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Touchless soap dispensers puzzle me. Does it really matter what you touch BEFORE you wash your hands?

Mira wrote:

Watcher55 wrote:Ahh, the pitfalls of trial and error; but maybe the emporer was looking for a new cook and puffer fish was the Iron Chef-esque audition dish. "If you can eat your creation without dying, you're hired."

Yes, but how did they even know there was a way to eat it without dying????? I'm serious when I say I think about this ALOT. It sort of drives me nuts.

I think about these kinds of things all the time. Especially when it comes to food. Like, what could possibly have motivated that first person who saw a chicken essentially drop an egg from its bottom and think, "Man, I'm totally going to eat that thing."

Sommer Leigh wrote:

Mira wrote:

Watcher55 wrote:Ahh, the pitfalls of trial and error; but maybe the emporer was looking for a new cook and puffer fish was the Iron Chef-esque audition dish. "If you can eat your creation without dying, you're hired."

Yes, but how did they even know there was a way to eat it without dying????? I'm serious when I say I think about this ALOT. It sort of drives me nuts.

I think about these kinds of things all the time. Especially when it comes to food. Like, what could possibly have motivated that first person who saw a chicken essentially drop an egg from its bottom and think, "Man, I'm totally going to eat that thing."

Before breakfast - really? I can't stop laughing.

How long are the [bot] brothers going to be allowed to lurk without posting?

Sommer Leigh wrote:I think about these kinds of things all the time. Especially when it comes to food. Like, what could possibly have motivated that first person who saw a chicken essentially drop an egg from its bottom and think, "Man, I'm totally going to eat that thing."

OMG, Sommer, that is so true. So true. XD

Claudie wrote:

Sommer Leigh wrote:I think about these kinds of things all the time. Especially when it comes to food. Like, what could possibly have motivated that first person who saw a chicken essentially drop an egg from its bottom and think, "Man, I'm totally going to eat that thing."

OMG, Sommer, that is so true. So true. XD

Hahahahaaaa! It was probably the same person who thought eating snails seemed like a good idea. OR, maybe it was a trick they played on the village/cave idiot, but said idiot had the last laugh! :D

Like a bad penny. It's back.

This one's been buggin' me. What's a chook? (maybe cheeky won't answer right off)

Watcher55 wrote:Like a bad penny. It's back.

This one's been buggin' me. What's a chook? (maybe cheeky won't answer right off)

It's an Australian word for chicken. I used to follow an Australian blog about gardening and the blogger kept chooks. That's how I learned.

Sommer Leigh wrote:

Watcher55 wrote:Like a bad penny. It's back.

This one's been buggin' me. What's a chook? (maybe cheeky won't answer right off)

It's an Australian word for chicken. I used to follow an Australian blog about gardening and the blogger kept chooks. That's how I learned.

Ohhh, nope, nope, nope. Can't be that. Chickens got no cheeks! Ipso facto Q.E.D. So it is proven and all that. You'll have to try harder than that to trick me!

Sommer Leigh wrote:

Mira wrote:

Watcher55 wrote:Ahh, the pitfalls of trial and error; but maybe the emporer was looking for a new cook and puffer fish was the Iron Chef-esque audition dish. "If you can eat your creation without dying, you're hired."

Yes, but how did they even know there was a way to eat it without dying????? I'm serious when I say I think about this ALOT. It sort of drives me nuts.

I think about these kinds of things all the time. Especially when it comes to food. Like, what could possibly have motivated that first person who saw a chicken essentially drop an egg from its bottom and think, "Man, I'm totally going to eat that thing."

I also ponder those things a lot. I wonder who first thought to cook food. I imagine it went something like this: Oh, crap. I dropped my mastodon in the fire! But it is delicious! Now, pass the pepper.

Sommer Leigh wrote:Like, what could possibly have motivated that first person who saw a chicken essentially drop an egg from its bottom and think, "Man, I'm totally going to eat that thing."

In studying shamanism for a project, I learned that many shamanistic cultures have medicinal herbal treatments that the shamans came up with after taking a trance-inducing substance and communing with the plants. The plants themselves told the shaman how they could be used by him/her. So if you believe in shamanism, plants, animals, and rocks can talk if you're in the right frame of mind. If you don't believe in shamanism, it's just some really high dude having delusions and eating weird stuff he finds on the ground.

So perhaps some really tranced out/high person watched a chicken lay an egg...

On a related note, here is one of my favorite quotes from a Time Magazine article: The first artificial sweetener, saccharin, was discovered in 1879 when Constantin Fahlberg, a Johns Hopkins University scientist working on coal-tar derivatives, noticed a substance on his hands and arms that tasted sweet. No one knows why Fahlberg decided to lick an unknown substance off his body…

Forgive me for introducing a rather darker topic than has been seen so far here, but...

Wisdom, like death, is unpredictable. It catches us off guard, and we're rarely ready or prepared for it. It can come in a sudden burst, unexpected, or can show hints of itself, flashes in the dark, steadily revealing more of itself until it is upon us at last, and we can see the light.

They also seem to appear with greater frequency as one grows older, but that is neither here nor there.

So I'm driving nd listening to the radio. A commercial for a Medical Group comes on and they're sellfing their state of the art practices and and excellant doctors....blah - but the the address is

5050 Poplar - I wonder how many patients come out alive? Should they move about 20 blocks up the street to 7030?

If I will actually get lock-jaw if I eat or drink something that came from an opened refrigerated can. Still too scared to try...

Jaime wrote:If there is such a thing as reincarnation, then could it be possible that reincarnation is not a linear event? Could I be reborn in 1478 A.D.? That might explain why some people can predict the future . . . Perhaps they actually lived it.

Oooh! Dibbs on that novel concept!!! New WIP, here I come!

While I'm not aware of anybody thinking that, the Buddhist belief in reincarnation in a cyclical universe means that we could all be the same soul in billions of places at once, at varying stages of learning--or, if you count animals, gods, demons, and so on as having souls, trillions. Quadrillions. (I don't know how many there are supposed to be.)