Week 3 – Ophiuchus, Holder of Snakes… Wrecker of Self-Identity

Ophiuchus!?... More like Awfuluchus! As you can probably gather, Ophiuchus failed to sell his second chance on Ebay... so, as promised, he had a date with a rubber mallet. Enjoy!

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It’s not often that a moment comes along that makes you take a deep look at your life to figure out if everything you believed up until that point was a lie. One such moment happened this past week that turned the world on end and guaranteed that nobody would ever be the same. (Or at least most of the people that post Facebook statuses.)

That’s right, this past week Ophiuchus (pronounced OFF-ee-YOU-kuss) was thrust into our brains and had us second-guessing everything we knew about ourselves. “What? You mean I’m really supposed to be a Virgo? But, but, but, I’ve spent my entire life depending upon the fact that I’m indecisive, look at things fairly, and have the ungodly ability to woo women. Now what am I suppose to do?”

As it turns out this guy has been around for 1000s of years but societies of the past liked the nice clean 12 months – 12 astrological signs ratio so he was kicked to the curb only to join the party again last week. The experts are still out on whether we are going to accept Ophiuchus or going to give him a permanent Pluto-like demotion. I say let the man stay. After all, He’s only up there in the sky because he was slain by Zeus to stop his little brother, Hades, complaints about power. Can you really fault him for wanting his 15 minutes of fame?

In my book, Ophiuchus’s return to the scene warranted an early unveiling of the 3rd Munny that was suppose to debut on Friday, January 21^st. (Besides, who knows. At the rate our attention spans diminish these days… he might have been thrust out of the public mind by then.) So even if Ophiuchus is gone come Friday, he can live on forever in my Munny-a-Week 2011 project.

The next Munny will be posted on Friday, January 28^th. (Looks like I got the next 12 days off. Woo!) If you have any ideas for a Munny you would like to see, post a comment here or send me an e-mail at gbowdler@gmail.com.

      

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