07-03-2018, 02:46 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Yes indeed, nothing like a drop of the crayter to buck you up “throw away your pills, it’ll cure all ills”
Speaking of ills.
It always amazes me when I see ads for germ killing products that say “It kills 99% of all household germs” why they say that I’ll never know, it’s actually self defeating when you think of it.
Germs/bacteria are a million times better at breeding than rabbits, they come by the billions, but just take a tiny fraction, say 1,000 germs are on the tip of your index finger, you wash your hands in disinfectant and 99% of the weakest germs are massacred, fair enough, only trouble is that leaves the healthiest and strongest germs still on your finger. You put your finger into your mouth to check out a tooth or to rub your gums and you deposit all these fit as a fiddle little lads and lassies into the ideal breeding grounds, the constantly warm mouth. Before you can say Jack Robinson there’s millions of the happy creatures playing havoc inside your mouth, sore throats, gumboils, cold sores, and what have you appear, all because of that 1% that got away, you probably would have been better off with the 99% of weaklings.
But lets not worry about that, what the eye doesn’t see the heart doesn’t grieve for, Howard Hughes knew all this stuff and we don’t want to end up like him do we? It all began when he stopped shaking hands with folks.
Here’s a bar of a tune dear old Howard would have loved.
“Shake hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy
And here is your sister, Kate
And there's the girl you used to swing
Down by the garden gate
Shake hands with all of the neighbours
And kiss the colleens all
You're as welcome as the flowers in May
To dear old Donegal”
Bing Crosby-Dear old Donegal.