Reader Reply of the Week: Update regarding last week’s question of “Where do babies come from?”
We are grateful to Elsa Woodaman of beautiful downtown Richmond, Virginia, for cogent correction on a related matter:“I must contradict your findings on do-nothing babies. Babies do three very important things – and they even make them rhyme: babies tit, spit and shit. It's practically a full time job.”
Thanks, Elsa, for sharing!
No comment from actual baby.
Yet the question of where babies come from – like really really how does this being come into being – reveals that perhaps nobody knows where anything really really comes from, and the age-old solution to pervasive elemental ignorance is to just appear
busy while constantly worrying about yourself.
However, thanks to our Other Reader Reply of the Week – Jean Prewitt, reporting from Somewhere Out There – at least we can now identify the origins of mud and dust.
Muddy When Wet, Dusty When Dry
(You can say that again.)
SO, now perhaps we can resolve other origin mysteries. Which, obviously, brings us to Neptune, who appeared in Flossophy two weeks ago. (Thank you, Neptune!) Well, Neptune began as Poseidon in Greek mythology. And thanks to Drew Brookie of beautiful Asturias, Spain, we again see that Poseidon has been sighted
recently, emerging from the thrashing sea.
However, staff has determined that Poseidon has also emerged from a small pond about a hundred miles west of the Atlantic Ocean.
Why so angry?
The data is being analyzed in the lab. Staff will first determine if dust and mud derive from multiple origin points. Then we’ll work on Poseidon and babies. And if anyone knows where anything
came from, now would be a propitious time to spit it out.
Fictionary Friday: Words You Need. Whether you know it or not.
Simplology(simm plah lo gee) Noun: The study of why everything is so freaking complicated.
In a sentence:Babies know where they come from until simplology syndrome sets in, and then everything gets all botched up.
Wikipedia Friday Favorite: In honor of the intersection of curiosity and logarithmically expanding human knowledge, we offer a weekly favorite obscure Wikipedia page.
Fizzdom Friday: from our collection of favorite quotes.
Thanks to staff this week, in rare moments of clarity down in the lab:
“Wet garbage is a lot funnier than dry garbage.” &
“It’s all due to the effect or the cause, whichever came first.”
Friday Fluff:
The news has been a little goofy lately, so in honor of our Flossophical roots, we hereby offer a bit of uplift to anyone overburdened by the badness of it all. Here’s a guy who did some goodness:
