Okay, after I discussed my "a penny for your thoughts" speech, me and some friends determined that although you are losing a penny every time you speak, everytime you ignore someone, you make money! Because if you don't put two cents in, all you have is the penny for your thoughts, which will add up over time and help counter the debt you may have obtained. Now, cheerleaders, that's different. There is absolutely no way they can get money out of this, because they can't ignore people. They HAVE to talk. Fact of life, get over it. But emo kids must be making a killing. There is also the matter of "taking the words out of my mouth". Let's say that someone takes the words right out of your mouth, and you were not putting your two cents in. You would have been making a penny for your thoughts, but when they took the words out of your mouth, you went into the negative (losing 1 penny) and then when you go to say "You took the words right out of my mouth, you again lost two cents. Now you're 3 cents in the negative, and the other person just made 4 cents. Wow, the economy has never been so utterly pointless. But now that we're off of that, I'd like to continue with my expressions speeches, and why we should change them.

Cry over spilled milk. When you are complaining about something that cannot be undone, someone will tell you "no use crying over spilled milk". Well, that's all fine and dandy (which is another one that I'll get to eventually) but not everyone likes milk. Some cows wouldn't care if they spilled milk. Actually, I don't think any cows would care. They'd just keep eating. And what about lactose intolerant people? They would probably rather spill milk than drink it, and I can't see them losing any sleep over it.

Don't hold your breath. When you're waiting for something that you might as well not be, you hear "don't hold your breath". First of all, they aren't holding their breath, they are waiting for something, two entirely different things. To hold your breath would be to wait for death, as long as you kept it held long enough. I'm willing to guess that most people who would wait for death are probably better off just slashing their wrists, it'd be quicker. Or a bullet through the head, that always works in the movies. So, people should say "Stop waiting" instead of "don't hold your breath".

Easier said than done. I'm sure you all know what this one means, but when you think about it, it's ALWAYS easier to say something than to do it. "I'm going to sit down". Simple. Then you sit down. Which one was easier?

Every cloud has a silver lining, I'm sure you've all heard this one before. The only clouds that have silver linings are the ones that pass in front of the sun, or are out during the day (even though the silver lining on those don't go all the way around the cloud). What about at night? No silver lining. During a storm? No silver lining. Tornado, hurricane, none of those have a silver lining. And if you're outside looking for a silver lining in those situations, please, just kill yourself now and rid the world of one less moron.

Everything A-Z. Not everything falls within that range, we've got numbers don't we? Greek letters aren't part of the conventional alphabet and are therefore not between A-Z. Just say everything, it's 3 syllables shorter.

From rags to riches. Hmm...do you really see anyone wearing rags? Okay, hobos. Lets use them as an example. Now, we must send him from rags to riches. Have you EVER seen a hobo who did that? No. And if you have, then please, prove it.

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This is just an entry about some of the things that people say that I just don't like, either because they're stupid or just don't make any sense at all.

First of all, we have "a penny for your thoughts" and "putting your two cents in". Okay, now this is not a sound financial decision. We talk everyday, and we think everyday, which leads to us voicing our opinions. So whenever we say something to someone, we get a penny for our thoughts, but we're also putting our two cents in! That's losing a penny every time we speak! This would accumulate over the years and we would lose millions of dollars (yeah, it adds up pretty quickly) so those expressions suck and need to be completely rethought.

"Let the cat out of the bag". Okay...why did you put the cat in your bag in the first place? You probably got your arm scratched the hell out of trying to get that cat in there, and now you're going to release it? It's been building up rage in that bag while you've been carrying it, letting it out is almost as stupid a decision as putting it in the bag in the first place.

"Best thing since sliced bread". Well...so this is it. How long have humans been around? I'm not good with history, but come on! The wheel! Fire! The pyramids, civilization, I can think of thousands of things better than sliced bread! A tuna/egg salad sandwich. You have to put the tuna/egg salad stuff on the sliced bread, so you're expanding on best thing ever (apparently) making it even better. Again, this expression sucks. Sliced bread is not that great.

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder". Wrong. Absence makes the heart grow fungus, I'm sure if you took your heart out and left it on the table you would see what I'm talking about.

"Takes the cake". Why? Why are we taking the cake? Don't get me wrong, I would also take the cake, especially if it was chocolate. But what idiot is going to walk up and take your cake? And you know what? Why take the cake? Take the pie, it's a lot easier to carry than cake!

"It's raining cats and dogs". I have never seen it rain cats and dogs, and if it did, not only would I be depressed, but I would have to clean my yard.

"Near miss". When two planes come close to hitting each other, they call it a near miss. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss! BOOM. Oh, look, they nearly missed. Yeah, but not quite!

"Take the bull by the horns". I don't know about you, but if there was a bull near me, I'd be running the other way, getting behind stuff and trying to live. No way in hell you're gonna get me to grab that thing by the horns, there are several things that could happen if you missed. And I like having my internal organs in good shape.

"Alive and kicking". As opposed to...dead and kicking? If a dead person starts kicking I think you should shoot it in the head before it bites you. This phrase speaks for itself and shouldn't be in the language at all.

"Bite your head off". Now, this one I'm really curious about. Where exactly did this originate? And did people get their heads bitten off there? If not, then they are misleading others and need to change this.

Do you ever get that feeling that something just happened, and their is no way it was a coincidence?  I'm not talking about things like you losing a sock and talking about socks at school, I'm talking things like having a dream that your friend got run off the road into a ditch, and waking up the next morning to a call from the emergency room about that friend.

A lot of people don't believe in psychic powers, and that makes me think that people doubt the power of the human mind.  I'm sure you've heard this before, but humans only use about 10% of their brain or something along those lines.  First off, I think that there is probably a reason for that.  I'd venture to say that people with precognitive abilities utilize about 12-13% of their brains.  I think that if someone could use 100% of their brain, their head would explode.  That, my friends, is power.

So, telepathy and precognition.  I am 100% convinced that these two psychic powers are possible, maybe not to the extent of predicting the future years from now, but maybe a few minutes or so in advance, enough to save your life if you have to.  Let's face it, if you're driving down the road and you suddenly see yourself being hit by a car, or even if you just get a bad feeling about the red F-150 driving near you, you would probably slow down or stop, maybe turn and go another way.  After some of the stuff that's happened to me, I know I would.

Normally, I would pass these events off as coincidence, but they are just too weird to be one.  Maybe you're at the mall and you're about to round the corner, and out of nowhere you think "It'd be weird to see so-and-so-person right now," and you round it and keep walking, and about halfway down you run into the person you had thought of.  The jury is up on whether that was precognition or telepathy.  One way you could've predicted it, the other you connected with their mind and thought of them.

Psychokinesis and telekinesis are much harder for me to believe are possible on a large scale.  Uri Geller was a fake, but there was that one Russian woman, I think in the 1950's, who could move objects without touching them, and I'm pretty sure she died of brain related issues.  If you're telekinetic, don't overexert yourself.  It would suck to die that way.

Now we move onto those science fiction powers.  Among them, there are pyrokinesis, cryokinesis, atmokinesis, terrakinesis, gravitakinesis, sonokinesis, basically a bunch of stuff ending in -kinesis.  A lot of these powers would be possible if telekinesis were available on a larger scale, without making our brains explode from too much brain usage.  Since it isn't, these powers are nothing but myths right now.

Well, after I made my blog a few minutes ago I told my friend about it, and he told me about something from Google that generates money for you or something.  I wasn't quite paying attention, so I lost the link and he signed off.  So I search for ways to make money off of blogs, and I found this site:

Blogsvertise

What you do is sign up with them, and if they approve you they'll start sending you sites to write about.  This is good because 1.) You're being paid to do this and 2.) You have a bunch of new stuff to write about if you're going through a dry spell.  What you write about the site could be anything pertaining to it, about 50-60 words. 
You need a PayPal account and, of course, a blog to take advantage of this awesome site.

When you're writing your 50-60 words, you have to make sure to link to the site 3 times.  That's 3 separate times, so about once per 20 words.  Then, Blogsvertise will approve your post and credit your PayPal account.
Now here's the fun part, the pay.  You've probably been waiting for this, so I'll take a second to taunt you just a little bit more before I finally tell you.  Okay, that's good enough.  You get paid $10 for each post you make for them!  Of course, you have to wait 30 days and keep the post on the blog, but once that's done, 30 days <br /> <a href="http://www.blogsvertise.com/"> <br /><font face=times new roman,times,serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></font><font color="#0000ff">Blogsvertise</font></a><font color="#0000ff"> </font> <br /> <br /> will credit you.  Think about that, a couple of minutes and 50-60 words, and you get $10!  Do this ten times and you make an easy $100!