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by Jason English - January 22, 2008 - 11:29 AM

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• When nobody was looking, the “I Read Mental Floss” Facebook group reached 1,000 members. That’s quite a party. Let’s see if we can hit the big 1,100.

• Allison Keene’s new food trivia column has a name. We’re going with Troy’s suggestion, “Dietribes.” I also really liked “Readers, Digest!” But I dare not invite the litigious fury of the Reader’s Digest Group. Troy, I’ll be in touch about your free t-shirt (unless you’re in Manhattan and want your prize in fruit). Virtual high-fives to everyone for all the great responses.

• Keep sending us the quirky stuff you find online for The Weekend Links. Direct those messages to Allison at flossylinks@gmail.com. The 19th person to email her a link wins a mental_floss t-shirt. Starting…now.

• If you want to join our freelance photographer army, read the post below this one (or click here). And if you’ve got a fascinating Flickr photo, make it eligible for our ‘reader photo of the week’ trophy* by tagging it “flossphotos.”

*OK, there’s not really a trophy. A stock photo of a trophy, perhaps.

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Comments (9)

  1. Were the results of the dry T-shirt contest ever announced? Still mining data, or did I just miss it?

    posted by Tom on 1-22-2008 at 11:39 am

  2. Congrats to Troy! I wanted to do my own honorable mention of Amy’s ‘Meal on the _floss’ - I thought that one was pretty clever, too!

    posted by Roger on 1-22-2008 at 11:46 am

  3. We’re on the 38th ballot with the t-shirt contest.

    Actually, we picked 5 winners, but still haven’t heard back from everybody. We’ll unveil the winners to the world once their shirts have been designed.

    posted by Jason on 1-22-2008 at 11:50 am

  4. I, for one, am very proud to be featured on the facebook group as one of the officers. It’s pretty sweet.

    posted by Andrea on 1-22-2008 at 12:11 pm

  5. i joined the mental floss group on facebook. thanks for letting us know it was there. i had no idea!

    posted by nicole on 1-22-2008 at 1:15 pm

  6. *Sigh* I guess if we’re not in the know about Tshirts we din’t win Tom. :(

    posted by Lisa H on 1-22-2008 at 1:19 pm

  7. Wow! Getting an honorable mention is pretty exciting! Almost as exciting as winning a t-shirt. But not quite.

    For more on using strange punctuation as a copyright protection, check out the article on the Broadmoor Hotel on Wikipedia.

    posted by kate on 1-22-2008 at 2:39 pm

  8. Thanks, Roger! ;-)

    posted by Amy on 1-22-2008 at 4:47 pm

  9. I guess I came in sixth. Miss Congeniality!

    posted by fixedgear on 1-24-2008 at 7:38 am

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