McB: I have questions

I’m not technically supposed to be ‘on stage’ until the weekend, so let’s just start the weekend early, shall we? 

What’s the big deal about designer labels?  I’m not talking about the high prices.  If something is exactly what you want, the quality is good, the right color and style, particularly suits your needs, etc. – if its right and you have the money go ahead and get it.  But what’s the big deal about whose name is on it?  Would it be any less the perfect handbag or pair of shoes if the label wasn’t recognizable? 

There’s this kind of fish, a type of puffer fish, called fugu which is apparently extremely toxic unless it is fixed a very specific way in which case its a great delicacy.  Who figured out what the right way was and, more to the point, why?  How did they know they finally got it right, experiment?  “Oops, there goes another customer.  Back to the drawing board.”

That woman in the Bathfitters commercial (Do you get this commercial?  This woman walks into her bathroom and pulls back the shower curtain only to discover that her tub is covered in grime and mold, really and truly filthy.  And she’s shocked.  Apparently she never noticed before):  what happens when her bathtub gets filthy again?  Does she just keep buying new ones?  I mean, she never cleaned it before, why would she start now?

Has anyone every been enticed to buy a particular perfume based on those scented cards stuck in magazines?  Have you ever decided against buying the magazine because of them?

Does Bob have a middle name?  If so, what is it? 

Do you realize that every culture on the planet has figured out how to make alcoholic beverages from something?  I mean even from things like rice and potatoes.  Why? 

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 P.S.  after making fun of my pansies, you guys probably don’t deserve this … but here’s a snap of Cerise and her friends anyway.     Yes today was the day I took my cousin’s family to see the National Zoo.

And no trip to the National Zoo is complete if you don’t have photos of …

     PANDAS!  Baby on the left and Mama on the right. 

91 comments January 12th, 2007