by E. Alan Meece
June 8, 2025
Band of Writers (BOW), Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Los Gatos
My Band of Writers Essays
Orange is a happy color. It makes us happy. So I am thinking of orange, and so I am happy. Are you? Orange you happy?
I am not happy very often these days. I forgot to wear orange today. So if I had been wearing orange, I would have been happy today. I am happy when I eat an orange too. But I didn’t bring any, and there were no oranges at church today. So I just imagine that I am eating an orange, and I am happy.
Now, oranges have peels. At the end of the movie It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, the irritating lady slipped on a banana peel and everyone injured in the hospital laughed (see the last clip at the link below). If I could throw an orange peel in the path of the Orange One, and he fell, I would be happy!
(I guess I will have to look for the name of the actress who played the irritating lady later; the internet connection from my phone isn’t working. But she sang There's No Business Like Show Business . I am happier when my memory works) (I found her, Ethel Merman).
So orange peels can make me happy too. I would like to remind everyone to peel an orange today, and throw a peel in front of anyone who irritates you so they fall, so you can laugh and be happy. And if they are not hurt too badly that’s OK too. Or you can be happy cleaning up after all the litter bugs who throw orange and banana peels away on the street so others don’t fall.
("the appeal of peels" -- Arturo Montoya)
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 10 movie clips
top comment on video:
@IvanHorodenko
1 month ago
I’ll never forget the MADNESS about this song when it came out. It was everywhere. Good song
There was lots of synchronicity and unexpected connections in the group today. That makes me happy. Two people in the group discovered that they both went to Kent State University in Ohio. Arturo discovered that he and Mike's wife both worked at the same library. There was the synchronicity of the Jeopardy answer Friday June 6 providing the common BOW word "prompt" for my homework essay Prompt: I looked inside. Today June 8 on TV, the 1991 Match Game host handed out three fruits to 3 celebrities, including a banana to Charles Nelson Reilly. That made him happy. Ethel Merman was on Match Game 1980 today too. The next day after writing this essay, orange peel pieces appeared on the bike lane in front of my house.