Comments on: Teach Me Something Tuesday #4

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:28:17 +0000

Currently use of guinea pigs in laboratory testing is declining. With the advent of molecular biology and gene sequencing, researchers have discovered that they have no idea where they came from (genetically). Many believe g. pig genes don’t match other members of the rodent order close enough to continue justifying the g. pig’s spot in this order. The other close match, lagomorphs (bunnies), is just that, a close match – so they aren’t lagomorphs either.
So to sum it up, they were probably just dropped from a spaceship into the middle of Peru.

By: Jum

Jum — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:24:45 +0000

Wow, already a month of Teach me something Tuesdays. Adored this post, so cute and informative, if a little melancholic. Everytime ‘is’ was crossed through for ‘was’ I felt my bottom lip threaten to go.

Since am again devoid of interesting facts to share, thought I would share a couple of my favourite words instead:

mellifluous – adj. (Of voice or words) sweet as honey.

susurration – n. whispering, rustling.

He spoke in a mellifluous susurration

By: Ex Astris Scientia

Ex Astris Scientia — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:15:01 +0000

100,000 calories per day!!!
Holy crap!!!!!
O.D. must have stood for Outrageous Dump!

By: TwoPi

TwoPi — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:04:00 +0000

According to a variety of sources (including a BBC documentary and an article in the New York Post in 2002 — so you know it’s true), Elvis Presley was consuming over 100,000 calories per day toward the end of his life. Apparently, much of that came in form of a loaf of french bread, coated with a jar of pb, a jar of jelly, fried bacon and bacon fat. Two of those per day, goes the rumor. [I have a hard time seeing that add up to the reported 42,000 calories per loaf, but....]

Which calls to mind two questions:

1. Could it be that the Dodos died of a lousy diet? Or did they all OD on the toilet?

2. Just how gross would Elvis’s nose grease have been?

Mmmm. The ultimate Elvis collectable….

By: Burner

Burner — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:49:28 +0000

I was in your fair city this past week and you are correct about the subways. Nasty dungeons under the city smelling of urine! But the hot guys in Central Park with practically no clothes on made up for it.

As for a fun fact: If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

By: Jere

Jere — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:56:19 +0000

Craig, people have apparently also called you a dork. You’ve even used it in your blog tagline. But dork has two meanings…

dork (dÃ´rk) n.
1. Slang A stupid, inept, or foolish person: “the stupid antics of America’s favorite teen-age cartoon dorks” (Joshua Mooney).
2. Vulgar Slang The penis.

[Perhaps from dork, variant of dirk.]
dork’iÂ·ness n., dork’y adj.

So, when I see your tagline, I sometimes think “Good penis-y fun” and blush.

By: Mark M.

Mark M. — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:48:32 +0000

I am so confused by f-dot….
Tired of not talking to a person when calling companies? Me too. Go to http://www.gethuman.com to avoid the hassle, you will be glad you learned about this website today…thank you puntabulous

By: chamblee54

chamblee54 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:31:55 +0000

I don’t know how to break this to you, but people are saying that you are a doo doo.

By: Sven

Sven — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:09:39 +0000

The quagga, like the dodo, was hunted to extinction by man, though not until the late nineteenth century. It was a kind of zebra and only one was ever photographed. It was also the first extinct animal ever to have its DNA studied.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:03:11 +0000

FDot – Woo! I am awesome!