Bernie's still traveling

Now Bernie's at the Space House, halfway up Signal Mountain, north of Chattanooga, Tennessee.  Very cool, Bernie.

My latest mask purchases, two for friends, two for me.

Specifically, a kangaroo word is a word that contains its own synonym, like a kangaroo carries its young in a pouch, with the letters to spell that synonym already placed in the correct order.  And to make this even more fun, the shorter synonyms that are contained inside of a kangaroo word are called joey words, like a baby kangaroo.  

container > can

contaminate > taint

myself > me

observe > see

perambulate > amble

rambunctious > raucous

recline > lie

separate > part

Can you think of any other kangaroo words?

Where's Bernie? ~ meme madness

If you can't find Bernie in this picture, don't despair.  I quickly found Waldo, but Bernie had been blended in a bit too well, in my humble opinion.  It felt like forever before I found Bernie, but I finally did.

I hunted down this original Where's Waldo version, without Bernie.  Maybe it will help you, or at least confirm your find.  Click on the pictures to enlarge them.

A word jumble and a meme ~ do you see it now?

Word Jumble

Can you read what that says?  I read it easily, which surprised me.  I would really like to know how many of you could also read it.  Now let me tell you the kicker:  I even noticed that one of the words is misspelled.  Yes, it is, really.  I tripped over it.

You just read those two jumbled sentences over again, didn't you?  Did you spot the misspelled word?  It's the fourth word.  But we knew what that word was supposed to be, didn't we?

So what was the problem?  The last letter of that word should have been an R, not an H.  It has an extra CH instead of ER, as it should.  Bananagrams letters helped me with this visual to show you why my mind stumbled.

I've posted about this painting a couple of other times — first in August and then in December.  Can you find what makes this a 2021 meme?

Word of the Day

meme / mēm / noun = a humorous image, video, or piece of text, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations.  Example:  "The photo above is a meme about Bernie Sanders at Biden's inauguration."  It is my favorite of the many I've seen.  Did you find him?

This Bernie meme is the favorite of one of my friends, and another friend calls it "hanging with Bernie."  I also like that a friend in Chattanooga called the one below "a sit-in."