We are at the "rental" ("home" is now officially The Nest since we have the keys, and the place we live until we move into "home" is offically the "rental") Saturday evening after a long day doing homeowner type stuff at The Nest. I get out of the shower to find Heather watching Looney Tunes. She hands me the TiVo remote and tells me I can flip, after a couple of minutes of searching the program guide I drop the remote onto the couch and tell her that I know the second reason she's watching this program, there's nothing else on. The first being that she loves Looney Tunes anyway. (Don't believe me? She's sitting on the couch quoting lines as the characters are speaking them... almost... every... line!)

Anyway, I'm watching Bugs Bunny travel to a new location under ground and I have an epiphany.

Bugs Bunny travels underground because he is a rabbit, and rabbits burrow under ground.

DUH!

I'm 34 years old and have watched Looney Tunes for nearly 3.5 decades, and I just this weekend got it that Bugs Bunny travels underground when he takes long trips because rabbits burrow underground. I understood the relationship of E-mc^2 somewhere between the ages of 11 and 14. But not until now did I understand the relationship of Bugs' burrowing and him being a rabbit.

Amazing what connections get made in people's brains. I always took for granted that Bugs' mode of travel was simply the way he got around, and that it was intended to be humorous. Now it makes sense, and is still humorous.

I guess that's always why he misses that turn at Albuquerque!

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