Suggested bloody pairing: Bloody Maria.
Got a bye week coming up, as I will be in the exotic Land of Cleve. But the following week, it’s on to part 3. Three is a significant number in many religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Shinto, Daoism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Norse religion, Wicca, Neopaganism, the Theosophical Society, Thelema, Hermeticism, and presumably others.
Three: A number people like.
Plus there was that really great Schoolhouse Rock song about 3.
Everybody says “You are what you eat” but nobody says “The dust in your house is you”
And I wonder, the name wheelbarrow kind of suggests there are other kinds of barrows. But what would those even be? Now I need to look that up, I bet in olde English it was like, a sack on your back or something.
Ok, I looked up barrow. It can mean:
1: mountain, mound—used only in the names of hills in England
2: a large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead: tumulus
Why would you ever say “barrow” when you could say “tumulus”?
Barrow can also mean a male hog castrated before sexual maturity, or:
1
a: handbarrow
b: wheelbarrow
2: a cart with a shallow box body, two wheels, and shafts for pushing it—which sounds like a wheelbarrow to me, but I guess I’m an idiot.
So basically, there are handbarrows. See ’em everywhere, really. Doctors, lawyers, birds, your more intelligent rocks—handbarrows to a one.
Hehehe. So I did look it up, apparently a regular barrow is like, a stretcher. That’s kind of hilarious, imagining two guys hoisting what would normally be in a wheelbarrow, up on their shoulders, because nobody had thought to put wheels on it yet. That’s a good way to end up under a tumulus.
So I guess wheelbarrow = a thing you can use to “wheel” around some “barrow”, i.e. dirt.
Do people buy handbarrows? Maybe that guy should get one of those to carry all his dust.