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What’s your Circus Peanuts?

Posted by Mark | Filed under Humor, Life

Some time ago, I was hav­ing a dis­cus­sion with a friend where it came up that I like those nasty, orange can­dies known as cir­cus peanuts.  I don’t really under­stand why I like them myself; I just do.  Since then, I’ve used the term “cir­cus peanuts” in my head as men­tal short­hand for any­thing that I like which either isn’t any good and/or which I have no dis­tinct rea­son for lik­ing.  I bring this up because my faith­ful read­ers will prob­a­bly notice I started read­ing a book which wasn’t on my list of planned books, The Eye of the World by Robert Jor­dan.  I will not pre­tend that this book has the great­est story, char­ac­ters or writ­ing in the world; how­ever it is a book which I have read mul­ti­ple times and always enjoyed.  I picked it up to read this morn­ing as I looked over my unread book list and noth­ing on there appealed to me in the slight­est.  So I went with a “cir­cus peanuts” book to have some­thing to read over my lunch hour at work. Then as  I was about to start read­ing the book, I started to won­der what other people’s cir­cus peanuts might be.  What do you think?  What is your “cir­cus peanuts”?

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