{"id":1366,"date":"2009-12-08T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:32:59","slug":"list-tuesday-december-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/list-tuesday-december-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"List &#8211; Tuesday December 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/463px-waterscrewperpetualmotion-231x300.png\" alt=\"463px-waterscrewperpetualmotion\" title=\"463px-waterscrewperpetualmotion\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1368\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/463px-waterscrewperpetualmotion-231x300.png 231w, http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/463px-waterscrewperpetualmotion.png 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 85vw, 231px\" \/><strong>10 Reasons Why I&#8217;d like to Invent A Perpetual Motion Machine (In Order of Importance):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>1. It would validate all the times I was late for work and told my boss it was because I was working on my perpetual motion machine. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>2. I could laugh in the face of the second law of thermodynamics&#8217; again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>3. People would stop making fun of me about the time machine thing. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>4. I could get a special business card made with a witty pun about perpetual motion on the back that only other smart people understood (and good looking people).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>5. People would want to come over to my house all the time to check out the perpetual motion machine and I&#8217;d be like, &#8220;Oh gosh sorry, I&#8217;m busy tonight&#8221; then later I&#8217;d be sitting at home bored wishing I would just clean up once in a while so I could have people over instead of having to always say I was busy.  Then I&#8217;d do a load of laundry and vow to make plans with people who wanted to see the machine next time because it&#8217;s good to stay social especially in the winter. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>6. I would have solved the energy crisis. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>7. It would be a good way to prove to my parents that high school science never helped any one in the real world.  I mean look!  That D in Physics did not stop me from inventing the perpetual motion machine. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>8. That drinking bird toy that always shows up in my dreams would be a premonition, not a neurosis.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n9. I wouldn&#8217;t have to keep talking smack about Al Gore because I&#8217;ve had an inferiority complex since he won the Nobel Prize and I haven&#8217;t won anything except my family&#8217;s Thanksgiving Bowling tournament three years ago.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n10. I could throw away the fake perpetual motion machine that now sits in the middle of my apartment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Reasons Why I&#8217;d like to Invent A Perpetual Motion Machine (In Order of Importance): &nbsp; 1. It would validate all the times I was late for work and told my boss it was because I was working on my perpetual motion machine. &nbsp; 2. I could laugh in the face of the second law &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/list-tuesday-december-8th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;List &#8211; Tuesday December 8th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}