That's what killed the cat. But since satisfaction brought it back I decidely have continued to be curious. On further investigating some inane news (mind you this is dangerous territory in itself) I discovered that the world has been stuck with a title song from the album CURIOSITY by Carly Rae Jepsen as top of the charts at number 1.
Of course I refer to 'Call Me Maybe'. I also then on an unrelated encounter found that NASA had named their MARS rover with the same name - Curiosity. That peaked mine. Why would that be?
Curious coincidence? So I decided to let the cat out of the bag (to see if it gets killed). I suspect that NASA actually bought the rights to play that song to the aliens out there to indicate what we as a species have achieved and are up to these days.
So as Curiosity sits and samples mud from MARS its also playing 'Call Me Maybe' to unsuspecting alien ships that troll the deep darkness of space.
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
A Sherlock Holmes (or Watson) moment, indeed!
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