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Rastafarian contrarian

 When I was a kid, I thought there were two Marley brothers, Jacob and Robert. This was because of the Muppet Christmas carol. I assumed that every other version I had seen just left out Robert, and the Muppets were the only ones to bother including him. When I read the book by Charles Dickens, I learned that he too had left out Robert Marley. Isn't it crazy that the Muppets told the story more accurately than the author himself?

Erosion

 Today on the radio I heard this gem of a story: "Unfortunately, over time, as the livestock populations increased, the Mendon mountain got severely overgrazed. Each rainstorm would send rocks and mud crashing down the steep slopes. Trying to persuade the town council to get the livestock off the mountain and let the vegetation recover, John O Hughes made a bold move. During a council meeting, he took his glass of water and dumped half of it over the head of a bald man. Everyone watched in stunned silence as the water rolled right off the bald head and soaked the man’s shirt. Hughes then dumped the rest of the water onto a man with a bushy head of hair. This man’s shirt stayed dry. That settled the debate." Every environmental debate should have some application to men's hair issues.