April 2010
“So…are you on Rumspringa?”
– Greatest pickup line I have ever heard.
We learned about dinosaurs in elementary school...
tdl:
anyone else find this ridiculous?
We also learned about dinosaurs and bacteria before we learned about atoms.
And atoms before quarks.
'Mass illness' hits Afghan schoolgirls in Kunduz →
The Taliban - which oppposes female education - denies carrying out an attack, the Reuters news agency says.
The girls said they noticed a strange smell in class before the onset of their symptoms, but health officials said the gas remains unidentified.
I’m sure they just ate something.
Horse Feathers - Cascade
Just saw them in...
Environmentalists
Me: What did you do for Earth Day?
Mom: Well, your father says he decided not to fart.
Me: Hmm.
Mom: (whisper) But I think he lied.
Good Morning: And Happy (Er, Sad) Equal Pay Day
newsweek:
equalitymyth:
Today, April 20, is Equal Pay Day—a yearly marker of how long women must work into the current year (at 77 cents per every male dollar) to earn what men earned in the year past. We’ll be updating throughout the day, but here are a few figures to get your morning started:
8 months of groceries The amount a woman could buy for a family of four if she were paid equal...
Say Hi (To Your Mom) - Before We Were Brittle
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Mushmelon
Me: (on phone with Mom) I bought too much cantelope last week so I brought it to work, and I asked the office if anyone wanted some mushmelon and they all looked like I was crazy.
Mom: (laughing) That's because your dad made that word up.
Dad: (in the background) Did not!
“Add salt and freshly ground black people.”
– Pasta Bible, a cookbook printed (and recalled) in Australia by Penguin Publishing.
“Flavor chemists have found that cilantro aroma is created by a half-dozen or so...”
– Harold McGee’s NYT article on Cilantro.
See, science agrees that it tastes like soap.
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What gets wetter as it dries?
Magnesium sulfate.
