Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Things I've Been Wondering Lately

* Was butternut squash named after Julia Child?

* Does everyone look like a mugger in a hoodie, or just everyone I've seen lately?

* What on earth made the first person look at a 40-pound hubbard squash and say, "You know, I bet I could eat that?"

* Are there any grocery carts without one crazy wheel?

* Is there a club somewhere devoted to typing up urban legends to send around the internet, and do they get prizes for coming up with the craziest ones?

* If cats view their humans as staff, can I be fired?

* Do we like the self-checkout machines in stores because we are unsocial or because most of us had a toy cash register when we were children?

* Have humans caused the craziness of the weather this year, or has Mother Nature always been a little loopy?

* Why do people who don't cook watch the Food Network?

* Has there ever been a woman anywhere who went to her closet, looked inside, and said "Yep, I have enough shoes?"

* How can any decent human being listen to a media personality who advocates violence against another human being?

4 comments:

bittenbyknittin said...

I have too many shoes and it bothers me. I watch football but do not play it. I'm changing my dog's name to Boss O' Me. And I'm anti-social. (It took me a minute to get the Julia Child-butternut connections. Good one!)

Mandy said...

I'm sorry, I still don't get the connection. We have only recently started getting butternut squashes in our shops.
We never did get Julia Child round here. I know she is a famous cook, there is a film mentioning her.....
Put it down to my being English.
What do you do with a butternut squash apart from making soup? A young guest made that for us a few years ago. (The first time I had ever seen one!) It looked like such hard work for nothing much in return. The soup was nice, but then he had added some lovely spices to it.

Lori said...

I don't get the butternut squash and Julia Child thing either... terrible when you have to explain a joke, I know, but could you clue us in? You can use butternut squash to make pies to - same philosophy as pumpkin.

Toni said...

Ha, the butternut joke was a pretty big stretch. Julia Child seems to have cooked EVERYTHING in butter--and lots of it--so I was thinking the other day that she was nuts about butter, so a "butter nut."

Quite a stretch, I know.

:)

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