Walk much?
Take a step: You’ve just used 200 mscles.
Archive for February, 2005
Hut! Hut!
What’s the scientific name for any object that’s shaped like a football? A “procate spheroid”
Where’s the beef?
A New Yorker could eat out every night of their life and never eat at the same restaurant twice.
Career Note:
No only child has ever been elected US president.
Snow Joke:
Per capita, Alaskans eat twice as much ice cream as the rest of the nation.
What did you do all day?
The average American is exposed to 1,600 commercials and advertizements a day.
Would you like fries with that?
The single most ordered item in American restaurants: French fries
Hop to it:
In the 13th century, Europeans baptized children with beer.
Bills are sent for cigarettes bought online; at least $1.7 million owed
The Michigan Treasury Department has sent bills to state residents who purchased cigarettes online to avoid Michigan’s high taxes. One pack-a-day smoker received a bill for $2,500 in back taxes. If a simple subpoena of customer data allows them to easily go after lost cigarette taxes, how long until state treasuries across the country subpoena [...]
Insect rule of thumb:
Drunken ants always fall on their right side.