Taglines

Posted by Dave Bonta on October 5, 2007 (last modified at 10:21 am, 10/31/07)

In a few words, explain what this blog is about.
–Wordpress Dashboard > Options > General > Tagline

These are my thoughts
Engaging in Conversation
A thing about other things
Just another WordPress.com weblog

Where the hell is Poeville?
Joann’s little corner =)
You know you want it.
A source of relevant information.

Crunchy on the inside.
Just ticking along
The long road to literary success
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Capturing the Film World One Frame at a Time
I don’t wanna miss a thing
About me and my thoughts
But texas loves me anyway

Welcome to my mid-life crisis
Where I Open My Brain And Pour It Out On A Metal Slab. Poke If You Must.
More people fail from a lack of encouragement than anything else!
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One man’s gripes against… well, everything…
Unlock the treasures within!
Tacos. Palabras. Espanol. English. Love. Life. Food. Movies. Poetry. Photos. Chicano. Alma.
Spiritual caffeine for advancing the Kingdom.

Life In The Age Of Promise
Pursuing datameaningfulness, online and off
Much study is a wariness of the flash.
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All lines are actual blog taglines, found by surfing WordPress.com blogs. The refrain is the default tagline, which a surprising number of bloggers elect to keep.

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10 Responses to Taglines

  1. quiet regular reader says:
    October 5, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    this strengthens my reluctance to jump into that river.

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  2. Dave says:
    October 5, 2007 at 3:53 pm

    Well, but remember, nothing says you have to have a tagline. Plenty of WP.com bloggers elect not to (and some themes don’t display them).

    I am really digging “Much study is a wariness of the flash,” though.

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  3. Peter says:
    October 5, 2007 at 4:59 pm

    Yeah, like my wife, the “helpmeet.” (Or, God forbid, “helpmeat.”)

    (Back to “much study”: I checked out his blog, and I couldn’t tell if he mangles it on purpose. My guess is that he does.)

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  4. David Harmon says:
    October 5, 2007 at 7:12 pm

    Interesting… it’s be even more cool if you put in links to the “donor” blogs?

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  5. Dave says:
    October 5, 2007 at 9:20 pm

    Peter – He’s a math guy, so I’m guessing it’s on purpose, and also intentionally obscure.

    David – I thought about that, but I didn’t want the source bloggers to see the incoming links and decide I was making fun of them. It should be easy enough to find all but the generic ones by googling, as Peter did.

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  6. chicanonews.net » Taglines says:
    October 5, 2007 at 11:25 pm

    [...] Tacos. Palabras. Espanol. English. Love. Life. Food. Movies. Poetry. Photos. Chicano. Alma. Spiritual caffeine for advancing the Kingdom. Source: [Link] Click to Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

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  7. Lori Witzel says:
    October 6, 2007 at 10:52 am

    Love these found-object-collage poems of yours. Remix on!

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  8. Lucy says:
    October 6, 2007 at 12:04 pm

    I opted for ‘much study…’ as being the most obscure and gnomic, do you think it might be an anagram?
    Otherwise it would have to be ‘a thing about other things’ which makes the least claim for itself…

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  9. robin andrea says:
    October 6, 2007 at 12:34 pm

    Well done, dave. A fine collection. I don’t know why but these taglines make me imagine a doll house filled with miniature objects.

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  10. Dave says:
    October 6, 2007 at 7:45 pm

    Thanks for the comments.

    I really should’ve taken the time to find more gnomic/interesting taglines, but that would be a different kind of post, I guess. it was fun to mix the pedestrian with the bizarre.

    I like the doll house image, robin!

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