Redheads
The boys kept ducking her; Lizzy didn’t get it–didn’t boys like redheads? Lucille Ball, Maureen O’Hara and Janis Joplin were redheads; what was wrong with her . . .?
Turtle Blues
As Kenny felt the weight and the burden of his student loans, he was reminded of the old Janis Joplin song, “Turtle Blues . . .”
Turtle Years vs Dog Years
Clyde (pictured) was trying to do his doctoral dissertation for Veterinary Medicine, comparing dog years to human years, and then calculating Turtle Years. The well know scientific fact is that a human year is equal to seven dog years, depending on the size of the dog. Turtles however, often live as much as 400 human years. How do you calculate that? Wikipedia had almost nothing on this subject, nor did YouTube, except for several versions of Janis Joplin’s “Turtle Blues”. It was slow going . . .
Life Expectancy
Twyla Sue knew, without doubt, she was a beauty and destine to go places, but she was concerned that such a large percentage of beautiful people seemed to die early. Marylin Monroe, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bob Marley, John Belushi and Natalie Wood, all gone before their time. Yet the President, in spite of her repeated letters and emails, had done nothing to get the Surgeon General to look into greater longevity for the beautiful people . . .