Well DUH! Calendar entries from the weekend

Stupid Science

In the 1800s, smoking tabacco was considered safe, but matches weren't. Poisonous phosporous was used to ignite the matches, called Lucifers. This led to a deformity of the bones called phossy jaw, particularly prevalent among workers in the match factories. Another unfortunate side effect resulted from the invention of matches: It made smoking so much easier that the number of smokers increased rapidly.

Dumb Crooks

In 1991, a Florida man who weighed 475 pounds was arrested in an airport after a police dog sniffed out ten pounds of cocaine that the man had hidden in the folds of his enormous stomach.

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Government by the Idiots

When President Jimmy Carter's daughter Amy brought home a school assignment about labor history, she got help from several labor experts in her father's cabinet. Together the president's daughter and the government experts got a C on the project.

Knoppix

So yeah, I'm a little slow with the Linux thing.

After hearing many praises for it from mineral777, I am going to mess around with Knoppix 3.3 sometime soon. Just burned a copy of it to CD.

Mmmm! Something new!

Nitzer Ebb

Kind of looked goofy in the video for Fun to Be Had. Guess maybe that's why my friends used to make fun of them.

Also, I thought Evan Dando looked different than what I'm seeing on the TV. Memory's going, I guess.

Lastly, I love The Alternative.

Inspiral Carpets

Whoa. I knew what Inspiral Carpets looked like, but I'd never seen a video of theirs.

They really seem to like being in front of the camera. Poor guy with the phallic haircut. Sad, really.

And if a double decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die. . .

And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side--well the pleasure, the privilege is mine. . .

Yet ANOTHER video I've never seen!

Also did NOT know that Morrissey had approached Mick Jones about singing for the The Clash. They went with Joe Strummer and Moz was never given an audition. Hmmm, what could have been, or not been.

Mmmm, Kim AND Kelley Deal are on now. Wheeeee!

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