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Great company and conversation last night.  (AM note to self ...  white wine, red wine, beer and rich food does not a happy man make).  Sitting around the table exchanging informed comments:

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When adults toss and turn while they sleep, they turn to the left, the right and face the ceiling.  Thus, an adults nose is facing left, right or up while sleeping, and it is estimated that the tossing and turning covers a cumulative distance of about 43 meters.  Apparently, an adult will not sleep with nose pointed down.  This little known fact accounts for why we don’t fall out of bed while we sleep.

Children, on the other hand, will sleep with nose pointed down, and thus occasionally will fall out of bed.  I wonder why this is?

I am by nature, a polite person.  Thus, when the God peddlers arrive at my door, I am loath to be rude.  I never had the courage to scream “God is dead” like my friend Bob does - just before he drops a water balloon out of the second floor.  Today, I decided to let Kes and Que meet my uninvited guests at the front door.  They left - rapidly.

The next time (if there is one), Benson will meet them - but I doubt it will have the same impact.

Toilet Sex
The British government proposed privacy-rights legislation in January that would permit people to have sex in public restrooms as long as they could not be seen by others using the restroom. The week after, the California Patriot reported a university-funded gay students’ Web site was openly discussing which restrooms on campus were the most hospitable for public sex (acts which are still illegal in California).Daily Telegraph (London), 1-30-03

Consider the “Prince Albert,” named after its most famous owner, Queen Victoria’s husband.

In the early 1800s, popular men’s fashion was all about really tight pants. In order to avoid unsightly bulges, men would have a ring pierced in their penis which they could then latch onto a hook inside the pants. It was the only time in history when “pants-ing” was not funny at all. 

Did you know -”The word “yo-yo” and the modern yo-yo design come from the Philippines. Unlike the original Chinese and Greek yo-yos, Philippine yo-yos (the word means “come come” or “come back” in the native Tagalog language) had the ability to “sleep.” This unique toy may have been an adaptation of the Chinese yo-yo, or it may have developed out of a Philippine hunting weapon. In any case, it dates back at least a few hundred years in the region.

In the 1920s, a Philippine immigrant named Pedro Flores decided to bring this yo-yo design to the United States. He achieved some success right away, and in 1929, he sold his company to a businessman named Donald Duncan. Duncan trademarked the name “yo-yo” and, over the next few decades, built his company up into the premiere yo-yo manufacturer.

Duncan’s competitors released similar products, under several different names (including “twirler” and “whirl-a-gig”). But the public adopted the term “yo-yo,” leading the rival companies to challenge Duncan’s trademark. In 1965, the Federal Court of Appeals ruled that the term had become generic, and so could be used by anyone. In the same year, the Duncan company went bankrupt, selling the Duncan name to the Flambeau Plastics Company, which still sells Duncan-brand yo-yos today._”

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