Smells Funny

That says a lot about you...

Activia is a yogurt, which is specially formulated to "regulate your digestive system by helping reduce long intestinal transit time."  Their words, not mine.  According to Dannon, "Activia with Bifidus Regularis is scientifically proven to help with slow intestinal transit when eaten daily for two weeks, as part of a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle."  This is all fine and good.  If you need to speed things up a little, a couple of weeks of Activia may help do the trick.  

So I was sitting in a meeting at work last week and I look across the table and I see one of my co-workers eating Activia.  I have to admit I was a little grossed out.  I know, I know - I can already hear my mother saying "oh, grow up Ed."  But seriously, would you drink your metamucil at work while your co-workers are sitting around?  Do I really want to know who at work is having "slow intestinal transit"?

The Book of Questions

A long time ago, Dede bought "The Book of Questions."  It's a popular book, so you may have a copy.  If you haven't heard of it, the book contains 200+ questions which are "too bold, too embarrassing, or just too difficult to ask by yourself."  Dede likes to bring it along when we travel and at one point I believe the book was a fixture in her purse.  The back cover of the book states that the questions may be used as a tool for "self discovery, or as a provocative way to stimulate conversation."  Dede liked to use the book as a fight starter.  I don't believe this was intentional, but it seemed every time this book came out a fight started.  First there was the fight with our friend Jason over question #90 - "If you could choose the sex and physical appearance of your soon-to-be born child, would you do it?."  Jason indicated that yes, he would choose the sex, and he would pick another boy (he already had two).  He said he didn't want a girl, because he would always worry about a girl growing up in todays world.  Dede didn't like that answer.  For the next hour a debate ensued that almost ended the friendship.  Then there was the fight with me on question #15 "Whom do you admire most?  In what way does this person inspire you?"  My response was "I don't admire anyone, I am happy being me."  She thought that was a self-centered response.  She then started throwing out the names of individuals that could be admired.  I revolted when she threw out Oprah.

In the spirit of not having a lot to say this evening (outside of making fun of my wife in the prior two paragraphs), I thought I would throw out a question from the book and see if there are any interesting comments.  This could fail miserably, as there are only a handful of readers for this blog and even fewer who will comment, but I am going to give it a go.  I thought about asking question #133 "Have you had satisfying sex within the last three months?" but my parents read this blog and quite honestly I don't care to know their answer.  In addition, Dede reads this blog and I am not sure I want to know her answer either.

So here is the question:

Question #25 "For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling of its wings?  What about stepping on a cockroach?"

Ed