Category: Useless knowledge

Information you have no need for. Ever. Usually about me, but possibly about other trivial crap in the world.

Satan is after your children

This is really stupid. You don’t want to read it. I’m writing this completely for my own entertainment. It’s really stupid, even given my low standards on t3H Blahg.

Back in 1971, Pastor Jack Hyles laid down this exceptionally important message concerning the welfare of your children. Satan is assualting our culture’s values by starting at the root of our future – the children. Ohhhhh, won’t someone PLEASE think of the children?

Pastor Hyles got really upset after seeing how schools were corrupting our children. Someone, perhaps one of his delicate flock, had her delicate sensibilities affronted when she visited one of the local public schools.

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I thought “No!!!” was the key

med_sex_facts.jpgAccording to the January 1959 issue of Sexology magazine (sadly, no longer published – I learned of it from the always wonderful Modern Mechanix blog), the key to a mutually happy marriage is The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Sex. Thankfully, you can order it from the fine folks at Cadillac Publishing Company in New York.

Here are some of the things you can learn from this book, along with my guesses for the answers:

The climax in women

Typical male: They can do that?

The sex drive in women

Moderate to high when single. Non-existant after marriage.

Frigidity, its cause and cure

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Survey says…

Condoms designed to meet international size specifications are too big for many Indian men as their penises fall short of what manufacturers had anticipated, an Indian study has found.

The Indian Council of Medical Research, a leading state-run center, said its initial findings from a two-year study showed 60 percent of men in the financial capital Mumbai had penises about 1 inch shorter than those condoms catered for.

. . .

“One of the reasons for a failure of up to 20 percent (of condoms) is the association of the size of the condom to the erect penis,” the council’s Dr. Chander Puri told Reuters, adding another reason was couples often put them on in a hurry.

Sometimes, the news you have to pass on just needs no introductions, does it? I think Bill gets the reason right, too:

Listen, I totally know how that happened. “Manufacturers” just took a survey of men in India and asked them how large their penises were.

[tags]Indian men can’t fill their condoms[/tags]

Yahoo top searches

OK, since I have nothing better to do with my life than track down useless stats, I decided to check what the most searched for phrases or words are on the top search engines. I just find the results interesting to check on some times. As of the time of this writing, here are the top Google and Yahoo searches.  There are tons of search stats on these pages.  This is just a glimpse of what you can find.
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So what does this all mean?  Nothing really.  I just find in interesting.  Note that Google does their searches week-by-week (although you can also check out a monthly top searches, and even a full year once the year is complete) while Yahoo seems to just do a “to-date” top searches, with no obvious starting date for that.  Perhaps they track top searches since the inception of Yahoo?

I do wonder about all the people travelling to France, looking for a hotel.  But that’s just my curiousity, I suppose.

[tags]Top searches, Google and Yahoo top searches[/tags]

Pure joy for only $6.99?

This is another of the occasional “this funny [whatever] was sent to me by a cow-orker, so I’m posting it” posts I put up.

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Get a screaming, flying, fake (as opposed to living), fuzzy slingshot monkey for only $6.99 (plus shipping, of course, and maybe tax, depending on where you live). Utterly useless and stupid, but funny enough for me to want one. At $6.99, I thought about just ordering one, but I’m trying to stop the impulsive buying garbage I’ve done too often in the past.

What do you get when you cross a slingshot with a monkey?

Well, if it’s a real monkey, you probably get a dead monkey. But if it’s a toy monkey, you get this amazing new invention.

[tags]Flying slingshot monkey – $6.99[/tags]

Shocking story of the day

Thanks again to former cow-orker and sometimes commentor TimG for this story headline:

PlayStation 3 Sales Drop Sharply On Low Supply

Apparently, in the days following the PS3 launch, sales of the console dropped as available supply in stores went down. I guess sometimes those economists realllllly earn their pay. It is doubtful that any of us normal folks could have predicted fewer sales as fewer systems were to be found.

Sales of the PlayStation 3 console during its first full week of availability in Japan were sharply lower than those during the two days immediately following its launch, according to estimates published this week.

. . .

The sharply lower number of consoles sold is likely due to tight supply of the machines.

And there you have it. So if you are taking a course in economics, you might want to ask your professor if sales are likely to go down as supply goes down. It seems this is a trend that might hold true in other markets, and we’d hate to see you surprised in other markets.

[tags]Shocking headline of the day, Sales do not go up as number to be sold goes down[/tags]

My cow-orkers

EDIT: I’ve avoided this kind of stupid post for a year on my site.  I had a particularly annoying evening with a co-worker and ranted here about the people with whom I work.  That’s never a smart thing to do.  I won’t try to pretend I didn’t rant, but I will remove the rant I foolishly posted.  Personal blogs and work gripes do not belong together.