Be careful out there

Keep in mind that 15% of all female chickens have penises.  That’s right, they look like males but aren’t.  If you’re a professional chicken sex-finder, you get paid $700 buck a day and have to have keen sight and a steady hand.
I thought the bar scene was rough - imagine being a chicken

Pearl Jam Revisted

Today in 1991, Pearl Jam released their first album, called Ten, which was the number of NBA player Mookie Blaylock. The album sold over 10 million copies. That’s a lot. To compare, the top album of 2006 was Carrie Underwood’s which sold 3.7 million.
The band was orginally called Mookie Blaylock, but Eddie [...]

Utterly Useless is Utterly Awesome

Is it wrong that i can relate to this guy? I didn’t know the trivia about Hudsucker Proxy, and i dig his little game about finding something that happened each year when making change.  (click on the image to watch his video)

Happy 4th

The first motion in the Continental Congress for independence was made on June 4, 1776. After hard debate, the Congress voted unanimously, but secretly, for independence from Britain on July 2. The Congress reworked the text of the Declaration until July 4, when the 12 colonies voted for adoption and released a copy signed only [...]

What’s Going On this Weekend? Let’s Talk About What Going In!

Why go out tonight? How about 25 reasons why….

If you don’t drink that booze, someone else will - now get off your ass
Bad ass nicknames like “Chuggybear,” “The Alabama Hamma,” “Pukey McPukerson” are not awarded to people who stay home to do laundry (ahem: kmr)
This is the one and only night your soul mate [...]

Albert’s Relative Love

This is a reminder that today is Albert Einstein’s birthday. If he were still alive in 2007, he would turn 128.
Few people realize that the Nobel Prize winner married his cousin, Elsa Einstein Lowenthal, after his first marriage dissolved in 1919. Elsa was Albert’s first cousin (maternally) and his second [...]

Hitler’s Name

Before World War II, only 2% of all people in Germany were named Adolf, and during Hitler’s reign, he forbade Germans to name children after him.  So, you are almost guaranteed to never meet anyone with the name Adolf Hitler.

The Who?

I found this list of explanations of some band names. It’s pretty interesting, especially the Blue Oyster Cult one…
Hot Tuna - they were originally called Hot Shit but their record company made them change the 2nd word to Tuna.
Pearl Jam - Eddie Vedder came up with the name in honor of his Aunt Pearl’s [...]

Dead Men (and Horses) in DC Parks

Living in DC, we get our fair share of circles to drive around. On many of them there are statues of war heros. I rarely check out who they are and what they did, but ever since i read this little fact i’ve been much more interested:
If a statue in the park of [...]

Lots of People in the Air

I was just travelling throughout the US and Europe over the past two weeks.  I’ve been to the following airports in the past 3 weeks: Washignton DC, Boston, Chicago, Minnesota, London, Paris, Milan, Bucarest, and Cluj (Romania).  Each time i hit a new airport, i’m amazed at the type of people and kids that are [...]