Saturday, September 8, 2007
The First (Possible) Evidence of Extra Dimensions…
‘The neutrino is the oddball of particle physics. It has no charge and rarely interacts with other particles, but it comes in three flavors – electron, muon and tau – and madly oscillates from one flavor to the next as it travels along. [The term ‘flavor’ is not to be understood as implying that you...
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
Preventing Young Love in Two-Four Time…
'Chinese education officials thought dancing was a good idea for students to get more exercise and combat poor health and obesity. But now, following complaints from parents worried about a spread of “young love”, the same officials have decided to curb dancing, specifically, doing the waltz. The...
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Monday, September 3, 2007
Jewish Apes and Christian Pigs...
'The principal of an Islamic school has admitted that it uses textbooks which describe Jews as "apes" and Christians as "pigs" and has refused to withdraw them. Dr Sumaya Alyusuf confirmed that the offending books exist after former teacher Colin Cook, 57, alleged that children as young as five are...
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Saturday, September 1, 2007
Road-Kill Cook-Off
I humbly apologize to you all for giving you rather short notice of the goings-on at Bognor Regis! Many of you might have made earlier plans and would have found it rather difficult to change them, tempting though it might have been. However, you should have no problem adding the following event to...
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Friday, August 31, 2007
Quick, book a flight to Bognor Regis!
The International Bognor Regis Birdman is to be held on September 1-2! Men, both naked and in Mary Poppins costumes fling themselves from an elevated pier in human-powered flying machines for a $50,000 purse and a chance to smash the current distance record of 293 feet. (Discover, Sept 2007) Some of...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Today's Special - Bacon Ice Cream
Delaware's Udder Delight Ice Cream House is selling the popular breakfast meat mixed with ice cream. The flavor comes with a popular North Carolina pig-roasting sauce, which puts some [but not all!] customers off, likening the product to frozen barbecued food. The sauce's creator, Page Skelton,...
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Monday, August 27, 2007
Forget about that trip to McDonald’s…
'The dietetic vice of a century ago – the time of the three-bottle men – was alcoholic; now, we Americans at least, eat too much, especially too much meat. It is the concomitant of our prosperity. And to this effect Prof. Chittenden submits a most valuable and scientific work in which are detailed...
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Sunday, August 26, 2007
The Great American Extinction
‘Scientists have been arguing for years about what caused the die-off of both North American culture and many large animals near the end of the last ice age, about 13,000 years ago. Did hunters wipe out the mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths? Neither, says. L. Becker, a geochemist at...
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Friday, August 24, 2007
In Ukraine, it’s not a Bender, it’s Therapy…
The Crimean Stars Sanatorium has introduced a new regimen to treat stress, impotence and heart disease: “wine therapy.” New patients are prescribed one of seven prescription cocktails containing wine and herbs. Drinks are given out several times a day, and especially needy cases receive a booster of...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Today’s Special…Breast-Enlarging Cookies!
Why bother with expensive breast implants when the “F-cup cookie” from Japan will expand your front porch with just two biscuits daily. They contain “phytoestrogens”, an ingredient found in a plant from Thailand. It mimics the female hormone, theoretically helping cookie eaters to increase breast...
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