{"id":831,"date":"2008-08-18T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/18\/2008-8-18-nosy-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:28","slug":"2008-8-18-nosy-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/2008-8-18-nosy-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Nosy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been enjoying this cold\/sinus\/upper respiratory thing I&#8217;ve been fighting over the last week or so, but it&#8217;s made me painfully aware of noses lately. For instance, I would&#8217;ve thought that a giant nose would be bad for a swimmer. What with the greater potential for drowning and whatnot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/images\/blog\/wysiwyg\/image\/michaelphelps.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/images\/blog\/wysiwyg\/image\/michaelphelps.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shhh.\" \/><\/a><br \/>That seems to not be the case.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the new commercial for the latest version of the Acura MDX&mdash;a profoundly ugly car by any measure, but that proboscis. Yikes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmunds.com\/media\/roadtests\/firstdrive\/2007\/acura.mdx\/07.acura.mdx.lead.340.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edmunds.com\/media\/roadtests\/firstdrive\/2007\/acura.mdx\/07.acura.mdx.lead.340.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Only a mother could love...\" \/><\/a><br \/>But somebody at the ad agency understands that selling something this hideous is going to be tough. Really tough&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Yo2PnzAay4Q&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>This had to be intentional. Can you guess who&#8217;s singing? I&#8217;ll give you a big hint&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperialclub.com\/Movies\/Mad\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/MadSmall.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"That fella must be a madman!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I haven&#8217;t been enjoying this cold\/sinus\/upper respiratory thing I&#8217;ve been fighting over the last week or so, but it&#8217;s made me painfully aware of noses lately. For instance, I would&#8217;ve thought that a giant nose would be bad for a swimmer. What with the greater potential for drowning and whatnot&#8230; That seems to not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/2008-8-18-nosy-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nosy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-punditry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}