Just thinkin' this morning...

It's a "vewy, vewy, qwuiet" week in the Carolina weather world. Wascally Wabbits and other fauna have stepped up their activity, including their appetites. Bird seed is disappearing at an increased rate, though I suspect a nightly opposum is helping Hoover it out...at least it's a possumbility.

And with very little weather facts and trivia to jumpstart my forecast day, I naturally let my mind wander down the free-form path of conscious streaming, which is more fun than Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Some things had come across my e-desk recently that bear pondering...

Things that make you go "hmmmmmm..."

Take oils, for instance. Corn oil is made from corn. Vegetable oil is made from vegetables. Almond oil is extracted from, you guessed it, almonds. So where does Baby Oil come from?

Why do we all push an elevator button that is already lit?

If "Jimmy cracks corn" and nobody cares, why is there a song about him?

If you're feeling blue, should you start breathing again?

Why is it in this age of a gazillion camcorders that we're not seeing new, better footage of UFO's?

If you think about it, life is sexually transmitted.

Why should you take life seriously? You won't get out alive, anyway.

Do people that eat natural foods die from natural causes?

Time for yard work to begin. Clean out those beds...if you can't decide if something is a weed or a valuable flower, go ahead and pull it up - if it easily comes up, it's not a weed.

The quickest way to find something is to go buy a replacement.

Why is it one match starts a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to light a campfire?

If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

Per Disney, why does Goofy walk on two legs and Pluto walk on all four? Aren't they both dogs?

If Wiley E. Coyote had the financial wherewithall to buy that boatload of stuff from Acme, couldn't he just have gone out and bought his dinner instead?

Ever notice when some people need to know the time they tap on their wrist? It's probably a good thing they don't do a similar thing when they have to go to the bathroom.

Why is it when a man makes lewd remarks to a woman it's sexual harassment, but when a woman talks lewd to a man it's $4.99 a minute?

If you give someone a penny for their thoughts, why do they get to put in their two cents worth in return?

Can someone driving a 'loaded' hearse use the HOV lane on the interstate?

Why do doctors call their work 'practice'?

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing? And I still marvel over the first time I saw braille on a drive-through ATM...

We would do well to learn a valuable lesson from the weather: it totally ignores criticism.