The following items are things that (for no apparent reason) I recently thought about or noticed:
IN THE "I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THIS BEFORE, BUT. . ." DEPARTMENT:
A wild turkey looks very much like a miniature ostrich... (emu?...)
Gather would look very different if all the font was "Medieval Manuscript".
Some flies don't die no matter how many times you swat them with a fly swatter...
After getting ready to go somewhere or do something, men spend a lot of time standing around "en masse" waiting, I can only suppose, for the perfect "zen moment" to execute their plans...
Why are there birds EVERYWHERE?
Why is it that a guy could 'accidentally' throw away your best china ("Oh, that old stuff? I didn't think you used it anymore... I took it to the dump the last time I cleaned out the garage...") but, when you suggest that he haul off the 159 rusty pieces of cars (most of which you haven't owned for at LEAST 26 years) that he's got in a storage shed in the backyard, he says: "What are you? Crazy? This Gremlin differential is a highly valuable antique!"
IN THE "CAN YOU IMAGINE. . .?" DEPARTMENT
Re: Pilots That Crash into Bridges
In several places in the world, pilots have accidentally crashed their planes into bridges, e.g., the San Francisco Bay Bridge, (the SF Bay area) Richmond/San Rafael Bridge, the Geo. Washington Bridge. I mean, it's not like the thing was "hidden" at all... Nobody draped it in camoflage... How could they just not SEE it?
Can you imagine the telephone conversation between those pilots and their wives after that happened? "Hello, Honey? I'm going to be a little late for dinner. Yeah, well, I crashed into the bridge. No, I'm okay but we're gonna need another airplane..."
The First Time That Anybody Ever Took LSD:
How crazy was THAT guy?
The Invention of Bread:
"Yah, see, I took some of these seeds, ground 'em up, mixed in some water and bacteria and cooked it. Here, have a piece. . ."
Trying to Drum Up Capital for the First Internal Combustion Engine:
"Well, see, we shoot an incredibly unstable and flammable liquid into this chamber and provide a spark that triggers this explosion..." (Brilliant! Where do I sign?)
IN THE "WHAT IS UP WITH ???" DEPARTMENT:
. . .Camping?
People put thousands of dollars into camping equipment (tents, sleeping bags, campstoves, etc.) buy hundreds of gallons of gas, drive all day and put up with mosquitos, sunburn, and miles of hiking to get to a place where there's no toilet, no TV and no hot water!
. . ."Extreme" Sports?
(Unless I'm missing some kind of VERY discreet "dople entendre") the word "extreme" in these cases is being substituted for the (highly more accurate) "WHAT IN THE *!#!?%#!?!? WERE YOU THINKING!?!?!?".
. . . Sunglasses that cost more than $14.95?
I can't even get in TOUCH with how I would feel right now if I paid 500 bucks for a pair of sunglasses and it met its fate in one of the ways that my last three pair did:
1) I put them in the back pocket of my Levis and sat on them.
2) I dove off a friend's sailboat into a lake with them on the top of my head.
3) I went to put them on while riding on the back of Hubby's Harley, the wind (augmented by Hubby's cruising speed of 135 mph) caught them, ripped them out of my hand and they were crushed beneath the front tire of a following double-semi.
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Awwwww.... Janice... You make me BLUSH! :^D
I have insomnia and lately have been thinking of the strangest stuff. The last time I shared my thoughts with my nephew, he accused me of having attention deficit disorder! I told him he just could not keep up with my superior multi-level thinking ability. While he was trying to figure that out, I made a quick exit!
I DO NOT HAVE ADD!
AS A MATTER OF FACT -- HEY, LOOK A CHICKEN!
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And, love the ADD comment.
This is my first visit to your corner of Gather...and I'm glad that I came.
I'd like to come again.
Look I've made quite a career out of pondering over the things you mention...plus hundreds of others. Don't feel worried about me. You should feel worried about the others.
I've had much more fun and seen more of the world than my "normal" friends have.
Hmmm...your thing on camping worries me...you'll have lots of problems here in South Africa and when you camp here you really camp. (esp no TV). But when you leave for home and you remember the animals and the nature you feel great.
PS In a very staid and serious debate, I proved that the earth was flat and was (reluctantly) given the prize for the evening. I still don't know how I did it. The ideas and concepts just kept coming by magic.
Anyway...nice yo know ya.
Sorry I didn't see your comment 'til just now... but, you know what they say:
"Jean's always late noticing everything..."
And, I wouldn't doubt that you could prove the earth was flat... That's funny because, in a similar situation, myself, I "proved" that there was no "China"! (Those Jr. College speech and philosophy classes came in reeeeeeaaaaalllll handy that night... lol...)