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Best headline today: Poisonous Fish Testicles Send 7 Japanese Diners to Hospital
…perhaps mostly because I’m picturing animate testicles going after the diners. Still, purposefully eating poisonous things (they did actually order them, it wasn’t like, ground up in sausage or anything) that have to be prepared *just so* in order not to kill you is pretty strange. Then again, people do a lot of strange things. Injecting your face with minute amounts of one of the deadliest toxins on earth just to look a little younger doesn’t make you seem like the brightest bulb, either.
Story for today (at the end I’ll reveal one of the ‘true’ bits, just in case…):
( Insert witty cut line here )
Inspired by these quotes about the LHC in the news:
"Besides, the random nature of quantum physics means that there is always a minuscule, but nonzero, chance of anything occurring, including that the new collider could spit out man-eating dragons."
"If the worst comes to pass, and there's now a slightly greater chance that it might, at least it might explain why we've never heard from extraterrestrial civilizations: Maybe they built Large Hadron Colliders of their own."
(The second leads to a few questions: - Is it the universe's way of pest control? Like flea medication... It uses subliminal messages to make advanced civilizations destroy themselves! And if so, is it being orchestrated by some all-knowing being (a god) or has the universe a consciousness of its own? ...or is it not the universe? Is it actually some alien population that... I dunno, needs black holes and/or strangelets, or whatever that dead goo the thing might turn our planet into for something?)
…perhaps mostly because I’m picturing animate testicles going after the diners. Still, purposefully eating poisonous things (they did actually order them, it wasn’t like, ground up in sausage or anything) that have to be prepared *just so* in order not to kill you is pretty strange. Then again, people do a lot of strange things. Injecting your face with minute amounts of one of the deadliest toxins on earth just to look a little younger doesn’t make you seem like the brightest bulb, either.
Story for today (at the end I’ll reveal one of the ‘true’ bits, just in case…):
( Insert witty cut line here )
Inspired by these quotes about the LHC in the news:
"Besides, the random nature of quantum physics means that there is always a minuscule, but nonzero, chance of anything occurring, including that the new collider could spit out man-eating dragons."
"If the worst comes to pass, and there's now a slightly greater chance that it might, at least it might explain why we've never heard from extraterrestrial civilizations: Maybe they built Large Hadron Colliders of their own."
(The second leads to a few questions: - Is it the universe's way of pest control? Like flea medication... It uses subliminal messages to make advanced civilizations destroy themselves! And if so, is it being orchestrated by some all-knowing being (a god) or has the universe a consciousness of its own? ...or is it not the universe? Is it actually some alien population that... I dunno, needs black holes and/or strangelets, or whatever that dead goo the thing might turn our planet into for something?)
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