Sunday bonding activity

Game name: Popcorn wars

Players: 2+

Instructions:
1. Take five randomly-chosen popped kernals of microwaved popcorn and place them in hand. [Cheat: look for small, dense pieces of popcorn in an effort to create a more uniformly aerodynamic popcorn flying arc.]

2. Have a judge signal a start to the competition.

3. Compete to determine who can most quickly dispose of said popcorn by throwing it up and catching it in your mouth, one piece at a time.

I came. I played. I lost.

Ice cream and poo

So everyone seems to start their blog with some post about why they decided to blog. I, on the other hand, have decided to provide my limited readership with a random entertaining story of the day, which I dedicate to Wendy for providing soundbytes, and L and EP for providing the motivation to begin down this blogging journey.

A great student of psychology (we'll call him neophyte or "N" for short) once presented the following:

N: Tell me the top three characteristics you're looking for in someone that you'd be interested in dating or marrying.

C: Hmm. That's a tough one... I'd say... spiritually grounded and everything that goes along with that, confident but humble, and... intelligent.

N: Ok. Say you had two guys that possessed those three characteristics equally. How would you discriminate between the two?

C: In that case, I'd probably choose the one I'm more attracted to.

Neophyte then went on to explain the following: Those first three characteristics aren't really important to you. You merely say them because that's what you want people to think you want, or because that's what society makes you feel like you should say. The most important thing to you is the 4th characteristic, as that is the one characteristic you'd use to discriminate between the two potential suitors.

Now, aside from the clear and convincing argument that an individual without the first three characteristics wouldn't have a chance, let us analyze this theory by using a suitable analogy.

Say you have an ice cream sundae with a cherry on top. The ice cream sundae by itself (we'll call that the three characteristics), is great. Arguably, the sundae with the cherry (4th characteristic) would be better than the sundae sans cherry. But, the ice cream itself is still pretty nice.

Alternatively, say you have a big pile of poo with a cherry on top. If you are given the choice between the big pile of poo with a cherry, or the ice cream sundae with no cherry, which one would you choose? I choose the sundae.

So, my message to my reader[s] is the following: N, feel free to eat your poo. I, on the other hand, will enjoy my sundae.