photograph a celebrity or person of interest because you are too nervous or respectful of their privacy to ask for a photo

Ex.2. I saw Tiger Woods at the airport and I knew you wouldn't believe me so I kinneared him for photographic proof.


So now, when you’re walking around, snapping random photos, or stalking your favorite youtube celebrity you have the proper word to use/ put in the police report.

And you just sound cool saying it…