Amazing Stuff
No Need to Build a Better One
The Week reports that a 155 year old mousetrap in a British museum caught a mouse last month! It was not baited, but still worked after all those years. A label on the trap said that it would "last a lifetime."
Clever Computer Trick
A guy wrote to the American Legion magazine: "I changed my password to 'incorrect' .. so, whenever I forget it, the screen message says: 'Your password is incorrect.'"
Careful!
The Readers Digest reports on an English Advertisement for a hedge clipper:
"A built-in safety switch prevents accidental starting and blades will stop when you take one hand off."
A Kangaroo Version of Trump?
The Week says that there is a 6 foot 7 inch, 196 pound kangaroo with bulging biceps that has become a star in Australia. Roger, aged 9, lives in the Alice Springs' kangaroo sanctuary and loves to flaunt his pulchritude to his fans' delight. He acts as a bully, loves to wrestle with the other males, and is very protective of his "women". Humans would be crazy to get too close to Roger.
A New Snow White?
The other night, Elaine was watching a "Snow White" movie. It was the most childish and stupid movie I've seen for a while. However, that was just my opinion on watching for ten minutes. Give me the original movie anytime.
I remember attending that movie with my mother and was scared to death by the "Wicked Witch".. my mother told me I would cover my eyes whenever she appeared on screen. I must have been three or four years old at the time, but I never will forget that big witch face filling the screen.
In 2017, the movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" will be 80 years old. It was the first full-length animated feature produced in the U.S. Twenty years before, the world's first-ever full-length animated movie was created in Argentina. The movie was titled: El Apostol. I'll have to see if I can get a copy to watch. Meanwhile.. can you name the seven dwarfs?
Long ago, a subway was partially built in Cincinnati, Ohio, using a drained canal tract as its basis. A long tunnel was created, which had three stations that have never been used. The whole long-term project fizzled out in 1948. For awhile, when the U.S. was scared that Russia might try to fight us, the tunnel was used as a fall-out shelter. I understand that the tunnel has lain unused for at least 50 years now, although there might be underground tours available. I have never seen that advertised. I'll have to ask my brother, Joe about it. He lives in Ohio.
This tunnel thing intrigues me. I assume Cincinnati is a city with at least 200,000 inhabitants, enough for supporting an underground "city" as they have in Montreal or Philadelphia. I think they need a Marion Berry type mayor.. or a William Donald Schaeffer type mayor. They would get things moving. In my humble opinion.
Domino's Vobiscum
Readers Digest reports on a TWITTER exchange between an angry customer and an apologetic Domino's Pizza man:
Customer: "I ordered a Pizza and it came with no toppings or anything. It's just bread!"
Domino's Manager: "We're sorry to hear about this.
Customer: (Minutes later): "Never mind, I opened the pizza box upside down!"
Doesn't shake like Jelly
Fast Company magazine quotes Gillian Morris (Hitlist CEO) "I discovered my first pair of Melissa shoes in a thrift store. They're jelly shoes but look like patent leather, combining comfort and boardroom readiness."
First, what the hell is a million dollar CEO doing shopping in a thrift store?
And what the hell is a "jelly shoe?"
I now know that this is a "plastic" shoe. The magazine printed the picture of what is probably a pair of jelly shoes as mentioned. It shows 5 inch heels on a pink, clunky looking pair of shoes. Why any woman would subject herself to the torture of wearing these things is beyond me. I'll bet that if some young cherry-bomber was hiding under the board room table, he would note that these high-heels would be mostly off the owner's feet.
And I didn't even know it
For Elaine's supper tonight, I ordered a grilled cheese sandwich. She's been having stomach troubles and we thought that some cheese might make her feel better. Was I surprised to find out that this is National Grilled Cheese Week. Wow! Was I prescient or not?
Last week was National Peanut Butter and Jelly week. I wondered why I had a container of peanut butter and a container of jelly mixed in with my order of chicken wings.
I can't wait until next week to find out what the celebrated food will be. National Tripe Week? I think not. National Garlic Week... that would be one I would like. National Liver Week? No no no!
I wonder if they have National Horsemeat Week in Europe. I enjoyed it when it was the ersatz ingredient for Wiener Schnitzel. I understand that there is legislation somewhere in the mill to ban all horsemeat in the United States.
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