Ponder is a great word.  Sometimes it goes hand and hand with Wonder.  Both rhyme with Yonder.  Another terrific selection of a word.

The only other rhymer I can think of is Launder.  It is not much fun to do….. AND it isn’t spelled quite like the others  .. …. so it doesn’t really count.

With all of that said…. tonight  … I suggest we go over yonder, and ponder with wonder.  Because… as you all know by now… I like those fun-filled facts.

Basketball was never my strong sport.  Softball… soccer…. yes.  Da basketball … nope.  It was because I am not a very good jumper…. at all.  Well, apparently, I am not the only one.  Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump at all.  Not even a little.   Can you imagine if they did?  Holy smacker-olly.

I speculate it is not because of their size.  No.  What I found out is that the elephant is the only animal with four knees.   The prospect of coordinating all four knees at once is just too much for old Dumbo… is what I think.  Plus, they don’t own any Nike Air High Tops.  (I, on the other hand, have no excuse for my vertically challenged status.)

One in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.  Imagine how proud the parents must be.

Now… I know some Cow Farmers.  Actually, I know a lot of Cow Farmers.  I guess that is the “politically correct” term for them.  I mean, they don’t actually stick the cows in the ground and watch them grow…. like bean farmers.  They keep them in barns and pastures… and yank on their udders from time to time.   Milk comes out and they shoot it into buckets.  Honestly!  Milk comes out!   I would NOT jerk you around on this one.

At any rate… this is for my farmer friends.  The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.   I bet them udders are insured.  Pink is the new gold, by the way.

I used to love the Sunday Comics.  It was my favorite part of the paper.  But this little tidbit has escaped my memory.  Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown’s baseball team….when he could find it!).   That is all according to hours of internet research on my part.  I never saw Rerun. And I can’t imagine why his parents named him that.    This all bothers me.  Keeps me up late at night….

I like my fast food every now and again … it is true.  But not enough to verify the next fact.  They say that on average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonald’s Big Mac bun.  Who knew, really.  I guess I am glad for that.  I like the sesame seeds on the bun of the Mac.  But that good old Special Sauce is the best part.  Or it could be the two all-beef patties, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onion.  Could be.

Heinz Ketchup was invented the same year Alexander Graham Bell made his first phone call. My question is this.  What did Alex eat on his French Fries up to this point in history?  How could he EVEN think to invent a phone… with no ketchup for his fries.   Ha. Revelation.   I bet he counted seeds on buns to clear his mind.

Finally……  You are not the same person you were last year.  It seems… that every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.  This frightens me to no end.    I really thought I knew you.