Occasionally I'll make a post when something strikes me as odd or funny. And it will be under the heading "Is It Just Me?" That's because I have found as I wend my way through this life that things strike me as funny or odd that don't seem to have that impact on anyone else.
And let me first apologize for having not posted the last couple of weeks. Haven't had a lot to say, and between work and local elections I've been busy. Still it's good to be in the habit of posting on a regular schedule.
So anyway today's Is It Just Me moment was triggered by an interview I watched this morning. On the Today Show they were interviewing Richard Branson and son. You know Branson from Virgin Atlantic airlines, etc. His latest venture is putting together space flight for "normal people". If by normal you mean someone who can afford the $250,000 ticket price.
Anyway they are aiming for 2014 I believe and NBC Universal will broadcast the liftoff/flight, hence the appearance on the Today Show.
Anyway Branson was talking about the people who have bought the tickets and thus provided the capital to help keep the project alive. He said about 700 people have bought tickets (you do the math). Branson then made the comment that these 700 people included such famous people as Leonardo DiCaprio and Sir Stephen Hawking, the whole extreme range of people. I forget how he phrased it exactly but "extreme range" I believe was part of it.
And that immediately struck me as odd. So what range of humanity was he talking about that would have Leonardo DiCaprio and Stephen Hawking at the extremities? People who can walk and people who can't? We all know Dr. Hawking is considered to be brilliant, so was Branson implying DiCaprio is a dummy? DiCaprio is considered good-looking and stylish, so by extension Hawking is ugly?
Just got me to wondering what extremes he was talking about.
But then as the title implies,
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