Whenever you're trying to determine mathamatically how delicious or disgusting something is, always remember to divide by how it smells.

Scientists call this the Olifactor.

I went outside a few minutes ago and walked across Copley Square for a snack. I then walked back to the Hancock Tower where I work. When I got back inside I noticed the strangest thing: I wasn't wet! I didn't bring an umbrella or a coat or anything! When I got back to my office I walked to the East Windows and the sky looked very strange indeed. ( Read more... )

I was reading Newsweek here at work and I strongly suggest people read it this week. Stephen Colbert is the guest editor and he's quite hilarious. He took over the Editorial, displays his "edited" version of the back page opinion piece and replaced all the letters in the reader's letters with fake letters from him that he'd "written over the years ( Read more... )

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The reason I asked my question yesterday about famous vs well known.

I was reading comments on someone's post and mgrasso said something that ended with the phrase "happy go lucky".

And I thought

Ah, Happy Golucky, the less famous, but better known cousin of Holly Golightly.

And I started wondering if that middle part made any sense to anyone but me.

A few years ago I heard on the radio that between Memorial Day and Labor day weekends, Americans eat something like 6 billion hot dogs. Yes, 6,000,000,000. This number seemed large to me, so I divided it by an approximate American population and determined how many hot dogs that was per man, woman and child. I increased the estimate to account for ( Read more... )

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( hilarious behind the cut, that is )

Found this on-line today

Boiled down to essentials, a nervous system enables the organism to succeed in the four F's: feeding, fleeing, fighting and reproducing.