Does it ever strike you as maybe just a little bit odd that pickles spend so much time in liquid, yet still maintain a turtle-like exterior??? If I stay in a bathtub longer than twenty minutes, my fingers look like grooves in a dirt road, after two hours of pounding rain. Yet somehow, pickles have this bumpy, rough-and-tumble skin - right out of the jar!!

I don't get it...

Another thing that concerns me is pumpkin seeds. Sure,we all enjoy a handful of roasted and salted pumpkin seeds as a snack, but did you ever stop to think about what may have happened to the rest of the pumpkin?? I don't think they surgically remove the seeds, and wait for the pumpkin to mend before they go back in for another round... My theory, sad and sobering as it may be, is that thousands of pumpkins are dying every day, so that we can savor a treat other than those smaller and harder-shelled sunflower seeds. Would that image of pillaged pumpkins make you sleep a little less comfortably tonight??

Do you think an apple a day still keeps the doctor away?? And if you're giving all your apples to the doctor, what's left for the school teachers??

If a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush, what is the correct assumption if you're holding a bush in your hands??

What would you do if I sang out of tune??

Are there still flying nuns out there somewhere??

If you climbed a mountain in search of a wise man, would these be the questions to run past him, for enlightenment?? And if the guy is so wise after all, why isn't he on a hammock somewhere in Waikiki??

My mind burns for answers...

Chow for now!!