What would happen if.... (9/19 edition)

...I ordered the kid's meal for myself at my cousin's wedding next month? Actually, that is what I've done. It was either beef tenderloin (I hate beef when it's baked), Chicken Oscar (I "just say no" to stuff with chives in it), the vegetarian entree (yeah, right!), or the kid's meal (chicken fingers and fries!). This didn't take much thought. My mom said my aunt was going to call me and tell me I couldn't do it at first. I guess that if you order a kid's meal, it's one less person that they charge you for at the open bar. Now that wouldn't be fair...."you can have the kid's meal, Brian, but you'll be chasing it down with chocolate milk all afternoon."

I'm sure the folks who designed the World Wide Web didn't INTEND to choose the one polysyllabic letter in the alphabet for its abbreviation. There's no good way to say WWW really fast. The PBS show "Zoom" (2000s version) referred to it as "triple-W", but that's still a mouthful. Even one W is a mouthful, let alone three.

There ought to be a minimum slicing setting for cheese at the supermarket. I like my ham really thinly sliced. But cheese HAS to have some minimum thickness -- maybe an eighth of an inch? Because what good is it, if the cheese is so thinly sliced that it sticks to itself? I had to try to pry the slices apart with a sharp knife.

My younger daughter followed the older into the bathroom at a restaurant last weekend. Apparently girls learn early to go in pairs or something.

I started to watch Hitchock's movie Rope the other night....I've already seen it, and it's good. It seems impressive that the entire movie plays out as one very long scene -- there are no changes in the angle to "camera two". Of course, it could also be seen as just a fancy videotaping of a live play, in that regard, too. (That at least makes the memorization of such a long stretch of lines only slightly less impressive.)

When playing Scrabble under various influences (coconut rum, for instance), it's perfectly acceptable to play "PQRSTU" as a word. Any five-or-more consecutive letters of the alphabet, actually, are allowed, I believe. In fact, the same board also had "VWXYZ". Yes, it was on the triple word score, but the aforementioned influences preclude the actual tallying of points.

Vanilla ice cream is as popular as it is, in my opinion, only because it's pretty much white and "plain" looking. If vanilla ice cream were blue, or brown, it would sell much less. But because it looks natural, it's a popular flavor. I'm not playing the race card on this.

Was the Legion of Doom modeled after the Superdome amidst the Louisiana swamps?

If you carve your name in a pumpkin, you have to be wary of any letters that have holes in them. For instance, and "o" won't look like an o without some creative carving, as it would just be a hole.

In college on a calculus exam, I had to draw a picture of a duck. And then for more points, compute some line integral around the duck. This required me to erase the eyeball inside the duck I had drawn, because, of course, this prevents the line integral from automatically being equal to zero.

I saw a paperback version of the first Harry Potter book last night, and was stunned by how skinny it seemed. I thought perhaps it'd been divided into smaller books (part 1, part 2, etc....).