Much Ado About Mucking

And the Lord said: Let there be muck!

Before there was life, there was muck. If it wasn't for the serpent, Eve might have told Adam to keep his mucky hands off her apples. Noah took two of every kind of muck onto the ark. The dinosaurs missed the boat because they were stuck fast in muck. And people have always been mucking in, mucking around, and mucking it up. The ancient Greeks wrestled naked in muck. The Romans built an empire on muck. Serfs in the Middle Ages owned nothing but the clothes on their backs, and the muck on their clothes. Caravaggio could paint muck better than anyone. Shakespeare wrote several plays about muck. It was muck that lost Napolean the battle of Waterloo. Queen Victoria had her own private muck pit. WW1 saw miles of trenches dug out of the muck. Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first to fly over a bit of muck. The world told Hitler to muck off out of it. The 1960s were all about peace and free muck. We smoke muck. snort muck, inject muck into our veins. There are songs about muck. Movies that are full of muck. Books like The Idiot's Guide to Muck. We share our muck on social media and like other people's muck. Muck makes the world go round -- Where would we be without it?