Fool me once…
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Ah! April fools day! Time to loosen the tops on the salt shakers and put salt in the sugar bowl.
museumofhoaxes.com gives us their list of the 100 best April Fools jokes in history. Here are the top ten. CLICK HERE to see the rest.
#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
1957: The respected BBC news show Panorama announced [...]
VERY Unusual Gifts
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008By this time, the people left on your holiday gift list are the hardest to buy for. How about one of these unusual items? I guarantee they won’t receive duplicates!
ZAKY INFANT PILLOW
The Zaky is an ergonomic infant pillow designed by a Mom to mimic the size, weight, touch, and feel of her hand and [...]
My Fellow Americans
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Politically correct non-humanoid nomenclature…
INSENSITIVE SENSITIVE
Cow Bovine American
Lobster Crustacean American
Crab Crustacean American
Shrimp Invertebrate American
Virus Viral American
Germs Microbial American
Bird Avian American
Dolphin Cetaecean American
Dog Canine American
Mushroom Fungal American
Cat Feline American
Pig Porcine American
Bug Insectile American
In the interest of promoting inter-species relations, we had some of these made into dandy looking Tee-shirts, Mugs, Sweat Shirts and more that you can find [...]
Making More Time for Work?
Monday, November 3rd, 2008From “The Onion”: A humorous look at the practical applications of multi-dimensional travel…
CINCINATTI—According to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Labor, skyrocketing consumer prices coupled with stagnant wages have forced many Americans to work a fourth shift in another dimension in order to make ends meet.
Read the entire story at The Onion
ScienceJunkies for President!
Monday, October 6th, 2008To see a fun website that let’s you create your own personalized political campaign ad CLICK HERE!
Just enter your or a friend’s name to see what your own campaign commercial would look like. You can then share the URL with your friends so they can view your commercial too!
“Political Science”?
Unconventional Inventions
Friday, September 26th, 2008When I was about six years old I fell in love with the Mouse Trap game by Milton Bradley. I was drawn in by the idea of all those colorful gadgets, gears and gizmos working together to set off the trap at the end. It’s funny but when my kids saw this game (yes, it’s [...]
“You can quote me on that”
Friday, August 22nd, 2008A handful of memorable and humorous quotes from some famous men of science…
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this [...]
The “Shoppie Awards”
Saturday, May 10th, 2008Our email in-boxes have all been touched by them. Some are so blatently faked that we must wonder at the gullability of the ones who earnestly forwarded them to us as genuine. Sporting subject titles such as “Really Amazing Pictures” and “Winner of the National Geographic Picture of the Year Award”, these images have long circulated in cyberspace [...]
The Sci-Fi Movie Plotinator
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Mad Libs meets the Sci Fi Movie Channel.
As I first mentioned in my post titled Sci-Fi Movie Survival Tips, My 10-year-old Science Junkie and I are huge science fiction movie fans. We love to make a game of figuring out which characters will die first and which will survive until the end. The Sci Fi Channel [...]
It’s a Gas!
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Pooting, Tooting, Farting, Breaking Wind, Cutting the Cheese, whatever you want to call it, the average person produces about half a liter of intestinal gas per day which is expelled in the form of flatulence about 14 times daily.
The following web links get into the science behind this smelly but vital bodily function:
Kidzworld: The Science of [...]
