Mostly whimsy and drivel of no consequence. And CHEESE.
Holy Cow. People do still play this game (at least that’s what my extensive, scientific and undisputedly reliable internet research tells me). And as for “a rhyme for rambo” – it is a rhyming game. Apparently, one should play crambo or dumb crambo with one’s children.
Is it because of the cabbage?
The game crambo originated around 1600.
The word “crambo” is from the Latin for cabbage.
Cabbage? That must be why it’s such a popular game, even today…
When a shrimp is first born, it is male,
and it gradually evolves to female as it matures.
Perhaps we can all learn something from the second part of that sentence, specifically, “it gradually evolves to female as it matures.” Yes, “evolves to female as it matures.” Let’s all ponder that one for a while…
In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town’s books
against riding down the street in a motorboat.
Thank god. SOMEONE needs to acknowledge the appalling menace created when riding down the street in a motorboat. You may think I’m being ironic. You may think I’m being facetious. No, indeed, NO. I, alas, bear the everlasting, disfiguring scars on my very body* from being dragged down the street behind a motorboat in which people were riding [down the street]. There was a parade of sorts involved as well as a Radio Flyer® wagon and a rope, but that’s a story for another time. I think I might be tempted to move to Breton, Alabama, where one is shielded from the horrific peril of people riding down the street in motorboats. Unfortunately, I have an unsubstantiated but devastating fear of the South in general. I’ll just have to take my chances.
*Mostly on my right arm and wrist. One of them looks rather like a teensy weensy turtle.
The winged hat worn by the ancient Greek god Hermes (or, in Roman mythology, Mercury) was called a “petasos.”
Dan was watching me type the sentence above and he said, “I knew that.” ??????? Who knows that? And why?
And is it worth 3 cents? Perhaps I should cancel my “Fact of the Day” subscription and just have Dan share random, useless tidbits upon request. I’d pay him 2 cents. After all, there should be a spousal discount of some sort.
An average man on an average day excretes two and a half quarts of sweat.
Not sodden enough for you? According to David A. Gershaw, Ph.D., “With people who are much more active, the heat and exertion can increase this output [output of sedentary person being a ‘small amount of fluid’ to 2 quarts per day] to 5-10 quarts.” Isn’t that how much fluid a car’s oil tank holds?
In case you were wondering, you can drink sweat.
A winkle is an edible sea snail.
Not to be confused with Mr. Winkle. He, unlike our sea snail friend, is harmless.
Winkle! Winkle!! WINKLE!!!!
The following is one of the tidbits from the “Fact of the Day” service. These nuggets of erudition arrive on my mobile phone each evening at 7:00 p.m. MST. I pay two cents every day for this privilege. Hold onto your seats:
An elementary rule of mushroom collecting is never to place edible and poisonous specimens together.
I am rendered [practically] speechless. Would you have EVER thought of such a thing without having seen this “elementary rule of mushroom collecting?”
Thank you, Fact of the Day. Oh, the lives you’ll save.
