Today I became aware of that my blog was linked to by someone I didn't know. I got curious of course and looked it up. The site was about flippism, that didn't make me any wiser. But looking deeper I found the key and I felt really good about it.
Looking around a bit more I found out that flippism seems populated by Icelanders. Now I felt even better being an avid reader of the Icelandic sagas. When I was younger I spent one month driving around Iceland looking up placed from the sagas. I met a professor in archeology there and tried to get him to talk about the sagas and the remains, unfortunately he was not into flippism and didn't even acknowledge that the location of Bergthorsknoll was known, the earth moves he said. I found it on the map though and I was not disappointed by the view there, just beautiful.
Driving around Iceland was adventurous. I was driving a Ford Escort which had never seen anything but paved roads. As I had set my mind on going to Snaefellsjökull I had to take the car out on the gravel. It didn't take long before the gas tank had sustained to much punishment. Gasoline started to leak out and I had to rush back to civilization consuming 1 gallon a mile.
During my high school years earning the epithet of 'flippig' was good. 'Flippig' is a Swedish word which I don't have a good translation for but it was assigned to the somewhat uncontrollable and creative. Seems like there is a connection there. So far I'm only on the watching list but who knows, maybe I will finally reach the realm of flippism.
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...and the watcher becomes the watched; turnabout is fair play. Consider yourself Flipped.
Thank you good professor and welcome to my blog :-)
I felt it this morning waking up on the flipped side.
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