From SPAM to POPEYE
I heard or read that 50% of Web logs are SPAM. I believe that. The origin of the word applied to computers is from some fraternity gag and you have to join the 'Spam Club' to find out more. I always thought it otherwise just meant 'spiced ham' Well I really don't care about giving my identity to a Spam Club so that's it on the origin of the word. I am not, a Spammer! Oh, but I'll sell you all the Spam you want--a truckload, freight car load, a train load--you name it.
I used to like Spam and mustard sandwiches. Then one day I decided to fry up a batch for breakfast. It was tasty, I thought--and I was sick all day. That's the last time I ate Spam. A loooong time ago.
I always figured it was Spam, and Camel and Lucky Strike cigarettes that got us through W.W.II. If you're very hungry in battle, a can of Spam--plenty of fat, meat, and whatever else is in the stuff, followed by a strong cigarette hit the spot.
While on the topic I should mention that the U.S. Government suggests meals with 30% calories from fat. According to an inventor, Raymond Kurzwell, who amazed the world by inventing a machine that reads ordinary books for blind persons. The prototype is slow--but aren't all prototypes deficient in a lot of ways? I don't know how it works and am not going to pursue it. It must be all over the internet. If you find Kurzwell's machine you may also find he is ideas about that 30% fat figure. He says NO! It should be 10% ! He went on such a diet, though not very fat. He visited his doctor who was perplexed by the changes in his physiology. Kurzwell explained and the doctor went on the same diet with the same results. Another case: Never believe what the government says--for some reason they're trying to sell fat.
Along the same lines Americans are lead to the impression that you need food from four basic groups The milk group, the grain group, the vegetable group and the meat group. This is completely false, and downright misleading, and probably supported by producers in these groups. Although no single group can fulfill dietary needs, a pair can do quite nicely--providing one of the pair is not from the vegetable group. No Vitamin B12.
The role of vegetables has long been overestimated. See "Anatomy & Physiology," by Frederic Martini, an advanced high school text book.
The above is all serious--the following is a joke (but he was invented in Miami, and it is a myth that spinach is very good for you, when it is of ordinary vegetable value.) Spinach growers,of course, loved "Popeye." But Popeye had diseases,--severe glaucoma and those swollen forearms, mistaken for muscle. Popeye lived a checkered life. He was born in Miami in a plain brick building that is still there. You can visit Popeye's birth place anytime. Early on he joined the Navy. He didn't get much of a kick out of Norfolk (often referred to as 'Nofuck.' by the Navy, probably because the Norfolk Naval Base is the largest Navy Base in the world and is the town. There are very few girls around.) But he really had a good time in Halifax, Nova Scotia--the Navy's favorite port of call--with thousands and thousands of prostitutes all over. There he met Olive. It is pretty obvious that she was a hooker and they had "Swee'pea" together. And that thing Swee'pea wears is just to cover the disease or diseases he picked up from Popeye or others before, not a soggy pajama thing.
PS: BULLETIN: Beware of spinach and widespread Escherichia coli O157:H7! 9/23/06--until further notice.
I used to like Spam and mustard sandwiches. Then one day I decided to fry up a batch for breakfast. It was tasty, I thought--and I was sick all day. That's the last time I ate Spam. A loooong time ago.
I always figured it was Spam, and Camel and Lucky Strike cigarettes that got us through W.W.II. If you're very hungry in battle, a can of Spam--plenty of fat, meat, and whatever else is in the stuff, followed by a strong cigarette hit the spot.
While on the topic I should mention that the U.S. Government suggests meals with 30% calories from fat. According to an inventor, Raymond Kurzwell, who amazed the world by inventing a machine that reads ordinary books for blind persons. The prototype is slow--but aren't all prototypes deficient in a lot of ways? I don't know how it works and am not going to pursue it. It must be all over the internet. If you find Kurzwell's machine you may also find he is ideas about that 30% fat figure. He says NO! It should be 10% ! He went on such a diet, though not very fat. He visited his doctor who was perplexed by the changes in his physiology. Kurzwell explained and the doctor went on the same diet with the same results. Another case: Never believe what the government says--for some reason they're trying to sell fat.
Along the same lines Americans are lead to the impression that you need food from four basic groups The milk group, the grain group, the vegetable group and the meat group. This is completely false, and downright misleading, and probably supported by producers in these groups. Although no single group can fulfill dietary needs, a pair can do quite nicely--providing one of the pair is not from the vegetable group. No Vitamin B12.
The role of vegetables has long been overestimated. See "Anatomy & Physiology," by Frederic Martini, an advanced high school text book.
The above is all serious--the following is a joke (but he was invented in Miami, and it is a myth that spinach is very good for you, when it is of ordinary vegetable value.) Spinach growers,of course, loved "Popeye." But Popeye had diseases,--severe glaucoma and those swollen forearms, mistaken for muscle. Popeye lived a checkered life. He was born in Miami in a plain brick building that is still there. You can visit Popeye's birth place anytime. Early on he joined the Navy. He didn't get much of a kick out of Norfolk (often referred to as 'Nofuck.' by the Navy, probably because the Norfolk Naval Base is the largest Navy Base in the world and is the town. There are very few girls around.) But he really had a good time in Halifax, Nova Scotia--the Navy's favorite port of call--with thousands and thousands of prostitutes all over. There he met Olive. It is pretty obvious that she was a hooker and they had "Swee'pea" together. And that thing Swee'pea wears is just to cover the disease or diseases he picked up from Popeye or others before, not a soggy pajama thing.
PS: BULLETIN: Beware of spinach and widespread Escherichia coli O157:H7! 9/23/06--until further notice.
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