Snails

Last night, I braved the traffic and drove up to Roswell, Georgia in the rain to visit Kipperkip. We ate pizza and watched home improvement shows on HGTV.

A JOKE

Dave and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital.

One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Dave suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom, pulled Dave out and brought him to his room.

When the hospital director became aware of Edna's heroic act, she immediately ordered that Edna be discharged from the hospital because she now considered Edna to be mentally stable.

She went to Edna and said, "I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that you're being discharged because you responded so rationally to a crisis. By jumping in the pool to save the life of another patient, you displayed sound mindedness. The bad news is that Dave, the patient you saved,hung himself in his bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead."

Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself. I put him there to dry".

"How soon can I go home?"

USELESS INFORMATION

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

CLOSING

I was hoping to drive down to Pine Mountain today for a reconnaissance hike along the Pine Mountain Trail, but the threat of continued rain prevented me from going. Tomorrow's supposed to be even worse, and besides, I have a BOD meeting at the Zen Center. I'm leading a hike down to Pine Mountain on December 11, so I need to do a quick recon sometime over the Thanksgiving weekend, as I'll be in Grand Cayman the weekend after Thanksgiving.