Sometimes, I wonder how people came up with their ideas. I mean, there are things that people come up with that us "normal" people would never think of.
For example, the wheel. I wonder what caveman went hunting and decided that his mammoth carcass would be easier to transport if he could roll it across the ground.
Or durian. Who in their right minds smelled durian and decided that it would be edible, let alone appetizing? (The answer, children, is no one).
Or Winnie the Pooh. For some reason, every time I think of Winnie the Pooh, I think that the lovable little bear must have come about in a similar fashion to this: A.A. Milne is sitting on the toilet in Winnipeg taking care of his business one day, and starts thinking about his favorite stuffed bear from when he was a boy, and "zing!"
Have you ever noticed that your best ideas tend to come about while you're on the toilet? Sometimes I wonder if that's not secretly the reason that toilets were invented. But, then again, I have to consider that toilets were probably invented by some guy who got sick of standing over a hole in Europe somewhere trying to avoid stepping in his own *ahem*.
Maybe the toilet is not the secret to success, maybe it's what you do on it that counts. Maybe the mother of invention is not necessity, but defecation?
Just some food for thought.
I just grossed myself out.
