Things that Make You Say, Hmmm

[discreet_chaos]

This just flashed onto my Yahoo! and I thought it worth clipping;
On Jan 1, 1600, the human population was 536,870,911. If the first vampire came into existence that day and bit one person a month, there would have been two vampires by Feb. 1, 1600. A month later there would have been four, and so on. In just two-and-a-half years the original

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[eparchos]

OMG look: something every first-semester biology or statistics course teaches!
Sounds like Mr. "I'm some random Greek fucktard teaching at Nobody Cares University" didn't learn his population dynamics....

[discreet_chaos]

OMG! I've found the only geek geekier than the nerd who tried to mathematically disprove vampires.

[eparchos]

And yet I'm not the professor in the room and neither are you.

[discreet_chaos]

BTW: I had a friend who wanted to get his MBA in Florida because he loved the beaches, but he had a real hard time finding an accredited program and I don't think he ever did, so instead he continued his education in Belgium for the beer.

(Of course, it was around 1985 when he was looking, so things may be different today)

[flainn]

Also something that makes you say "Hmm,":

Tonight Glenn Beck was saying that if you put Paris Hilton in a Hummer H2 and Michael Moore in a Toyota Prius, and they both drive 12,000 miles per year, they'll both burn the same amount of gas, since being overweight makes you get worse gas mileage.

Then he admitted the study assumed Paris Hilton weighs just over 100 lbs and Michael Moore weighs just under 3,000 lbs.