Do peanuts grow above ground or below: The nice thing about only betting a single beer, is that you'll wager even when you're not entirely sure you're correct. For instance, I was unsurprised to discover that the Mystery Actor was Danza, and The Queen wasn't adamant that corn was a vegetable.
But we were both wracked with certainly on the question of whether peanuts grew above ground or below. Though peanuts are outside of The Queen's professional bailiwick (she's an expert on native plants, and peanuts hail from South America), she was sure that they grew underground. I, on the other hand, insisted otherwise. peanuts are actually legumes, and legumes (e.g., beans, lentils, and peas) grow on stalks. I don't need no fancy bow-TAN-eekle degree to know that growing on a stalk = above ground.Except ...Except, apparently, when the stalk grows above ground ... and then, in a shocking surprise twist sure to have you on the edge of your seat, bends over and burrows into the soil before producing peanuts. WTF PEANUTS?!! That was totally unfair -- there was no way I could have known that those legumes were going to go all psycho on me. Verdict: Peanuts grow below ground. Winner: The Queen, but only on a technicality. The technicality being that I was completely wrong.
rw: WTF peanuts!? (dYeti-worth-it)

he's funny.. 1/30 The Lost Weeks: Hi there! My name is Matthew Baldwin, though longtime readers may remember me as The Guy Who Used To Update This Website Semi-Reliably. How was I able to blog five days a week, what with all my other pressing obligations such as taking vitamins and wishing I was an fireman?.. It was a pretty good system, and one that served me well ... until the Lost: Season One DVDs started arriving from NetFlix about two weeks ago. Goodbye, free time!
- Anyhow, it appears that Seattle has abruptly become A Town That Gives A Rats Ass About Football, and everyone is now scrambling to prove that they were fans waaaaay before last weekend.
- Hat Trick: This evening The Queen and I watched the State of the Union address, the Democratic response, and then an episode of The Sopranos. It was kind of like a trilogy.