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Philosophical Questions Asked By The Rain

13 thoughts I had on one rainy day

Hunter Geisel
Feb 22, 2016
Texas Christian University
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Philosophical Questions Asked By The Rain

It's a rainy day here in the Fort. Clouds are looming as the rain slowly falls on my window sill. To my left is my charging iPhone and to my right, a bag of Brookside acai and blueberry chocolates. Like how some people have shower thoughts or even late night thoughts, my imagination is usually sparked by a rainy day. Here are some things that have gone through my mind today.

1. Why do I walk diagonally up the stairs of the Mary Couts Burnett Library?

Why can't I just walk straight to the doors rather than at a 45-degree angle?

2. How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if it could chuck wood?

Don't you dare say "a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood." I want the exact measurements, not some phony estimates!

3. Why was "Twilight" so successful?

It's basically "Beauty and the Beast," but with vampires and werewolves... Those copycats, or should I say, those copy-BATS!

4. Why is that part of my face where my nose meets my face called the "bridge"?

I know my nose may be a little big, but no one's using it to cross the Hudson River any day now.

5. Why am I so awkward around attractive women?

I lived with women my entire life and that has not helped whatsoever.

6. Why is a businessman/media personality running for office?

We're not The Simpsons, or are we?..

7. I was born in New Jersey, raised in Utah, and go to college in Texas. Does that make me an all-American?

#BornInTheUSA.

8. Why does everyone hate the Yankees?

We've won the most World Series Championships, been in the most World Series Championships; we had Babe Ruth, Yogi Berra, Micky Mantle, and Derek Jeter.

All of you haters are just sore la-hoo-za-hers!

9. Is TCU's hand sign suppose to represent a Horned Frog?

Like. How?

10. What language are the adults of the Peanuts cartoons speaking?

Wawa-nese?

11. Is Maroon 5 made up of five people that have crimson skin or 5 people stranded on an island?

Really makes me wonder.

12. Why does February not have at least 30 days?

What a rebellious month.

13. Why is "fetch" not a thing?

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