In an un-gardened moment

Just a few of the things I was thinking about whilst gardening today:

• If Barack Obama loses, it will be because everything thinks he will win and no one bothers to vote for him. If the USA is so concerned about voter turnout, would the first step in sorting this out possibly be to move the election to a damn weekend?

• Who was it who first came up with the term "booby trap" and did they realise just how funny people would find that in the future?

• If I am ever asked to construct an ad campaign for a speed dating service, I will find it very difficult not to use the slogan "Wine me, dine me, ill-define me"

• Thanks to this excellent post, a whole bunch of stuff about ethnicity and identity that can now be found in the comments section of aforementioned excellent post.

• Is it possible that the producers of "I kissed a girl" might have made even more money if they had found a singer who did not try to convince us that she "liked it" even though she sounded like someone had stuck her foot in a bear trap and refused to remove it until she got the words right?

• There is absolutely no excuse for Lilydale Topping. Unless someone is planning to eat Lilydale, stop making it.