Larry LaPrise

With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week.

Larry LaPrise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey," died peacefully at age 93.

The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in...and then the trouble started.


Come on...you know that was funny. Kudos to my goofy mom for that one.

Intelligent Design vs. Babel Fish Theory

I am still a bit flabbergasted that we are actually debating creationism again in the public school system. Is this 1920? Intelligent Design proponents cite the vast complexity of life on Earth as evidence of the hand of God. To me this is highly contradictory. I am reminded of the wisdom of Douglas Adams regarding his Babel Fish.

I paraphrase:

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly complex could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes like this:

"I refuse to prove that I exist", says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But", says Man, "Intelligent Design is a dead giveaway isn't it? Life is far to complex to have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

"Oh dear", says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Oh that was easy" says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.