After watching so many games of Weird Newscasters, names like Keith My Pasty White Butt really impresses you. Ok no, its just me.
Then out of a sudden you're making your own breaking news stories like: "This just in, the results of the art is stationery race have been announced. The pencil and eraser have crossed the finish line at the same time, its a DRAW!" yeah, I know, cerebral-not-so-much.
But anyway, it just got me thinking. Names are quite the important thing in life.
Like the old joke goes, if you're Asian and you happen to have the surname Kok, never name your son Harry; or your daughter Annie.
So sue me for drifting, but I just thought of something else. Fight or flight. Flight meaning you scuttle away in the event of a catastrophe. But why use the word flight?
Does that mean birds that fly are cowards? If that's the case, then why is the chicken, a bird that can't fly, a name we use for scaredy cats? oh and cats. If the cat is another jumpy creature, why do we associate lions as symbols of courage?
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