Welcome to 2Lincolns, a blog that chronicles the inner-workings of one of today’s most active minds–mine.

My name is Jeff, and I am the creator, writer, designer, and supreme overlord of 2Lincolns.com.

How Did 2Lincolns Come To Be?

Junior bacon cheeseburgers, that’s how.

The man behind 2Lincolns

I’ll back up.  I guess it all started in college.  I’ve always had an active mind, and I’ve seldom been one to suppress the output of the zombie meal attached to my spine, regardless of the situation.  The post-secondary educational world is filled with a diverse population of intellectuals and budding alcoholics, with mutual exclusivity among the two most certainly not guaranteed.  I came to learn that although I was not always agreed with, my thoughts were viewed as interesting, clever, funny, and at the very least, entertaining by a large portion of the  college demographic.

Cue the real world.  I began to find that my time spent in the real world was inversely proportional to my opportunities to be creative and express myself.  In other words, like many who had come before me, I was slowly becoming lame.  To avoid becoming merely a repository for corporate-related jokes and proper usage of “That’s what she said,” something had to be done.  The urgency of the situation soon became abundantly clear; when waiting for coffee to brew at work, I glanced at a clipping a coworker had posted.  I scanned the slightly yellowed paper and smirked, then slowly frowned in horror–I had found Dilbert funny.

My need for a creative outlet was clear.  It was then that I discovered blogging.  I’ve always thought of myself as one against the sometimes pretentious foundation of blogging.  In the end, I decided it was okay since I’m doing this to prevent adult onset lameness, a disability affecting many.  I also figured that since I had a Computer Science degree and a “Best of Round” award from a 7th grade writing competition, blogging on the internet was a perfect medium for me to express my creativity, and potentially reach countless readers.

Okay, back to the junior bacon cheeseburgers.  Amidst a struggle of what to call my blog, I saw a commercial on TV for 99 cent junior bacon cheeseburgers at Wendy’s.  The commercial portrayed each cent as a “Lincoln,” or an Abraham Lincoln look-alike, each representative of a penny.  I combined this with the idiomatic expression “my two cents” and came up with 2Lincolns.  Wikipedia explains:

“It used to preface the tentative stating of one’s opinion. By deprecating the opinion to follow–suggesting its value is only two cents, a very small amount–the user of the phrase hopes to lessen the impact of a possibly contentious statement, showing politeness and humility. However, it is also sometimes used with irony when expressing a strongly felt opinion.”

Given the fact that Abraham Lincoln also appears on the five dollar bill, 2Lincolns takes on a double meaning, and the sometimes ironic usage of the “my two cents” idiom is actually an acceptable expectation.  Whether humbly presenting my two cents or strongly voicing my ten dollars, you can be assured you’re getting my 2 Lincolns.

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