From my archives

Before I get to my archive entries, let's try a couple of experiments related to the study of EDP.

01.  1.Count out loud to twenty.

2.  Now, count backwards from twenty to one.

3.  Now name a vegetable.

Did you say "carrot?"  If so, go to the end to see why.

 02.  1.  Name a country whose name starts with a "D."

2.  Name an animal that begins with the last letter of that country's name.

3.  Name a color that begins with the last letter of the animal's name.

Is your answer "orange?"

Check it out at the end.

The Great Courses Professor says that there is a very small possibility that ESP exists.

From my Archives

Free Market

Neighbors got upset when a Utah boy set up a sidewalk stand with a sign that read "Ice Cold Beer."

The 11-year-old entrepreneur showed the cops that he was selling root beer.  He had written "Root Beer" in very small letters over his other sign.

This enterprising young man made a lot of money that summer.

Hoppy Holy Water

Some enterprising Milwaukee nuns (School Sisters of Saint Francis) opened a beer garden to raise money for clean water projects in Peru and India.

Among their top sellers was a brew named "Ale Mary."

Be fruitful

Religious scholars have been spending long hours debating over the type of fruit offered in the Garden of Eden.  It might have even been a pomegranate.

The Hebrew Bible uses the generic term peri, which rabbinic scholars have said could be used to describe a fig, a grape, a pomegranate an apricot, "or even wheat."

An apple a day ...

Historians describe a former fruitful time as "the golden age of pomology." 

During the19th century, there were about 14,000 apple varieties across the United States.  Today, only around 100 varieties of apples are commercially grown.

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Info about the two tests at the beginning of this blog:

01.  If you answered "carrot," you were aligned with 99% of the American population, whether you counted out loud or not.

02.  You probably answered "orange," because there are not many countries with names starting with "D," so Denmark pops up in our mind.  

Denmark ends with "K" and that triggers "Kangaroo."

Ending "O" triggers "orange."

Tricky? 

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