Our Lady of Blessed Over-eating don’t fail me now…
Thanksgiving is here and gone. This year, it really snuck up on me. In fact, I am kinda confused how it became nearly December, and I did not realize it. Simply, either global warming has really messed things up or I need to get out more… or at least look at a calendar more often.
Ever wondered why there is this huge chunk o’ holidays in the late-November, mid-December timeframe? I figured it out. It is to help us grow a protective layer of blubber. That’s right. We all remember biology class from who-knows-when and learning about seals in the Arctic. They have protective layers of blubber to keep the warm. We too have protective layers of blubber… but we don’t like to talk about it. Call it an ugly-secret hold-over that we haven’t evolved out of. So think about it… November starts to get cold, in December winter really kicks in… and you NEED something to keep you warm. Solution: build a few gluttony-based holidays into the calendar and bingo! you’ve got your protective layer of blubber ready to go.
In other news, the word chad is getting way too much airtime. I wanted a better definition so I found this:
Main Entry: chad
Pronunciation: ‘chad
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1947
: small pieces of paper or cardboard produced in punching paper tape or data cards; also : a piece of chad
– chad·less /-l&s/ adjective
It appears (at least, to me) that chad comes from the old data processing days when punch cards were king. What does one do with all these unwed pregnant chads? For that matter, what does one do with the chads who gave their simple lives so that a vote for Nader could be counted?