Contemplating Snow

January 23, 2007

I was sittin' around, contemplating the snow situation and here's some stuff I came up with:

"Stewardesses" is the longest word in English that is typed with only the left hand; most American car horns honk in the key of F; Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts, and the average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

I don't know how I come up with this stuff, or why I remember that the citrus soda "7-UP" was created in 1929 and that the " 7" was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.

Nor do I know how I came to know that "101 Dalmatians", "Peter Pan", "Lady and the Tramp", and "Mulan" are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die in the movie.

See what the lack of new snow is doing to my addled brain?

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. That's the trick to make it let you go instantly; reindeer really like to eat bananas; no word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple; Mel Blanc was allergic to carrots and the electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Finally, as my contemplation turned toward my navel, it occurred to me that the word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

Eh.

Think Snow.

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