I can already tell that this is going to be a strange rambling post, but stay with me for a bit.

I was driving my family home from dinner last weekend, and my wife and I had started talking about the old television show, My Favorite Martian. I have no idea why we started talking about this, but I do remember that we started the whole thing by talking about The A-Team television show, and I really have no idea how we got from The A-Team to My Favorite Martian

Maybe it was because Uncle Martin, Ray Walston, was always trying to fix his spaceship, and my six-year-old was talking about spaceships. I don’t know. Anyway, we were talking about Ray Walston and I told my son that the person who was in the show with him was Bill Bixby, who later played the Hulk on television. Well, he didn’t play the part of the Hulk, I told him, he played the part of Dr. Banner, who would change into the Hulk. The part of the Hulk was played by Lou Ferrigno.

As we were getting out of the car, my son was saying something about who could have laid the Hulk. Obviously, he misheard laid for played when we were talking about it. While my wife and I look at each other and smirk because he’s six and doesn’t understand how funny it is that he’s talking about the Hulk getting laid, he continues on talking about what kind of creature could have laid the Hulk.

He finally said, “It would have to have been a really big bird, and maybe green.”

We laughed really hard. He’s very cute.

So I was thinking about what I was going to write today, and I was considering talking about why lupus is called lupus, since a friend of mine had recently asked me that question. I’ve heard all kinds of explanations, including that the malar rash looks as if someone has been hit in the face with a wolf. I’ll buy the hit in the face by a wolf, but not with a wolf. Who throws a wolf at someone? Anyway, I was looking at the the Wikipedia page for lupus and discovered that Ray Walston died after a six-year battle with lupus. How crazy is that? How’s that for six degrees of Kevin Bacon? I got from Mr. T back to lupus in only a few steps. I win.