Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Old post

Totally cheating here - this is a post from last year, but it was funny and you guys all weren't hanging around here back then so I thought I'd bring it back to life. A commemorative (sp?) issue - if you will. Enjoy!

The Invention of the Snorkle
I was watching Liv (dear friends daughter) running around with a snorkle in her mouth pretending to be an elephant yesterday and it got me to thinking...(uho). Do you think whoever invented the snorkle did so because they were watching an elephant swimming around and thought - gee, if I had a tube like that I could breath underwater too? Because, if you ever really LOOK at a snorkle - it really does look like an elephant's trunk - except the part that is the end of the elephant nose is the part that we put in our mouth (kind of gross when thought of that way but terribly effective all in all). So now I am going to google this and enlighten you with the results. First off I have discovered my inability to spell - that would be SNORKEL - for all you superior spelling wizards out there (and I would have fixed it but it was kind of funny)... and then I found this... (I soooo want one of these - Happy 30 soon - what a perfect gift to awe me with) Then I found this and promptly stopped looking... you will see why... And so I have learned that googling the most innocent of things is never really safe even though at first - I really thought someone invented a snorkle for a cat and I was intrigued (naive maybe?) anyhoo...What I never found out was who invented the frickin snorkel or how they came up with it. So I have used my powers of deductive reasoning to decide that there is a very good possibility that they came up with this idea while watching an elephant. From this day forward that is what I will choose to beleive. There you have it. End of story. (But please share any ideas you have - unless it is along the lines of that last - shudder - search).

10 comments:

Cornelius T. Fish said...

The pussy snorkel? I that for hunting the deep sea bearded clam?

Verdant Earl said...

Superior spelling wizard checking in. Good job!

Yoga Korunta said...

Happy 30, Elizabeth!

elizabeth said...

green fish - yes. Absolutely.

Earl - kisses

Yoga - huh?

elizabeth said...

Oh yeah - sorry yoga - this was an old post (I've been thirty for a while now)

Dan said...

Froggling will get you into trouble as well. Please read about my search for a perfect litter box for my cat: "Litter Boxes From Hell".

Anonymous said...

An elephant huh?

Hmmm....

*points finger towards head, spins it in a tiny cicrle and says* CUCKOO... ;)

Steve~

Kat said...

I think I know that little Livvy...and after thinking about it again, that last snorkel really is genious!

Anonymous said...

ho.lee.shit. i have seen it all now.

O' Tim said...

My first impression of the PS was that it was for olfactory diversion. You know, for those days when your beloved is um, not feeling her freshest.

As the dude's got a shirt on and the gal's in heels, I'd say perhaps my assessment is correct.