In all, about a third of the world’s milk production is devoted to making butter. The other third is donated to high schools for the teaching of fractions.
The term “butterfly” came from the supposition that they and other insects stole dairy products. Entomologists kept the name because, even though they weren’t stealing milk and butter, they always looked as if they were about to.
Buddhists make butter sculptures called “tormas” as decorations during festivals. These tormas go largely ignored until the March of the English Muffins some eighteen days later.
The French invented margarine. It is a substitute for butter in the same way a roll of barb wire is a substitute for human companionship.
The most expensive butters are around fifty or sixty dollars a pound. It’s actually cheaper to buy strong hallucinogens and then imagine you are eating expensive butter.
Dr. Seuss’ Butter Battle Book is a chilling tale of an arms race gone horribly awry. So far, there have been no arms races that has gone horribly well.
Archaeologists have found hundreds of pounds of butter buried in peat bogs in the United Kingdom. Digging further, they found a pile of mashed potatoes the size of Chicago.
Butter beans and lima beans are the same thing; they give them the name “butter beans” to trick kids into eating them a second time.
Butter can be used to get a ring off of one’s finger… So, if your spouse smells like movie popcorn, you might have a problem…
If left out for a very long time, butter can go rancid. This makes the butter pretty much unusable but when will you get another chance to use the word “rancid” in a sentence?
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
Now that was funny 😊
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Thanks you, Deb!
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Are you going to join the fun next Monday for the Towel edition of 42 words?
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I saw a post but I haven’t read it yet, Deb. I mostly go after the emails I can just delete, first…
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Finding those mashed potatoes is a good lesson to always keep digging. There’s a treasure to be found!
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Well… it WAS Ireland…
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Dr. Seuss wrote a book about battling butter? How have I lived this long without knowing this!
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It was even a cartoon…
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Damn.
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People are around 30% butter. I have no idea if this is true, I just made it up…
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There is a place for you in the Trump administration, Joanne…
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Well making things up is all the rage at the moment…
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And, when you get caught, just double down!
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There’s only a place for you in the Trump administration if you butter Trump up.
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Everything’s better with butter!
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A theory I’ve been testing my whole life…
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Butter is a winner, nothing else could go rancid with such grace
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At this point in my life, I am thirty percent butter.
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