first "Daily Dose of Stupidity." I sent it to Amy Gauerke, it was an
explanation of why I signed an e-mail with 'Sarah the Great.' Thought you'd
like to see it!***
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OK, first of all, I'm going to warn you that I'm typing this on a stupid Mac
in the comp lab. Blah! Stephie's roommate has a mac and they SUCK!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, we were talking about blood and the way it looked on TV and how it's
usually fake and stuff. Then I wrote that e-mail, and I was reminded of how
we were talking about blood. And the first blood-related word that came to
my head was "hemophelia." And then I remembered how I read a book once about
Alexander the Great (well, I'm pretty sure that's who it was. either way I
was playing word association in my head -- blood->hemophelia->Alexander the
Great) and he was royalty in Russia or wherever and his whole bloodline
carried the gene for hemophelia, and they called in Rasputin (or somebody
with a name similar to that) and they tried to cure Alex's son (or maybe it was
Alex when he was little) of the 'bleeding disease.' Eventually his whole
family was beginning to have children who had hemophelia, even some of the
daughters (which is really rare, because of the way the gene works. The book
had this cute little diagram that showed all that stuff and the way it
couldn't affect girls except in REALLY rare cases.)
So, anyway, being reminded about talking about blood just made me think of that book, so I used
"Sarah the Great" as a refernce to that. My mind was wandering and I was being me.
So, in the words of Paul Harvey,
"Now you know. . .the rest of the story."
Just thought you'd like to know that. Now you can ace your next history or
biology or stupid little facts quiz! Thanks to . . . doo, doo, do-doooooo!
Sarah!
Ok, I'm gonna go now.
That concludes your silly dose of stuff with Sarah.
Stay tuned for more episodes!
Love,
your host of Win Ben Stein's Money or Jeopardy or whatever other game show
you
need to know stupid facts for.
Sarah