> In the meantime she's exposing us to some culture by discussing why > her church feels it necessary to dress like Mr. Peanut. > > Truth be told...I really don't know what Janice is up to most of the time.
mr peanut is an icon, a true son of the South. A lot of people think he is a fictional character but he was a real man. he wore spats and carried a cane and wore a top hat. his mothers maiden name was Le Gume. She was french. In 1890 Mr. peanut was attending classes at Tuskeegee Institute in Alabama and happened to be in a class taught by a professor named george Washington Carver who could care less about peanuts at the time but was so mightily impressed by his gifted young student that he actually became obsessed and started stalking him and in a weak and pitiable effort at impressing his young almost protege, he began to come up with all sorts of employment opportunities for Mr. peanut upn graduation. Thus we now have peanut butter and peanut oil and peanut jelly beans and even a national Peanut festival held every year not 30 miles from my house. Ironically the thing most crowded at the national peanut festival every year is the corn dog booth. Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
