Well DUH! Calendar entries that I missed last week

What Were They Thinking?

Here's an interesting observation about the people who go on ocean cruises from writer David Foster Wallace in his fascinating book, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: "I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the Guest Relations Desk (on a cruise ship) whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet, whether the skeet shooting will be held outside, whether the crew sleeps on board, and what time the Midnight Buffet is."

Stupid Style

Fashionable women in New York City go to foot surgeons to have liposuction on their toes or foot wrinkles removed with Botox. Why? So their feet will fit into designer shoes that cost as much as $12,000 a pair.

That's the price other people pay for a car they can drive while wearing Keds.

Dumb Plays in the Face of Fate

Twirling hoops around the waist--the fad that swept the country. Kids didn't seem to have much trouble with it. But when adults tried to spin the hoops, they wound up with pulled muscles and pinched nerves. Finally, so many adults died from twirling-induced heart attacks that doctors issued a warning: hoops kill. But we're not talking about hula hoops or the 1950s. This happened in England in the fourteenth century with wooden hoops.

Well DUH! Calendar -- today's entry

Popped Culture

Hollywood director Paul Verhoeven made such movies as Starship Troopers, RoboCop, and Basic Instinct. But when Verhoeven was a little kid, there was one film that scared him so much he couldn't sleep at night. Which movie? The comedy Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. "You're very susceptible when you're that age," he explained.