Did you see the article about the mammoth meatball? I don’t mean it was huge, though it was — about the size of a soccer ball. It was made of mammoth meat. By mammoth I mean a wooly mammoth. If you’re a wooly mammoth, your mama was an elephant, and…
Author: Wendy Herrmann Smith
Sheep
Halloween just passed, but it’s not too late to talk about scary things. Like sheep. You think I’m kidding? Have you tried to handle a full-grown sheep? I’m on Twitter now and then. Okay, multiple times a day. A woman on Twitter asked her friends to tell something unusual about…
Iguanas
It’s not every day you see a live animal in the grocery store. In the meat department, the butcher offers quite a few expired animals. By expired, I mean dead. Beef cattle, chickens, lambs. Who eats lamb? I can’t bring myself to eat what used to be the little critter…
Corvette
Today’s topic is the Corvette. On a recent vacation to Tennessee, we took at side trip north to Bowling Green, Kentucky, home of the National Corvette Museum. The museum opened in 1994 to celebrate the Corvette and educate the public about a very expensive car. Corvettes are beautiful, powerful machines,…
Dental Hygiene
Imagine a world where you get paid to go to the dentist. In this fantasy, a fully-trained hygienist hands you cash if you let her work on your teeth. And all those rules about brushing and flossing? Flush them. “Here, suck on this lollipop for an hour at bedtime,” the…