How Michael Phelps’ physique makes him the perfect swimmer. “…just a normal person, from a different planet, a planet from a different galaxy.” Bonus: read the comments.
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Be a Modern Knight: Protecting Your Lady in the 21st Century. I really wanted to meet the wonderful guy who wrote this, but found he had help from his lucky wife.
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The Invisible Man, a short short story from Lee Sandlin. If you’re going to pick up a cat at the airport, you need to buy a car first.
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7 “Eccentric” Geniuses Who Were Clearly Just Insane. Sort of like the guys you see in the online personals, only with historical accomplishments.
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Was it a mistake or a prank? Either way, a spaghetti-eating cat does not belong in a show about binge drinking.
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How to Make Your Own Daguerreotype. The first practical form of photography was made public 169 years ago today, and is still just as difficult. But there are shortcuts!
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Russian Books for Naughty Children. Learning good behavior comes at the price of lifelong nightmares.
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What a silly thing to say about Tycho Brahe in that geniuses article – dwarfs (dwarves?) were extremely popular for entertainment among the rich in those days. Though I don’t know why he had his dwarf sit silently under the dinner table while dressed as a clown… And no mention of Tycho’s golden nose and his wild drunken parties! He’s such an interesting figure. Instead all this about a dwarf. Lord Byron sounds like a good movie could be made of him though.
posted by Sawicki on 8-19-2008 at 3:56 pm
Yeah I want to meet the guy who wrote that “modern knight” article too…and punch him in head
no porn?!?! NO PORN?!?! That my friend is a world I do not want to live in.
and this is coming from a chick!
posted by Laura on 8-19-2008 at 4:05 pm
a spaghetti-eating cat?! why wasn’t i watching the MandJ Show that day?!
and in the spirit of the commenters- it is said that if the sun suddenly stopped shining, it’d be eight minutes until we knew. Michael Phelps would know eight minutes before it happened.
posted by sb22 on 8-19-2008 at 4:33 pm