December 15, 2006

• 36. The average employee spends 14 working days a year on personal e-mails, phone calls and web browsing, outside official breaks, according to employment analysts Captor. These people are simply NOT TRYING!
• 10. Humans can be born suffering from a rare condition known as "sirenomelia"... The very article cited speaks of cases in previous years. Who is this "we" who didn't know about this last year?
• It was a secret.
• 29. When faced with danger, the octopus can wrap six of its legs around its head to disguise itself as a fallen coconut shell and escape by walking backwards on the other two legs, scientists discovered. Do they really think they're fooling anyone? "Hey, it's an octopus! GET HIM!! Oh, wait, never mind, it's just a walking coconut."
• no no it can't belong to me it must belong to you in Spain we called it the French Flu small wonder journos grope inside a fog in the States an official subpoenaed a dog of dissociated facts we've quite a catalogue sure, broccoli's a baby tree who gives a hoot for sanity?
• 78. One in 18 people has a third nipple
• Origin of the Common Name "Spanish Moss" Native Americans called the plant "tree hair", which name the French explorers turned to "Barbe espagnole" -- "Spanish Beard" -- to insult their bitter rivals in the New World. The Spanish retorted with "Cabello francés" ("French hair"). "Spanish Moss", a milder variation of the French taunt, has survived. Another common name is "Graybeard". -Greybeard
• I've always wanted a third nipple.
• 43. The spiciness of sauces is measured in Scoville Units. Considering the scale was invented in 1912, I think the "we" referred to in the article really doesn't represent the average monkey. Or man, for that matter.
• Maybe the "we" referred to in the article is the BBC.
• "45. C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on." I still don't know how to do italics. Anyway, from skimming the list, everything looked like it was factual. Then there is this silly one. 1 - It's not funny. 2 - If it was funny, it was funny 19 years ago. How did this even get in there? How can I start an internet petition to have it removed?
• <i>text</i> Or <em>text</em>
• Something I didn't know at 2:56PM UTC: mice take airplane rides.
• Some of that was a bit fascinating....
• 25. Nelson probably had a broad Norfolk accent. Historical novelists around the world let out a collective gasp...
• 29. When faced with danger, the octopus can wrap six of its legs around its head to disguise itself as a fallen coconut shell and escape by walking backwards on the other two legs, scientists discovered. Damn it! That sounds brilliant. I want the youtube link. Either that, or incorporate it into the third Pirates of the Carribean movie.
• I am too stupid to figure out how to use italics.
• I tried. I failed. I weep.
• 67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex. bow-chicka-rackitchika-bow-bow!
• < i >bernockle: You had < i > and , both of them together, both at the beginning and at the end of your phrase - that's why it failed.< /i >
• This way to the octopus imitating a coconut.
• Or here's a short mpeg that might work better.
• 37. Cyclist Lance Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than the average man's. Yes, but I've hard that his shoes are two sizes too small.
• You people are just mocking me.
• 41. Tactically, the best Monopoly properties to buy are the orange ones: Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street. Hahahahaha! Those aren't the orange properties! Silly British!
• hard s/b heard, obv. 9. The energy used to build an average Victorian terrace house would be enough to send a car round the Earth five times, says English Heritage. The energy crisis is solved! As long as there's an inexhaustible supply of Victorian Terrace Houses... 54. Deep Throat is reportedly the most profitable film ever. It was made for $25,000 (£13,700) and has grossed more than $600m. I totally knew this. 82. Former Labour MP Oona King's aunt is agony aunt Miriam Stoppard. Someone explain "agony aunt"? 98. Nettles growing on land where bodies are buried will reach a foot higher than those growing elsewhere. Well, duh.
• Thanks fish tick! *starts humming "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts"...*
• 41. Tactically, the best Monopoly properties to buy are the orange ones: Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street. Hahahahaha! Those aren't the orange properties! Silly British! Everybody knows they're called Rue St-Jean, Rue Ste-Catherine, and Rue St-Jacques!
• TP made a Grinch joke LOL!
• Someone explain "agony aunt"? Like "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers" Did anyone else notice that this is LAST YEAR'S article. You all should have known these things by now!
• Wait - so it's already 2007? Shit.
• TenaciousPettle wrote: "Yes, but I've hard that his shoes are two sizes too small." Damn you, TP. That was my thought exactly. And here I felt clever and original.
• I read that as "his shorts are two sizes too small".
• 8. Devout Orthodox Jews are three times as likely to jaywalk as other people, according to an Israeli survey reported in the New Scientist. The researchers say it's possibly because religious people have less fear of death. I thought it was because on the Sabbath, devout Orthodox Jews can't use the traffic lights, since it would constitute as operating machinery, i.e. work?
• Shouldn't stop them from using crosswalks though. Shomer fucking shabbos.
• What the fuck does that have to do with Vietnam, man?
• Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate? ...in an octopus' garden, under the sea...