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True facts may in fact be false

Another great syndicated feed, this time gullible_info which updates daily(ish) with many fascinating facts and statistics from its homepage www.gullible.info.

Of course, the fact that all these facts are completely made up is neither here nor there.

Test your friends' gullibility with such classics as:

• The television series Full House was proposed originally by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to promote family values to the secular world.

• Henry Cabot, upon his "discovery" of Newfoundland in 1498, was greeted by a fleet of more than 100 Portuguese fishing boats.

• Molten wax was worshipped in ancient Minoa.

• Only three condoms per every five manufactured will be used for intercourse.

• Over forty-five years of space exploration, no fewer than six dogs, eleven cats, four thousand mice and an aquarium-full of crickets are believed to have been stranded in low Earth orbit.

• Traditionally, belts were a symbol of poverty worn by peasants who could not afford properly fitted pants. They came into general fashion in the early 1890s.

• The energy contained in just one tank of gasoline, if applied all at once, is enough to lift a VW Bug into orbit.

• Though hard to imagine by today's standards, Sean Connery's James Bond used a female companion as a shield under hostile fire no fewer than eight times over the course of the six original Bond movies.

• From ages 14 through 22, Abraham Lincoln owned only two pairs of pants.

• Errant champagne corks kill more than two dozen people every year. One third of fatal champagne accidents occur at weddings.

Yeah, SOMEONE had to do it...

Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
Hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms.

Those gay penguins are still holding their own

BREMERHAVEN, GERMANY - Shy Swedish female penguins sent to seduce "homosexual" male Humboldt penguins in a German zoo have failed to break up any of the male-male twosomes, officials said Wednesday.

Bremerhaven Zoo last year shrugged off attacks from gay-pride groups as far away as the United States last year over its efforts to establish breeding pairs in its penguin pens.

The zoo has far too many male penguins, while Kolmarden Zoo in Sweden has an oversupply of females. The species is in danger of dying out. At Bremerhaven, the birds, which find new mates every year, form all-male pairs and adopt pebbles as if they were eggs.


Siegfried and Roy enjoy musical theatre and romantic walks on the beach.

Last year, officials said the females had arrived too late for pairing. And this year, the birds arrived in time, but were too shy.

"The Swedes are rather stand-offish," said zoo chief executive Heike Kueck.

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=27472&name=German+zoo+fails+to+make+gay+penguins+straight

Squirrelly Love

The Pulse at Comicon have a preview up for the upcoming I (Heart) Marvel one-shot, Masked Intentions that looks cute beyond belief.

Two stories, one featuring Justice and Firestar (who I care little about), but also one featuring the marriage made in heaven that is SPEEDBALL and SQUIRREL GIRL.



I am so going to buy this. If it's anything like as great as the Doop story in the other one-shot I'll be a very happy squirrel.

And there's even sight of some of the other Great Lakes Avengers/X-men. Yay!

Squirrel Girl's lips taste of hazelnut apparently...

Now that's comic timing

My boss spotted this little gem in today's Sun newspaper. Be sure to pay close attention to the fourth paragraph for the punchline.

This PC now got better

Okay, following on from my post a couple of weeks back about the cigarette lighter and cup holder for your PC, it was only a matter of time before someone went one step further and created a beer dispenser too.

So now you can pour a perfect pint, light a cigarette and balance your cup in the cup holder, finally disposing of the last reason you'd ever need to leave the house. Beer, fags and porn. It's surely some kind of utopian vision?



Unfortunately I don't speak Slovakian so I have no idea how to get my hands on one of these babies.