I wonder, just who thought that was a good idea

[Kymberley]

Do you ever find yourself wondering about things that you take for granted in your daily life? Not personal or emotional things, I am talking things as trivial as straws, ice, whipped cream.

Obviously I have way too many blank recesses in my mind to ponder this stuff. But am I the only one who wonders are such silly things?

Way too many times, I find myself wondering about such crap as who was the first person to decide to put ice in a drink. What year was it? How did they get the ice? Where was the first ice cube put into a glass of ice tea?

How about this one. I am standing at Starbucks waiting for my Caramel Frap when it hits me. Whipped cream; CO2 cartridges used in the cannisters make the cream whipped. (Lucky cream)
So just who was the genious that figured that chemical reaction out? What in the hell were they experimenting with when they came across that one.

Straws? Were they invented by men to teach ladies how to give great blow jobs? When was the first straw used? Was it with the ice tea and the first ice cube?

So what are things you ponder when your mind begins to wander?


PS. If anyone can answer mine, I would finally be able to wonder about other nonsensical things.

 

[SweetCherry]

Kymberley, I think you have WAY too much free time on your hands.

 

[Purple Haze]

I want to know who was the first person to drink milk from a cow.

How do you make something like that catch on?

 

[MacCortz]

Hi Kym,

I think most of us think of more practicle things...of family, of friends, of love, of life and of sex and good things.

which came first the chicken or the chicken hawk?

 

[Kymberley]

OH Sweetcherry

I do agree. I just find myself wondering the weirdest stuff when I am out driving alone. I work in the middle of the night, and alot of my work is just driving around in residential neighborhoods where I am the only one on the road.

I am off jamming to Alien Ant Farm or Creed and then all of a sudden I take a drink of my Frap and I am wondering who invented a straw.

 

[Barb Dwyer]

So just who was the genious that figured that chemical reaction out? What in the hell were they experimenting with when they came across that one.

1) Al Gore
2) LSD

Straws? Were they invented by men to teach ladies how to give great blow jobs? When was the first straw used? Was it with the ice tea and the first ice cube?

1) Yes
2) Adam fashioned one for Eve using the grass and weeds in the Garden of Eden
3) I believe they used it for apple juice

I actually looked it up on the internet but it was pretty boring. Better to keep it in your imagination.

Here is what I ponder:

When will Hell really freeze over?
Why do birds suddenly appear?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?
Who put the ram in the ram-a-lama-ding dong?

 

[Kymberley]

Hi Kym,

I think most of us think of more practicle things...of family, of friends, of love, of life and of sex and good things.

which came first the chicken or the chicken hawk?

Don't read more into that statement about me that what I wrote. Stick around long enough or read more about me before assuming that I don't think about my family all that much.

I am a very proud mother who has struggled to keep my kids heathly, happy, and just as proud of me as I am of them.

I was talking about those silly thoughts that pop into your head for absolutely no reason.

If you don't have those, I pity you to have all the knowledge of the encylopedia brittanica stored in your brain to the point that you have absolutely nothing left to learn in life.

I do believe the chicken came first. The ordinary hawks living near a farm just found that chicken were easy prey, thus changing their breed name to chicken hawk, forming a union devoted to the attack, dismemberment and eating of all chickens.

Had there been no chickens, they might have become the pidgeon hawks instead.

 

[Kymberley]

I want to know who was the first person to drink milk from a cow.

How do you make something like that catch on?

Now that is a visual I just don't think I needed. Can you just see Billy Bob out shoveling shit in a barn and getting thirsty.

Poor Bessy, I sure hope he took his teeth out before he started sucking that teet.

 

[MissTaken]

Hi Kym,

I think most of us think of more practicle things...of family, of friends, of love, of life and of sex and good things.

which came first the chicken or the chicken hawk?

Hmmm I would guess that I am not one of "most of us."

My mind wanders into strange areas as well:

"How the fuck did they come up with all that moon and star stuff with astrology when they didn't have the super duper x treme telescope with infrared lens?" (I am not mocking astrology.)

"How does the internet work?" The idea of all these messages and millions of people communicating as we do is absolutely beyond me. I do not have a scientific mind. After all, I am the idiot who sent the mailer-daemon a thank you note.

No! Seriously! Day 1 Week 1 on the net.

"Who invented paper cups and did they ever get decent credit for it? " Yes. Some questions can be answered, but....as the mind wanders....

 

[Kymberley]

Hmmm I would guess that I am not one of "most of us."

My mind wanders into strange areas as well:


"How does the internet work?" The idea of all these messages and millions of people communicating as we do is absolutely beyond me. I do not have a scientific mind. After all, I am the idiot who sent the mailer-daemon a thank you note.

No! Seriously! Day 1 Week 1 on the net.

I just adore you. You always make me smile. I love that thought.

 

[LRC]

Something I often wondered many times (especially at 3am) .......

What did they do before baby wipes ?

 

[modest mouse]

who came up with buttons?...zippers?

who first thought a wolf would make a good pet?(I'd like to thank him/her for my dog)

who first put a handle on a cup, thus allowing for coffee cups?

speaking of coffee, who first brewed this wonderful concoction?

 

[LukkyKnight]

They got the first ice cube from the first ice-cube tray.





My favorite to ponder is moving the toilet indoors. Can't you imagine trying to sell that idea?

"Excuse me? You want to put it where? Riiiiiiight. Well, you go right ahead, college-boy, but not in my house you won't. Crap, son, have you got no nose or what? Indoor plumbing? You went off to school and came up with this shit?"

 

[MissTaken]

They got the first ice cube from the first ice-cube tray.





My favorite to ponder is moving the toilet indoors. Can't you imagine trying to sell that idea?

"Excuse me? You want to put it where? Riiiiiiight. Well, you go right ahead, college-boy, but not in my house you won't. Crap, son, have you got no nose or what? Indoor plumbing? You went off to school and came up with this shit?"

OH MY GOD!!!!

Laughing like a crazy lady!!!

You are good...

 

[MissTaken]

I just adore you. You always make me smile. I love that thought.

Glad to oblige!

So why is his name daemon?

Why not demon?
or Damen?
or even Damian?

Hmmmmmm

 

[cymbidia]

I teach botany...

speaking of coffee, who first brewed this wonderful concoction?

Coffee makes up the genus Coffea of the family Rubiaceae. Arabian coffee is classified as Coffea Arabica, Robusta coffee as Coffea Canephora, and Liberian coffee as Coffea Liberica.

Botanical evidence indicates that Coffea Arabica originated on the plateaus of central Ethiopia, several thousand feet above sea level.

According to the Kaldi Coffee Legend, coffee is said to have been first discovered when a goat-herd in Abysinia, while basking in the sun, observed his goats dancing on their hind legs after eating some red berries. He tasted the berries and his sleepy eyes opened. He took some to the village and everybody also liked it, as it kept them awake during their prayers.

Initially, coffee was brewed from green, unroasted beans to yield a tea-like beverage. By the late 13th century, Arabians roasted and ground coffee before brewing it. Ironically, coffee was usually brewed by Arabian men, and then drunk by Arabian women to alleviate menstrual discomforts.

Coffee cultivation was rare until the 15th and 16th centuries, when extensive planting of the trees occurred in the Yemen region of Arabia. From Yemen the use of coffee beans spread throughout the Arabian peninsula and later via the Othman Empire to Turkey. At that time, coffee was used for it's medicinal properties and as a ritual drink. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, opened in Constantinople in 1475.



My question:
How hungry was the first person who decided that artichokes looked like some good eating?

Crabs, too.

 

[modest mouse]

Re: I teach botany...

[B Ironically, coffee was usually brewed by Arabian men, and then drunk by Arabian women to alleviate menstrual discomforts.
[/B]

I would almost think it might inflame the symptoms, though I suppose the diuretic properties would help with water retention.

Cym...thanks for the answer. Nothing like being thorough. As much coffee as I drink I never looked into the history much, shame on me. I took for granted that the beans were always roasted.

I will be toasting the goat herder tomorrow morning.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Re: I teach botany...

My question:
How hungry was the first person who decided that artichokes looked like some good eating?

Crabs, too.

The first crabs that decided that artichokes looked like some good eating were not actually hungry, they were blinded by a flash brighter than the sun when a meteorite struck the planet approximately 65 million years ago.

The first person is thought to have been "not hungry enough that a crab looked like food."

 

[Calamity Jane]

I wanna know who dug up the first potato. Who dug this ugly, dirty thing out of the ground and said... "hey, do you have any idea what this IS? this is the most amazing thing! we can fry this, boil it, mash it, roast it, bake it, and when it rots, we can drink the juice!"

 

[Kymberley]

whew

So it ain't just me wondering crazy stuff.

PCG, whoda thunk it about that damned spud?