3:22, #516: Snake Hair, Gorilla Glue, and Other Things

I was watching 'Eddie Izzard Live at Wembley Stadium' last night where he talked about Greek mythology being a bunch of stories written by guys who were probably smoking a really big bag of weed and I had some thoughts from it and from comments on Facebook this morning.

First, did Medusa go to a snake charmer when she wanted to change her hairdo? Would the snakes on her head have shed periodically...you know, the way snakes do...in some form of major league dandruff? Did the wriggling around keep her up all night; which would explain why she was in such a bad mood?

Secondly, the term Gorilla Glue makes me wonder who wanted to glue gorillas together in the first place and just exactly how one would go about doing it, given the rather touchy nature of the critters. I mean, can you see King Kong trying to shake off Fay Ray from his paw once he got her stuck there? Of course, if it was just her clothing that was stuck, he could probably give her a good partially-naked 'fling' and send her flying to parts unknown...it would have been faster than a taxi ride in downtown New York, but the landing would have probably been rougher.

Now one product out there that's properly named is Elmer's Carpenter's Wood Glue; which, by the way, is great stuff for gluing wood together to make all sorts of things. Of course, the fact that you can finish these projects with steel wool makes me wonder if that particular product comes from cast iron sheep...and do they get rusty standing out in the rain?

Oh...think about all the 'Live' albums, DVDs & CDs that are produced. Just once I'd like to see one along the lines of 'The Grateful Dead DEAD at Madison Square Garden!' It would probably be a quiet performance, I guess, and would have to run less than 4 days or the performers would start to stink...unless, of course, they were done up properly by a taxidermist and then the 'performance' could go on indefinitely.