My Favorite Norms
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My Favorite Norms
Norm Macdonald was one of my favorite comics. He was really super duper funny.
Like this clip.
And since I like to keep lists of things, I got to thinking, “what’re my favorite Norms?”
And it occurred to me, “what a fantastic idea for an eRepublik article!”
So Norm Macdonald is definitely on my list of favorite norms.
I also love Normalcy.
Talk about underrated. Normalcy is the best. Everything is exactly the way you’d expect it to be. No surprises. Nothing out of order. Everything is just so normal when it is under the magic spell of normalcy. It’s awesome. If you’ve never tried it, maybe you could add it to your list of things to do. You keep lists, right? Or maybe not if you’ve never tried normalcy. Keeping lists is pretty normal, so I suppose it follows that if you’ve never tried normalcy then you’re not the kind of person who would even make a list of things to try.
Eh, try it anyway.
So yeah, normalcy is also on my list of favorite norms.
Abnormalcy.
Notwithstanding all of the substantive data I provided above pertaining to normalcy, my list of favorite norms would not be complete without the inclusion of abnormalcy.
People think it’s so normal to be normal, but if you think about it there isn’t really too much of it out there. There’s far more abnormalcy. And because of that, it makes sense to me that I better put it on my list. I mean, why would anyone want to try to engage this life opposed to abnormalcy when it is, in fact, something you normally run into all the time. I feel like it is one of the smartest things I’ve done. Abnormalcy is definitely on my list of favorite norms.
And let’s not forget Normandy!
Normandy (/ˈnɔːrməndi/; French: Normandie [nɔʁmɑ̃di] (listen); Norman: Normaundie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages)[2] is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.
Normandy comprises mainland Normandy (a part of France) and the Channel Islands (mostly the British Crown Dependencies). It covers 30,627 square kilometres (11,825 sq mi).[3] Its population is 3,499,280. The inhabitants of Normandy are known as Normans,[1] and the region is the historic homeland of the Norman language. Large settlements include Rouen, Le Havre and Cherbourg.
The cultural region of Normandy is roughly similar to the historical Duchy of Normandy, which includes small areas now part of the departments of Mayenne and Sarthe. The Channel Islands (French: Îles Anglo-Normandes) are also historically part of Normandy; they cover 194 square kilometres (75 sq mi)[4] and comprise two bailiwicks: Guernsey and Jersey, which are British Crown Dependencies.
Normandy's name comes from the settlement of the territory by Vikings ("Northmen") starting in the 9th century, and confirmed by treaty in the 10th century between King Charles III of France and the Viking jarl Rollo. For almost 150 years following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, Normandy and England were linked by having the same person reign as both Duke of Normandy and King of England.
And that’s just what I can think of off the top of my head.
Normandy, man. It so totally belongs on my list.
If you want to know more about Normandy, you could try googling it or looking around for information somewhere on the web. I don’t know if you’ll find anything, but at least you’ve got the information I gave you. You’re welcome.
I was going to include enormity on my list. Enormity is an awesome norm.
But I’m leaving it off the list. I don’t want people to think I’m inflating things just for content.
This doesn’t have to be an enormous list, after all. And because of that I guess enormity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
So no. No enormity.
Ditto lognormality. Mathematicians be damned.
No list of favorite norms would be complete without normless.
Normlessness is my very favorite norm and it is at the top of my list. We should all truly live in a normless world.
Now a clever reader might ask, “but Gnilraps, if you want to live in a normless world, wouldn’t that completely undermine the notion of there being things like lists?”
And you’d be correct. One of the consequences of normlessness, and again I invite you to google it, is that there are no norms. And what is a good list but an attempt to establish a grouping of items that fall under a similar norm. So in a final cruel twist of rhetorical irony I hereby declare normless to be the only item on my list of favorite norms, and you can simply ignore all of the things I have written previously in this article.
The last item on my list of favorite norms is that guy Norman Chutley. Most people don’t know this about him, but I do:
That’s all. Thanks for reading.
-Gnilraps
Norm Macdonald was one of my favorite comics. He was really super duper funny.
Like this clip.
And since I like to keep lists of things, I got to thinking, “what’re my favorite Norms?”
And it occurred to me, “what a fantastic idea for an eRepublik article!”
So Norm Macdonald is definitely on my list of favorite norms.
I also love Normalcy.
Talk about underrated. Normalcy is the best. Everything is exactly the way you’d expect it to be. No surprises. Nothing out of order. Everything is just so normal when it is under the magic spell of normalcy. It’s awesome. If you’ve never tried it, maybe you could add it to your list of things to do. You keep lists, right? Or maybe not if you’ve never tried normalcy. Keeping lists is pretty normal, so I suppose it follows that if you’ve never tried normalcy then you’re not the kind of person who would even make a list of things to try.
Eh, try it anyway.
So yeah, normalcy is also on my list of favorite norms.
Abnormalcy.
Notwithstanding all of the substantive data I provided above pertaining to normalcy, my list of favorite norms would not be complete without the inclusion of abnormalcy.
People think it’s so normal to be normal, but if you think about it there isn’t really too much of it out there. There’s far more abnormalcy. And because of that, it makes sense to me that I better put it on my list. I mean, why would anyone want to try to engage this life opposed to abnormalcy when it is, in fact, something you normally run into all the time. I feel like it is one of the smartest things I’ve done. Abnormalcy is definitely on my list of favorite norms.
And let’s not forget Normandy!
Normandy (/ˈnɔːrməndi/; French: Normandie [nɔʁmɑ̃di] (listen); Norman: Normaundie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages)[2] is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.
Normandy comprises mainland Normandy (a part of France) and the Channel Islands (mostly the British Crown Dependencies). It covers 30,627 square kilometres (11,825 sq mi).[3] Its population is 3,499,280. The inhabitants of Normandy are known as Normans,[1] and the region is the historic homeland of the Norman language. Large settlements include Rouen, Le Havre and Cherbourg.
The cultural region of Normandy is roughly similar to the historical Duchy of Normandy, which includes small areas now part of the departments of Mayenne and Sarthe. The Channel Islands (French: Îles Anglo-Normandes) are also historically part of Normandy; they cover 194 square kilometres (75 sq mi)[4] and comprise two bailiwicks: Guernsey and Jersey, which are British Crown Dependencies.
Normandy's name comes from the settlement of the territory by Vikings ("Northmen") starting in the 9th century, and confirmed by treaty in the 10th century between King Charles III of France and the Viking jarl Rollo. For almost 150 years following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, Normandy and England were linked by having the same person reign as both Duke of Normandy and King of England.
And that’s just what I can think of off the top of my head.
Normandy, man. It so totally belongs on my list.
If you want to know more about Normandy, you could try googling it or looking around for information somewhere on the web. I don’t know if you’ll find anything, but at least you’ve got the information I gave you. You’re welcome.
I was going to include enormity on my list. Enormity is an awesome norm.
But I’m leaving it off the list. I don’t want people to think I’m inflating things just for content.
This doesn’t have to be an enormous list, after all. And because of that I guess enormity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
So no. No enormity.
Ditto lognormality. Mathematicians be damned.
No list of favorite norms would be complete without normless.
Normlessness is my very favorite norm and it is at the top of my list. We should all truly live in a normless world.
Now a clever reader might ask, “but Gnilraps, if you want to live in a normless world, wouldn’t that completely undermine the notion of there being things like lists?”
And you’d be correct. One of the consequences of normlessness, and again I invite you to google it, is that there are no norms. And what is a good list but an attempt to establish a grouping of items that fall under a similar norm. So in a final cruel twist of rhetorical irony I hereby declare normless to be the only item on my list of favorite norms, and you can simply ignore all of the things I have written previously in this article.
The last item on my list of favorite norms is that guy Norman Chutley. Most people don’t know this about him, but I do:
That’s all. Thanks for reading.
-Gnilraps
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What are some of your favorite norms?
Norm Macdonald and Norm from Cheers.
Norm Macdonald IS MY HERO.
You totally forgot Norm from the show Cheers
Shoot! Good one.
I am sure there are other great Norms out there I haven't mentioned.
I mean, Norman Rockwell anyone?
oooh awesome one... he is amazing
You are a piece of crap gnil. You are a liar, fraud, domestic abuser and a thief. He's harassing and now trolling me.. and thanks Mel, good friend you are too.. You should hear all of the nasty things Gnilcraps said about you in person. I never told you about the things gnil said about you, I didnt want to cause you any harm. But if you want to jump in with him after all this, fine..
🍿 hmm
Not all norms made the list, apparently.
using multi accounts to troll those that he feels wronged him ... just a sad little man in RL and a second rate bitter troll here, throwing former players accounts under the bus for his sad attempts at attention
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This is kind of sad.
something you know a lot about
You are very correct my dear friend George.
I know sadness all too well.
You do have a pleasant evening.
Did you found that first name of Chutley is Norman after you met him in alcoholics anonymous?
How dare you imply that either him or I would even consider giving up on our drunken stupor!