Six Innovative Ways Humans Have Kept Cool Throughout History.
If Comfy, Warm, and My Size, Why No Sit: A Meta-analysis of Research into the Warm Flat Rectangle by Dr Fluffy Jones. (via Metafilter)
The Irish Giant's Last Wish. Charles Byrne was seven and a half feet tall, and did not want his body to be dissected and displayed. (via Strange Company)
If you've never seen a three-story houseboat before, check out this luxury listing. (via Digg)
The proposal was so cute I grinned and almost cried.
Scared Silly: How The Ghost and Mr. Chicken Turned Don Knotts into a Movie Star.
The extinct Olympic sport that was the 'dullest' of all time. (via Damn Interesting)
The 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 has a 5.5-liter V8 engine that serves up 1,064 horsepower. It has a thoroughly modern, if intimidating, look, and the classic split rear windows are back.
How come Americans pronounce herb 'erb but not hospital 'ospital ?
ReplyDeleteWhen, and why, did Americans change the spelling of litre to liter, which for us 'normal' people, makes the new Corvette seem like it has a lighter engine ?
I suppose I should mention that it is a sign of advancement that Americans are using litres for engine size rather than cubic inches.
I was born not far from Cardiff, Wales, where the tidal range is around 10.5 metres, imagine living on a houseboat on the water there !
She was SO happy. I hope they stay that way forever.
About half of Americans pronounce the "h" in both those words. Why have letters if you aren't going to use them? Where I come from, the aromatic plants are called yarbs.
ReplyDeleteWe spell liter that way because it's not pronounced lee-tre.
I was the student manager of our HS Gymnastic team in ’60-’62. We won the state and went to West Point to play their freshman team. The gymnastics I witnessed win those competitions wouldn’t even qualify as a warm up routine for today’s athletes. Now they routinely do the impossible.
ReplyDeleteThere’s a special place in Heaven for Saints Willis Carrier, Frederick McKinley Jones, H.H. Schultz and J.Q. Sherman.
I can not see the justification of that $3.6 million 3 story houseboat. Keeping water out of your house from above is full time, now double it with below. Humid = mold and mildew. Dirty rotten Seagulls will ruin outdoor meals.
“Breathtaking Views”, “Unparalleled Vistas”... of what, the docks and office buildings?
Go out for a sail? Sure if there’s absolutely no wind, and you make provisions for disconnecting the sewer, electric, water plus gas if you have that.
On the upside, you don’t have to mow the lawn.
That ZR1 C8 Corvette is wild, 8000 rpm, 1064 hp and 828 ft lbs from 336 cu-in is nuts. I bought a new C3 with 350 hp from 350 cu in that was the bees knees at the time. LoL
xoxoxoBruce