TheBanyanTree: Theory

[Cecil]

At 10:26 AM -0500 1/15/05, Maria Gibson wrote:
>I have developed several theories for myself as life has marched along.
>Some of them are built from ideas gone awry while others just happened
>to me, kind of like bad things happening to good people.  Theories are
>rarely evoked from all going well.  I think there are times when I am
>dead on and this latest is one of them.  If I could not poke fun at
>myself then I suppose I'd have never unearthed this little gem.  I've
>shared it at work and now is the perfect time to share it here.  Its
>unveiling at this precise moment could be said to have been illicited by
>the previous post.
>
>You know Mr. Potato Head?  Little brown, round guy?  He's got all kinds
>of accessories with which to be decorated.  He's got hats; I've seen a
>cowboy hat and a fedora looking thing.  He's got a mustache or, if you
>prefer, he can be clean-shaven.  There are feet and hands and glasses at
>the ready for one Mr. Potato Head to adorn his brown, round, rather
>lumpy and dumpy body.  Because, no matter what he is festooned with, no
>matter what he has sticking off of him to make him better looking,
>seemingly more wise or at least more acceptable in the potato community,
>one truth remains.
>
>He is still a potato.
>
>Maria

Pretty profound, Maria. Clothes do not make the man, only our 
perception of him. He can be a prince in rags or a bum in sartorial 
splendor.

Cecil