BBC News => Australian ‘Nessie’ fossils found
Australia was once home to ancient reptiles that swam in huge icy lakes, fossil evidence suggests.
“Huge icy lakes”, eh? If that doesn’t describe Loch Ness, I don’t know what does.
So, now they have more physical evidence that a Nessie type monster lived in Australia than there is to prove one lives in Scotland…
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BBC News => Flying reptile mystery ‘solved’
A rare skull specimen found in Brazil shows the crest appeared at puberty, suggesting it was used to attract attention from the opposite sex.
If things that appear puberty are meant to attract attention, does that mean acne is sexy?
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Why do people eat at In-N-Out Burger?
I ate there once, years ago, and remember being completely underwhelmed by the experience. I also remember being staggered at how many people were waiting to eat there. It was so completely unmemorable that I didn’t even remember why I was unimpressed.
We happened to be at an In-N-Out Burger the other day and I remember it all… but somehow I think I’ll forget again.
Why was I underwhelmed? A pretty darned ordinary hamburger and only three main items on the menu: A burger, a cheeseburger and a double cheeseburger.
If they’d been particularly good I suppose I could see the fanaticism but they weren’t.
Why then was it standing room only, people waiting for tables? Why were there 30 (yes, 30!) cars waiting in the drive-through?
My only conclusion is that they all want the free “In-N-Out Burger” bumper sticker so they can scrape of the ‘B’ and ‘r’ to have an “In-N-Out urge” bumper sticker and titter like a 10-year who just caught sight of a bra strap.
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I was eating a lunchtime the other day at a restaurant that shall remain nameless (although I did review their hot dogs in an earlier post) and happened to use their restroom.
In keeping with their Chicago theme, they had this plastic-laminated poster on the wall of the men’s room. You’ve got to love a classy establishment that has a poster with a stripper on it.
It’s tough to see, but in the close-up of her rather unbelievable breasts, you can see the finger greasy fingerprint where someone visiting the restroom copped a feel… of a poster.
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Over a month ago we went into Carl’s Jr. near my office – their air conditioning was broken. Figuring it couldn’t possibly be still broken, I tried again this last week during the height of the heat wave.
Their AC was still broken, but they’ve lashed up this stylish rig in their dining room.
Fix your AC for cryin’ out loud!
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Not a chance, son.
It has been HOT this month. It hit 118º the other day, but it sure is nice to “cool off” in the pool – even though the pool water has reached 91º.
It’s against my policy to review buffet pizza because it invariably sucks; however, I accidentally ended up eating at a new buffet pizza place (I didn’t know when I walked in the door)
I’m not going to review it, but suffice it to say that Pizzasta was a “disasta”…
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I’m quite pleased Michelle likes the new Doctor Who (and the classic stuff, too). The other day she was eating noodles, and kept hanging a big bunch out of her mouth saying, “look, I’m an Ood”.
Every time I tried to take a picture with the cameraphone, she’d such the noodles in and all I got were shots like this.
If I’d have gotten a really good picture of her as an Ood, I’d have sent it into Totally Doctor Who. I wonder what they would have done with a submission from the United States?
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I love my MacBook, but… for the last few weeks it’s been frustrating me no end. About three weeks ago the wireless connections would start dropping suddenly. My other wireless computers experienced no such problem, and the problem would occur on 3 different wireless networks.
Some days it would happen once or twice, other days 20 or 30 times.
Then, last week, one day it started to power off completely without warning and without a trace in the error log. It did it 5 or 6 times the first day. The next day, I could barely keep it turned on. It dropped 30 to 40 times. Sometimes right during the boot sequence.
The next day, it happened once… it hasn’t done it since.
But, the day after that, the wireless started dropping like flies again.
It’s going to be such a pain in the butt to take it in to Apple for warranty repair – I’ve gotten completely settled in to this computer and can’t do without it. 🙁
Much though I love Doctor Who and have for many, many years (1975 or 1976 to be exact), there’s one thing that can be said… the incidental music has always been a bit… clanky. It’s too loud, it’s crude, jarring… but… I own all the soundtracks anyway.
The new series Who music is also somewhat jarring in a different way… it’s too constant. It’s always there, and it’s a bit heavy-handed, but musically it’s pretty good. I’m glad to hear that that a soundtrack is coming out soon.
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