Don't Look, Ethel!

It's human nature to look at something when you have emphatically been told not to look. Those of mythological lore who looked directly at Medusa, the snake-headed creature, were instantly turned to stone. Lot's wife, in the book of Genesis, could not resist to look back even after God had strongly advised her not to. As we know, her one peek instantly and infamously made her the first box of Morton Salt. Similarly, Ethel, in Ray Stevens's 1974 hit song, "The Streak," ignored her protective husb