Better mud in your eye than a stationary planet Earth

Today’s question: Why, when someone takes a drink, do they say “Here’s mud in your eye?” Who knows? It may have come from horse racing or fox hunting in which the leading horse kicks up mud in the eyes of those behind it.

It may have come from the story in the Gospel of John in which Jesus cured a blind man by spitting in the dirt and rubbing the mud on the guy’s eyes.

Or it might be that soldiers in the muddy trenches on World War I used it as a toast to suggest better mud than a bullet in your eye. Take your pick.

If Earth stopped spinning, besides being burned, or frozen to death, would I weigh more? If so, how much more?

This is a silly question.

In theory, you would be lighter. Meanwhile, our planet would be bulging at the equator and flattening at the poles and you would have a whole lot of other things to worry about other than how much you and your silly head weighed.

Did Norman Rockwell paint a Harvey Girl cover and does it still exist?

Do we all know who the Harvey girls were? They were the young women who came west to staff Fred Harvey’s railroad restaurants, including some in Arizona.

Why in the world do you need to know? Do you think some distant relative died and left you what might be a rare Norman Rockwell work?

As far as I can tell, which often isn’t all that far, Rockwell never painted a Harvey Girl portrait, although I am perfectly willing to stand corrected.