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Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category

July 4th, 2008

The Secret’s Out: Gym Goers Listen to ‘Cheesy’ Pop Music.

So you’re at the gym and everyone around you has earplugs in. Ever wonder what they are listening to? Well, here’s your chance.
According to a survey conducted by Fitness First, the UK’s largest gym operator, it’s pretty much ‘cheesy pop music’ - music that you’d never admit to listening to normally.
Those surveyed favored the following…

Eye of the […]

By Liz -- 12 comments

June 19th, 2008

Brain Test: What Sex is Your Brain?

Sure hope you’ve got a little time on your hands this coming weekend because I found some fun brain tests that you don’t want to miss.
As part of the BBC Human Mind TV Series aired in 2003, the BBC website has a series of interesting and informative brain tests that you can do.
Get a brain sex […]

By Liz -- 2 comments

May 30th, 2008

Healthbolt Historic: Vintage Drug Ads.

If you think drugs are scary now, take a look at what was on offer in the 1800’s and 1900’s…

Source: Dr. Bonkers presents
The Nearly Genuine and Truly Marvelous
Psychoneuropharmacological Mental Medicine Show
Tags: curative medicine, drug advertisements, Drugs, Healthbolt, history of medicine, Medicine, medicine makers, medicine shows, vintage drugsShare This

By Liz -- 0 comments

May 29th, 2008

The Importance of Play.

“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do“(The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain)

Play is essential to a child’s social, emotional, and academic life.
So why are schools shunning recesses and physical education for structured academics and testing?
And why does it […]

By Liz -- 4 comments

May 5th, 2008

The Sunday Monday Sidebar.

A day late, but I think it’s worth the wait. 
Free Viagra
Now here’s a politician that really cares about his constituents. Gonzalo Navarette Munoz, mayor of a municipality near the Chilean capital Santiago, wants to improve the quality of life for the older people in the working class suburb of Lo Prado by handing out potency […]

By Liz -- 0 comments

April 25th, 2008

Coke Zero Ad: The Brain speaks.

Imagination is a wonderful thing.

(Discovered at Street Anatomy)
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By Liz -- 0 comments

April 23rd, 2008

Aspirin and Bandaids: Healthy, Green, and Funny Too.

            
They say ‘laughter is the best medicine’ so next time you need to fill up on bandaids and aspirin, skip the traditional products and head over to Help Remedies. They’ve put out some products that will not only cover the cut and fix the headache but will also amuse you….
Got a Headache….Have an Aspirin.

Cut […]

By Liz -- 3 comments

April 1st, 2008

It’s April Fool’s Day: Did You Get Anyone?!?

With April Fool’s Day coming to a close, I’m dying to know if you “got” anyone today. Did you deliver the ultimate prank (Hey honey, I guess that vasectomy didn’t work so well after all), or did you just lightly yank someone’s chain (Damn! There’s no coffee left. Oh, I guess there is. April Fools!)? […]

By Liberty -- 3 comments

March 19th, 2008

Dermatographia as Body Art.

Meet Ariana Page Russell.
Ariana suffers from dermatographia, a skin disorder that affects up to 5% of the population. But instead of hiding her skin disorder, which is what most people do, she has found a most unique way of dealing with it. She ‘paints’ with her dermatographia.

Dermatographia (’writing on the skin’) causes any scratched or […]

By Liz -- 13 comments

March 18th, 2008

Can you do this with your body?

Neatorama has put together an interesting list of Things That Are (Almost) Impossible To Do With Your Body. Seems that 99.9999% of us cannot do any of the following…

Raise One Eyebrow
Lick Your Elbow
Gleeking
Twitch Your Nose
Wiggle Your Ear
Touch Your Chin or Nose with Your Tongue
Sneeze with Your Eyes Open
Tickle Yourself
Draw The Number Six While Making Clockwise […]

By Liz -- 8 comments