Bob's Eye View Blog

Yesterday, as I ate my morning bowl of chocolate chip mint ice cream, I read in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel that Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of an isolated tribe of Indians living in the Amazon.  Shot in late April and early May, the photos show about a dozen Indians, mostly naked and painted red.  The story made me nostalgic for my college days.

The Space Shuttle was launched into orbit yesterday.  It carried a new pump for the broken toilet on the International Space Station.  If funding for the arts continues to shrink, and the price of gas continues to rise, I just might apply to be the first bathroom attendant in space.

I have a college degree.  I can offer the astronauts a towel, a splash of cologne, and will gladly accept their tips.  Most of you are probably not aware that in high school I was voted "most likely to become a bathroom attendant in outer space."

I can now reveal that a few months back I went on a secret mission to the Middle East for my old Hebrew School.  While there, I went off on my own, and stumbled upon a cave.  I reluctantly entered and my heart began racing faster than the gas prices are rising.  It was 

cramped, and I was forced to crawl on my belly, something I hadn't done since college.  

Suddenly, there they were.  Twelve dust-covered jars.  They looked nothing like the dust-covered jars I have back in Florida.  I carefully rolled the jars in old copies of the Sun-Sentinel, breaking only two of the twelve, and brought them back to America with me.  Last week, I asked my neighbor, Sol, to examine the clay jars.

Sol, is not an archeologist.  He is a retired dentist, but he is a huge fan of the Indiana Jones movies.  The other day he informed me that what I had in my possession might prove to be more important than the Dead Sea Scrolls.  They might be worth millions, and might allow me to fill up my minivan with gas ten or even twelve times.  Sol told me that I had in my possession the previously unknown Dead Sea Polls!  He told me he had to go and watch Jeapardy and he'd tell me more on Monday.