We humans are a curious bunch, don’t you think?  We are constantly on the move these days, hustling an bustling.

I think it all started a long time ago.  Yep.  It seems like things began moving more quickly when the Industrial Age hit the United States in the early 1800s.  That Industrial Revolution, which occurred mostly from 1820 through 1870,  was pretty dang important to the economic development of the United States.

And we never looked back.

Since that time, we are always searching for ways to make money easier, faster, better… and for things in general…  to be easier, quicker, faster, better.

So we change it all up.  All the time.  We ALL do it.
Heck, even Disney.  Did you know the Seven Dwarves were almost named Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Awful and Wheezy.   If you ask me… I think Walt dodged a big bullet right there.  Good move Walt.  Live Hippos at Disneyland?  Bad move Walt.

Wouldn’t you know? Candy companies do it too.  Three Musketeers used to contain vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavor.   Now, it is just fluffy… wholesome… goodness.

There are times when we try to come up with new and exiting ideas.  Which often lead to things other than the intended purpose.  Okay… a good “for-instance” is  the inventors of bubble wrap.  They were trying to make plastic wallpaper.   Obviously…. that idea popped.

The Slinky was supposed to hold & secure equipment on naval ships.  The “device” was holding a meter on a table.  Due to rocking water, the device fell off the table… and began walking away.   “The Slinky, the Slinky…”

Here’s another.  Imagine a wounded soldier walking around with a Maxi-Pad stuck to his forehead.  Well…. as we would have it… Kotex was supposed to be used for healing and dressing wounds during World War I.  And there you have that.  You are macho with a head wound, until you stick a Kotex on it.

But let’s look at another area of our weirdness.

When places that get hurricanes… are expecting a hurricane…. the shopping in the area increases significantly.  That makes sense really.  People getting emergency supplies, water, boards, blankets, etc.

BUT… Wal-Mart recently studied their sales reports for this “period” of shopping.  They found that when  a hurricane is expected, Wal-Mart’s top-selling items are strawberry Pop-Tarts and beer.    “Earl, we are ALL set.  We got our Strawberry Pop-Tarts and Milwaukee’s Best.  Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain.”

Probably the most ironic discovery gone another way is this one….
During the ninth-century, Chinese alchemists were on a big whopping quest to find an elixir for eternal life.

They mixed together all sorts of things in an effort to find such a Forever Cocktail.  They found out the hard way that mixing salt peter, sulfur, and charcoal is not a recipe for immortality.  On the contrary…. it makes gunpowder.   End of Elixer.  End of Test Dummy.

Seems we have a lot of Test Dummies walking around these days.  Most of us really.  With every new study, gadget, and major advancement, we are the new lab rats for the swift society.  In 100 years, they will look back in utter shock… and Ahhhhh Noooooo.

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“It’s useless to lecture a human.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”
― John Steinbeck