Darwinian Vegetarianism

I am a practicing vegetarian but not your everyday typical run of the mill one. I consider myself a Darwinian Vegetarian and, as such I have a slightly different, some might say distorted, view of vegetarianism.

"A vegetarian is someone who abstains from the consumption of animal flesh"

You won’t find the term Darwinian (or Evolutionary) Vegetarian in the dictionary or even in Wikipedia. The term is all my own; I've never shared it before and it's my special gift to you.

"A Darwinian Vegetarian is a person who is nourished and survives by eating food sources that are freely available from the lowest level of the food chain"

Scooby Double Doo

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera made the shock announcement today that there was more than one Scooby Doo. This revealing confession is considered by critics to be far more deceptive than the Blue Peter debacle with Petra and Freda (the tortoise). The two images on this page clearly show two different Scooby Doos; note the difference in eyes and skin colour. Another clue is that the series has been running 47 years, which would make Mr Doo the equivalent of a 350 year old human.

Going Dutch

Have you ever visited the Netherlands? The more I find out about Dutch culture the more I am bemused and fascinated by it. Rather than just state my musings, with the Christmas holiday coming up, I have phrased them as travel tips for visiting the Netherlands.

So to begin with, did you notice that I wrote Netherlands rather than Holland? Tip #1 is to never say you are going to Holland to a Dutch person. They will think you are ignorant or stupid or both ignorant and stupid. Saying you are going to Holland rather than the Netherlands is like saying you are going to the Norfolk Broads rather than the UK.

As a child I thought that the Netherlands was where Peter Pan and Tinkerbell lived, but clearly not.