I WONDER WHY.....

I am not sure if I have had too much time on my hands over the years or if I just have an inquisitive mind, but certain things cause me to ponder their purpose and origin over the years. Not deep topics such as "What is the meaning of life?" or "Why am I here?" or "How come a leopard has spots and an elephant doesn't?" or "Why is it that a man won't ask for directions when lost?" These topics would show that I was a deep thinker, one who ponders over the status of the universe.

I ponder over more trivial ideas. I wonder how some things got started and why they got started. How did one word come to mean something in our language..............who thought it up? What precipatated the creation of the bra or some other at-the-moment-seemingly unimportant item?

I can get lost in thought in things like trying to figure out why man decided to pick certain items and decide they should be eaten. Was man walking along the beach one day and saw a clam which I am sure must have looked like a rock and thought, "Hmmm, if I break this open, there will be something edible inside it."?

What made man observe a lobster and say to himself, "This looks like it would be a delicacy with melted butter, so I am going to cook it." What could have possibly been going through man's mind when he saw a cow and scratched his head and uttered (no pun intended), "Hmm, I wonder if I squeeze those thingings hanging down, will I get something nourishing to drink?"

What was he thinking when he dug a hole and saw this root laying there under the surface and decided to pull it and cook it? Is this how our taste for carrots, potatoes, turnips, etc. came about? What ever gave man the idea to pull certain plants or parts of and use those parts as a seasoning or a healing herb?

How did man figure out what yeast was and then how to use it? Why did he take some seeds and decide to boil them to create coffee or use the seeds of the cocoa plant to make the delicious chocolate we all love and crave?

I am sure that necessity was partially responsible for man's experimenting in trying to find food sources. I am sure that just the fact that man had a mind with which to reason and think spurred him on to "discover" these strange things to be used for food. Or maybe man just had too much time on his hands and got bored and just decided to walk around and experiment with things he found just laying around.

Hmmmmmm, I think I will go for a walk and see if I can find the next food sensation to tickle our pallets.

ANSWER TO LAST TRIVIA QUESTION: Elvis Presley made only one television commercial, what was it? an ad for "Southern Maid Doughnuts" that ran in 1954.
TODAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: What is Patricia McCormick’s claim to fame.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: You read about terrorists; most of them came here legally, but they hung around on these expired visas, some as long as 10-15 years. Now, compare that to Blockbuster; you are two days late with a video and those people are all over you. I think we should put Blockbuster in charge of immigration.