Google can be a friend sometimes although it can also be a harsh dispenser of truth.  At work yesterday I was describing a candy someone had at work as tasting like “a stale Hostess Snowball with the ‘fauxconuts’ shaved off”.  While I love most Hostess products, there isn’t much natural about any of their offerings.  The infamous Snowball is a perfect example of that.  The “coconut” topping, even if it is real, is caked with lots o’ unrealness.

So when I gave the description of the candy I had just ingested, taking inspiration from the coined word “fauxhawk”, I came up with “fauxconut”.  But alas, after Googling that term, someone had already beaten me to the punch.  So much for originality; I was not an innovator.

In a world that numbers into the billions, original ideas and phrases are hard to come by.  I had a good “Is it original?” IM conversation a few months ago with a friend who was restarting his own blog.  He found out that the phrase “Fuck You, Internet, Entertain Me” was not yet used, at least in that sentence structure so this is the tagline to his blog.

With such a huge world making us even smaller blips on the history of this planet, I’m reminded of this unattributed quote.  “In China, when they tell you you’re one in a million, it means that there are a thousand others exactly like you.”