(yeah I quoted my own about page, but it was almost divinely inspired lol)

So once a few years ago I remember hearing in church that there was a kid in one of the younger childrens’ program that had lethal allergies to peanuts. I distinctly remember thinking “wow, that sucks a shitload”, “man, I love it when I chew up a bunch of peanuts and it’s like I made my own peanut butter in my mouth”, and “wait…how do they find out a kid is LETHALLY allergic to peanuts?”

How do they? I mean, if they’re going to DIE when they’re exposed to it, then clearly they were never exposed to it, but as far as I know, you don’t usually get an allergy test when you’re born, and its not like they do any screening for it when you’re born…or do they? I tried to look this up on wikipedia, but I was rebuffed by the fact that doing keyword finds for lethal on the allergy pages wasn’t landing any hits, so I gave up. But do allergies like this progress to the point where doctors realize it must be lethal or what? Or was it that mommy just happened to have an epi-pen (random aside: I always thought there was a y in epinephrine) and well…stabbed her baby as it was having an allergic reaction? I mean, the kid was in the Mustard Seed program…for really freaking little kids. I just don’t know how it works.

On a freaking inane tangent, I wrote this post like 3 weeks ago, but felt it was too short to actually post, and I still do, but not as much. That actually wasn’t the tangent, I forgot I wrote the sentence right before it. Whenever I change topics my default sentence is “on a different note”, so I came back to change it to something a lot more fitting, and then kept reading. But I’m not going to edit that sentence out and I’m going to keep this sentence. I just wanted it to be said…oversaid.
Alright, I’m going to instead, ask about chicken eggs (this is clearly the far more inane tangent). Chicken eggs are pretty big compared to chickens, and of course, in the supermarkets they’re always dry. Now, babies on the other hand are born oozing in all sorts of primordial ectoplasmic jargonistic soupy juices. So…I’m pretty sure those eggs are not dry when they’re laid, but that means that the nasty muck must be dried off onto the chicken. Which means they are officially filthier beasts than pigs. Now I do try to answer my blog questions, just not very hard because they’re generally not important questions at all, but my friend Slugman (who drew the pirate fleet pigs n’ BLANET picture) just happens to have gotten a job as a chicken farmer (he farms chickens?), or chickenherder or whatever. The point is that he didn’t know. So once again, I have no answer to my question. Blame him for being inadequate and less than a man.

EDIT:

another illustration from Slug, soon we can publish one of those “Great Illustrated Classics”, except we’ll have to lose the Great and the Classics XD
click thumb to make the image grow!! (”..make my monster grow!” Power Rangers anyone?)
(and Slug, I was trying to host both pic and thumb on my file space, but the image corrupted…again lol. And I chose a kinda bad choice for a thumb, if you have a better idea send it along :o. btw, the tail is snazzy!)

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