Monday Night Football

This is kind of an old story, but I liked it. Justin and I were watching Monday Night Football, and I thought I heard some commentator say that one week "Matt Hasselbeck threw... to Moss" and I said "huh?" I explained to Justin that I am a fan of the Seahawks (the team Hasselbeck plays for), and they aren't one of the two teams I know of that have a Moss on the receiving end of pass plays (the Raiders and the Redskins). I then confessed that I wasn't a very dilligent fan, and a lesser known receiver might have escaped my attention and then had a remarkably good day. I pondered aloud whether there was a football player named "Moss" whom I might have been forgetting.

"Pete," Justin said.

"Ha ha, Justin."

"Seriously, that name sounds familiar. Pete Moss."

"Justin, peat moss is a kind of moss that grows in swamps."

"Oh," he said, laughing. And that was that.

JRRR

Justin and the civil rights movement

Some news anchor commented on a video clip that it showed African-American civil rights leaders denouncing something or other, and I noted to Justin that one of them was conspicuously white. "Maybe he's South African," Justin said.

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More on the breadfingers

Justin was talking to me about his breadfinger idea, and he said somewhat dejectedly "The whole point was so that you wouldn't have to get a spoon, but I think it might be easier just to get a spoon than to get breadfingers." I don't know why he would think that.

Later, he was expressing some concern about someone who reads this blog potentially stealing his idea. Before I could tell him that no one actually reads this blog, he continued: "If someone steals my idea - if I see breadfingers somewhere - I'll track them down and give them two or three black eyes." So there you have it. If you don't want to risk three black eyes, just don't try to make edible digits out of bread.

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