It's Science!

I won't even pretend that these are my original thoughts, but I liked them enough that I thought they deserved to be posted here in perpetuity . . . or at least for a couple weeks.
So CBS has this show on now called "How I Met Your Mother" with Neil Patrick Harris--most of us still know him only as Doogie Howser. Anyway, his character from the show has a blog on CBS site that proposes that women and fish are alike in 24 important ways. Those 24 common characteristics are as follows:

1. Both attracted to shiny objects
2. More fun to catch while drinking
3. Neither travel well
4. There's others in the sea and/or bar
5. Three words: catch and release
6. Both travel in protective groups
7. Small bladders
8. The deeper you go the scarier they get
9. Their weight largely determines their value
10. [I don't know on this one, something about crabs]
11. They get all ornery if you try to grab their tail
12. Bears will eat either of them
13. Sometimes I like'em wild, sometimes I like'em farm-raised
14. You must document great catches, otherwise no one will believe you--video preferred
15. Easier to reel in if you let them tire themselves out first
16. Seen the movie Splash--case closed
17. Cold blooded
18. Neither can operate a vehicle
19. They both eat things
20. The harder they shake their tale, the farther they'll go in life
21. Scales are important to both of them
22. They never have to buy drinks
23. Ummm. . . eggs? Duh
24. Can hook either with a great line
    

Yeah, they're Kosher

So recently I've been on this total Good & Plenty kick. It's been years since I've eaten these delectable little pieces of confectionary artistry. There may well have been brief moments over the last 14 or 15 years where I saw this simple, yet tasteful purple package on a candy shelf somewhere and thought to myself that the contents might provide a delicious little treat. But it was never enough of an urge to convince me to take the package to the register and make a purchase. Yet somehow after trying a couple that were offered to me by my good friend, Marcus, I can't get enough of these things. I've made multiple purchases, am eating some right now, and am getting quite anxious about the moment when I pop the last of these pill-shaped licorice bites into my mouth from the box I am currently consuming. I'm even starting to feel quite sick, and yet I just keep popping and chewing.
And what color are the non-white ones anyway? Not quite pink. Not quite purple. Purk? Pinkle? Mauve?
I'm down to like 4 left . . . make that two.
Of the pinkle variety.
Oh man, I gotta go to the store

Jurisprude

n. 1. A person who makes a pretentious display of legal knowledge or who is overzealous about the importance of legal doctrine.

Institutional Delilah

For an educational institution with such a strong religious atmosphere, you would think there would be more tolerance and acceptance of someone who wanted unparalleled strength and power by not cutting their hair.
It's just your ordinary, everyday, run-of-the-mill Nazarite vow. Gosh!