January 17, 2022 (Monday night/Martin Luther King Jr. holiday)
I could go on a political rant … or musing … or pondering of some such something … but I won’t. I’m kind of sick of all of it and need a break from the on-going and exhausting voting/covid/political insanity.
So, today I decided to go through some of my old, saved files … and came upon a treasure trove of random trivia, thoughtful quips and unanswered questions.
Here is a sampling of things I’ve thought important enough to save over the years and here’s hoping they’ll give you a little laugh or something to think about:
Random Trivia: More than 40% of Australia is wilderness; the US is 5%. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour is 500,000. It is impossible to lick your elbow. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer. While Obsession, Aquaholic, Happy Ours and Seas the Day have been popular boat names in the past … lately Social Distancing has been gaining popularity. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite. There is no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Vitamins. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself. There are 253 ways to make change for a dollar. The only food that doesn’t spoil is honey.
Thoughtful Quip: Attitude … The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude is more important than fact. It is more important than experience, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a home, a person. The remarkable thing is that we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past and we cannot change the fact that people will act a certain way. We cannot change the future or the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Life is 10% what happens to a person and 90% how that person reacts to it.
Unanswered Questions: Why didn’t Tarzan have a beard? Is there ever a day when mattresses are not on sale? Why do people run over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner then reach down and pick it up/look at it/then put it back down on the floor and give the vacuum one more try at it? In winter, why do we keep the house as warm as it is in the summer when we complain about the heat? Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak? Why does someone believe when they are told there are 200 billion trillion stars in the universe but check when told that paint is wet? Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets? Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white? And, whose brilliant idea was it to put an “s” in the word lisp?
Hoping this made you smile. And, I bet you tried to lick your elbow!