I’ve been hearing a lot of people talk about some Super Bowl game today…  Is it something going on at the bowling alley?  I don’t know…  But if it’s some special bowling thing, like where you see how many pins you can knock down in 30 minutes, then your partner bowls and you see how many nachos you can eat in 30 minutes, then you keep switching, that would be pretty cool.

Or the Super Bowl could be one of those “never-ending pasta bowls” I’ve heard advertised by Olive Garden.  That could be considered a “super bowl”.  I’m all about all-you-can-eat!

Or maybe it’s referring to this show I saw part of this afternoon, called Puppy Bowl III.  It was in some sort of stadium, with green astroturf and white parallel lines painted on it.  There were various toys, and the puppies would run around, chase each other and even tackle each other.  Sometimes a man in a zebra-looking outfit would come out, blow a whistle, and say something like “illegal down” when one of the puppies pooped on the field.  It was pretty entertaining.  They also had a kitty half-time show, where they brought out this elaborate stage with lots of props.  And there were lots of people cheering.  But they didn’t call it the “Super Bowl”, so perhaps that isn’t what all the hoopla is about.  (BTW, Animal Planet has some video clips online if you want to check it out.)

I heard that some people might even skip Sunday night church to see this big game.  So it must be something really important.  I don’t know of any game that would make me skip church, so I’m feeling discombobulated about what it could be.  I just don’t know…

Oh, well…  In a way I feel like I’m missing out, since so many people are talking about it, but it can’t be better than service at church tonight.  So I’ll just have to miss this big game, whatever it is.

(Yes, I’m being somewhat facetious, if you couldn’t tell.  Except for the part about church service being better — that’s true.  And the idea of unlimited nachos and bowling sounds pretty good, too.  But not during church…)

This past Wednesday it started snowing while we were at work, so naturally everyone gathered at the window to watch it.  (We don’t get a lot of snow here in central Arkansas.)  We talked about building snowmen and such, and one woman said she’s scared of snowmen.  Of course someone asked why, because that’s not normal.  She said when she was a kid, there would be snowmen that started melting and looking all hideous, and so she’s bothered by them to this day.  And she’s over 30…

Does anyone have any advice for this poor woman?  She needs help.

There’s a group of very “religious” people out there who are considered Christian fundamentalists, who take things way to the extreme.  They think the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible is the only one that is valid.  They often put down modern-sounding music in the church, saying only old hymns are God’s music.  Some of them think if something is fun, it must be “of the devil” and thus will send you to Hell.  So obviously these people are way behind in technology.  Someone has now invented a product to compete with the iPod (since they can’t use them).  It’s called the ePhod.

Here’s the link : Fundamentalists Hope New “ePhod” Will Be a Hit

(Yes, this is a parody.  No need to get all offended.)

There’s a chance of snow today!  Here in central Arkansas, this is big news.  We get very little snow each year — sometimes no accumulation, sometimes a few inches.  I suspect the grocery stores are already out of bread and milk, even though it’s still a few hours until the precipitation is supposed to start.  (That’s just how things work here; people stock up like we’re having a blizzard that’ll keep us home for weeks.)  The forecast is mostly for a “wintry mix” with some potential snow.

Anyway, on to the randomness related to this event.  I asked our resident randomness expert, Turtle Dundee, for his forecast on the upcoming inclement weather situation, and he had a very original response :

My forecast, perhaps a bit on the optimistic side, is for an enormous blizzard with 27 and a half feet of snow.  This blizzard will be so intense that it will create small glaciers and miniature wooly mammoths, which will taste like chicken.

Then our other writer continued that flow of randomness even further :

Ooh yeah… and on top of that the small glaciers will carve a small to medium crevice in my back yard which I will proclaim as the “diminutive canyon”.  People will come from far and wide to pay admission for the chance to see and/or pee in it. We can serve lemonade and wooly mammoth on a stick!

I don’t think I care too much about peeing in a canyon, but the idea of wooly mammoth on a stick does sound interesting…