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Top 15 Amazing Coincidences. As luck would have it, I was looking for this when I found it!
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What’s really going on when we dream? A Harvard psychologist says dreams are really just thinking in a different biochemical state.
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What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC. “Networks are built on the assumption that audience size is what matters most. Content is secondary; it exists to attract passive viewers who will sit still for advertisements.”
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Could you pass eight grade science? Take the quiz! I made an A, partially because I help my fifth-grader study these exact things for her science class.
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Fark Headlines of the Year. The highest award for the lowest form of humor. I still love puns.
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A man of many words. Except they are all the same.
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The rock ‘n’ roll bridge. If you’ve never seen the video of the Tacoma Narrows bridge breaking up in 1940, you are in for a eye-opening experience.
When I was a kid, in the early sixties, movie theaters stilled showed news reels. I remember this one and no others.
I got a D+ on the quiz. A “redo” gave me a B+, for a recorded grade of C+. This was my average in science, while I got B’s and A’s in English and Social Studies. We won’t mention Math!
posted by gus on 1-3-2008 at 7:09 am
i got a b+, i’m proud, it’s been 12 years since 8th grade and i have no children to provide a refresher course.
posted by tami on 1-3-2008 at 8:33 am
Sadly only got a C.
Really enjoyed the coincidences article. It’s not coincidence that you consistently provide me with interesting stuff to read.
posted by Beth on 1-3-2008 at 10:51 am
I got a B-. It’s been at least 22 years since my college science courses…
posted by Karl on 1-3-2008 at 12:26 pm
Hmm. I got a B. Which is scary, because I’m in 6th Grade.
posted by Allegra on 1-3-2008 at 12:52 pm
A+ = 100%
Outdoing 5th graders isn’t really my style, but getting everything right often is.
Thank you. Thank you very much. (Yes, Elvis is dead and I’m not sad about that - I miss Jim Croce, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison a whole lot more.)
Good Night and Good Luck…
posted by Doc on 1-3-2008 at 1:36 pm
2 big coincidences that shoulda made that list:
1. Frank L. Baum’s name written on the lining of a coat bought at a thrift store for the guy in MGM’s production of The Wizard of Oz.
2. The guy who looks like Peter Griffen named Peter Griffen!
posted by Johnny Cat on 1-3-2008 at 9:37 pm