Posts from — November 2008

This painting by George Tooker is a pwerful statement about the human cost of bureaucracy.  The human beings are reduced to mere “cases”.  Officials are faceless? Fingers on calculators?  What are your thoughts?

•  Clam Jerky:  If you hate clams this will take you to another level. Think of all the salty seafood chewing goodness next time you need a snack.  We are going to hit new bizarre levels in this one.

•  Musk Lifesavers:  Suposeably they taste like soap and insense.  Well what is musk?  Musk is defined as a penetrating odor obtained from a gland of the male musk deer, which is situated between its stomach and genitals. So what we are talking about is deer sweat lifesavers.

•  Canned Whole Chicken:  A whole chicken in a thick gew stuffed in a can.  I can’t think of anything else to say.  But you can eat it without heating it.

•  Canned Brains in Milk:  Brains in all their creamy goodness in a rich milk gravy.  Toss them up with some eggs.

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• The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

• It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

• One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).

• The average man’s penis is three times the length of his thumb.

• Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

• A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.

• There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

• Women blink twice as often as men.

• The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

• Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

• If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

• Men that read this are probably still busy checking their thumbs.