{"id":77,"date":"2012-08-18T16:20:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T20:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-08-18T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T21:35:55","slug":"fifty-shades-of-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Shades of Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Damn. Blew it. Opportunity Lost. An English major who finally had a real chance to create something which could have established his eternal wealth. I\u2019m pretty sure this book concept would have broken all summer reading records \u2013 it was going to be called Fifty Shades of Greene<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yeah, yeah, I know – somebody stole the idea already. There\u2019s some other book out there with a similar name \u2013 Fifty Shades of Grey<\/strong><\/em> or something like that. Grey isn’t as exciting a color as Greene; and Greene’s a better play on words since my last name is, you know, Greene. \u00a0Although, the other book seems to be really popular\u2026oh, and it’s already a three book series.<\/p>\n

Popular is an understatement. On a spring getaway earlier this year literally every single woman on the beach was reading this book. Most were reading in paperback, while others madly clicked pages on their Kindles (probably the shy girls reading in secret).<\/p>\n

No matter what the content vehicle the scene each day was the same for their version of literary therapy:<\/p>\n

Each of the women on the beach reading Grey<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0would read a little, shift around a little…read a little more, shift around A WHOLE LOT<\/strong> more\u2026and then finally get up to go cool off in the ocean. \u00a0And, as the instructions say – “return to your chair and repeat as necessary until totally exhausted.”<\/p>\n

Like the Joy of Cooking<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(except the utensils are more important than the ingredients) readers of this book ranged across many generations – Daughters, mothers, grandmothers\u2026What a book!<\/p>\n

Fun part is that nobody will discuss Grey<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0in the open. \u00a0When women of all ages gather together, it\u2019s whispered questions like \u201chave you read IT<\/strong><\/em>?\u201d Or in some communities, there are reading clubs\/book parties where women bring some of the \u201ctoys\u201d described in the book to \u201cdiscuss.\u201d All I know is there\u2019s a whole lot of winking, nodding and blushing going on within the female community when the name of this book pops up in conversation.<\/p>\n

Sure the men are trying to get into the act saying things like \u201chow\u2019s that working for you?\u201d Or, \u201cnotice any changes?\u201d And we all laugh, knowing full well that in reality Grey<\/strong> isn\u2019t working for us at all. Nope, these gals are keeping all this juicy stuff to themselves like some Coca-Cola trade secret or chicken recipe that can only be handed down through generations of women.<\/p>\n

However, in this recipe they really beat the egg whites until stiff!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh well, it won\u2019t be the first great idea I’ve had to be snatched up by others (see Post-Its and vermouth flavored ice cubes). Let that other writer enjoy her unique idea and go to the bank with it. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll come up with some other great book concept\u2026.wait here\u2019s one \u2013<\/p>\n

Hairy Potter<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 this is the story of a furry wizard who along with his friends, Ron and Hermione, who are students at the Supercuts School of Witchcraft, Wizardry and Electrolysis.<\/p>\n

Ah, think this concept needs some whipping into shape…ugh, there\u2019s another Grey\u2019s<\/strong><\/em> reference\u2026<\/p>\n

Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damn. Blew it. Opportunity Lost. An English major who finally had a real chance to create something which could have established his eternal wealth. I\u2019m pretty sure this book concept would have broken all summer reading records \u2013 it was going to be called Fifty Shades of Greene. Yeah, yeah, I know – somebody stole the idea already. There\u2019s some… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Clfm-1f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}