11.22.06
Damn Cool Wallpaper.
Awesome wall. Now all you have to do is find that list from last week…
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Crazy Marathon Monks – Run 2 Marathons A Day For 100 Days Straight
Ironman triathletes are wimps compared to these guys. 7 year ordeal ending with them running 52.2 miles each day for 100 days in a row – and if they fail to complete it even one day, they are supposed to kill themselves.
This crap makes me feel a little lazy.
Boston University offers white scholarship
Looking to draw attention to what they call the “worst form of bigotry confronting America today,” Boston University’s College Republicans are circulating an application for a “Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship” that requires applicants be at least 25 percent Caucasian.
The 19 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Death
1. After being decapitated, the average person remains conscious for an additional
15-20 seconds. Talk about a way to go.
2. Mourning your dear departed cat? You could shave your eyebrows like the
ancient Egyptians used to. Then again, maybe a trip to the pet cemetery would
be easier.
3. May want to rethink what you bury your loved ones in. An old wives’
tale claims that if a woman is buried wearing the color black, she’ll
come back to haunt the family.
4. Speaking of preventing hauntings, yet another old wives tale led to the
institution of burial wreaths. It was believed that the wreath would encircle
the spirit of the dead person, thereby preventing them from returning from the
grave.
5. In 1931, Henry Ford decided to preserve his friend, Thomas Edison’s
last dying breath. He kept it in a bottle. Hope he put a label on that one.
6. One of the main reasons cowboys carried pistols in the 1800’s was
to avoid being dragged to death by their horse. You think they could have just
gotten bigger stirrups.
7. The last words spoken by Union General John Sedgewick were, “They
(the Confederate soldiers) couldn’t hit an elephant from this dis…”
8. So much for the curse of good ole King Tut. Despite reports that all twenty-two
people who were present at the exhumation kicked the bucket, twenty-one were
still kicking ten years later.
9. If someone plans to jump off Mount Everest to commit suicide, you’ll
need a lot of patience. It takes the average person 2.5 minutes to hit bottom.
And we don’t want to know who timed it.
10. Here’s a job I definitely wouldn’t want to have. When Pyrenees
beekeepers die, someone has to go around and splash every single one of their
bees with black ink.
11. John Bowman, a tanner from Vermont believed that after his death he would
be reincarnated with his pre-deceased wife and children. So, he ordered his
house staff to have dinner on the table every night, just in case. They finally
stopped in 1950 when the money finally dried up.
12. Think your décor is bad? Oscar Wilde’s last words were, “My
wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got
to go” He fought the wallpaper and the wallpaper won.
13. An old superstition stated that if the doors in the house were locked,
the soul of a dying person couldn’t get out.
14. Yet another superstition warns against pointing at a funeral procession,
with the dire warning that you’ll die within a month. More proof for that
whole three fingers pointing back at you thing.
15. Might want to read the labels a little more carefully. Nearly 2,500 lefties
are killed every year using products meant for righties. Who knew? Now, just
back away from those right-handed scissors.
16. A pet-parrot caused a ruckus at President Andrew Jackson’s funeral.
His crime? Swearing during the ceremony. Guess he should have given Polly just
one more cracker.
17. That ballpoint pen? The one you’re chewing on? Might want to put
it down. 100 people are killed every year by choking on a ballpoint pen. Which
proves the old quote about the pen being mightier than the sword. At least some
of the time.
18. Apparently, they really are virtually destructible. A cockroach can reportedly
live up to 9 days without it’s head. The only reason they finally kick
over? Starvation.
19. And you thought sex appeal was the first to go. Allegedly, it’s actually
your sight that goes first when you die. It’s your hearing that’s
the last to go…. What was that?
The 19 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Death
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Playstation 3 & The Ladies of eBay
I noticed women of ebay posing provocatively — presumably to boost sales. How did this come about? In an effort to limit fraudulent listings, ebay is requiring PS3 and Wii sellers to photographs of receipts, user names, and consoles… So a few entrepreneurs must have recalled their Advertising 101 ’sex sells’ lesson. I took tons of screen grabs!
Worlds Highest Website
Welcome to the World
’s Highest Website! Currently, it’s 18.939 kilometers high (that’s about 11.769 miles), and an enormous pleasure to scroll. Enjoy.
For fine print and technical details, either scroll down by yourself or take the elevator, which offers light speed hypertext transportation for free.
