The Fun Side of Man

Fun Side is now weezdumb

2009-03-21T00:28:00.000-07:00

This blog's name and address have been changed to:weezdumbNew posts are being made there now, but no longer here.. look for a new template and more stupidity and all sorts of dumb stuff..

Porn Interrupts Arizona Super Bowl Broadcast

2009-02-02T03:37:00.000-08:00

from Arizona Daily StarA short clip of a pornographic movie cut into a Comcast broadcast of the Super Bowl in homes in and around Tucson.Officials at Comcast confirmed that its signal was interrupted during the Super Bowl, but the company is still working to figure out how porn broke into its cable feed.Engineers at Comcast will be working throughout the night to determine what happened, said

The Super Bowl in Six Minutes

2009-01-31T20:33:00.000-08:00

Before the 2009 Super Bowl, the pre-game show is five hours. The game telecast is four and a half hours, normally they allot three hours.Someone at ESPN timed the actual plays of a game, while players were in motion, running around: the game’s actual EXCERCISED length with people in action = five minutes, forty seconds!!Yep – our priorities are in order, 9.5 hrs of broadcast time in a row for six

Gaseous Clouds in Space

2009-01-31T15:16:00.001-08:00

This is the most awe-inspiring photo of space I've seen, the Orion Nebula photographed from the Hubbell space telescope. The different colors are elements, blue is zinc, so there's a cloud of zinc so large that it encompasses fifty or more stars!This image is my desktop wallpaper off and on, I rotate this with one of the moon above some mission bells out west, perhaps San Xavier du Bac near

Lancelot Encore, the Cloned Dog

2009-01-28T14:58:00.000-08:00

[Typical waste of money by americans with too much? or a worthy use of your life savings? - lol.. the Jman]A Florida couple had their dog (golden retreiver) Lancelot's DNA frozen, then cloned after he died. They now have the 10 wk old clone, named Lancelot Encore -- cost: $150,000! Guy Adami on Fast Money said, "they could've bought 200 dogs for 750 each, kept the one that looked like Lancelot

Heed All Warning Signs

2008-02-28T18:35:00.000-08:00

Always avoid these signs....

The Theory of Women

2008-02-22T20:09:00.000-08:00

Has the Earth's Axis Tilt Changed?

2008-02-03T20:35:00.000-08:00

You can read all these links to NASA and other organizations and judge for yourself. Could this is what's really happening to the weather? Not a sudden looming Apocalypse but a major change in the earth's tilt angle, and in the evolution of life on earth:Earth's Axis TiltHow much of this related to the increased attention given the Mayan calendar ending time in 2012, one never knows. There's

Wacky U.S. Town Names

2008-01-15T21:33:00.000-08:00

Source: USPS Zipcode database, so these have zip codes, imagine those that don'tAlabama: Stretch Ankle, Arab, Burnt Corn, and Seed TickArkansas-Texas: Texarkana (state line runs down main street)Arizona: Why (see Mississippi)California: Zzyzx Springs (there’s also Yreka in the Trinity Alps, with a bakery, and the “Yreka Bakery” is a palindrome, the same backwards as forwards)Delaware: Camden

The Real JFK Story from the CIA Itself

2008-01-11T02:23:00.000-08:00

Source: Plausible Denial by Mark LaneWe all remember the day in 1963 and the scamful Warren Commission later with bogus evidence and suspicous witnesses (two of whom could barely see 10 feet but made ID's of Oswald in a distant window), but no one even noticed when the CIA admitted contracting the Mafia for the hit during an 80’s trial, “Howard Hunt vs. Liberty Magazine”. Liberty-owned Spy

The First Female Candidate for President

2008-01-10T21:47:00.000-08:00

No, it's not Hillary, she's over a century too late.The first female candidate for president was Victoria Woodhull (Mrs. John Biddulph Martin), who ran in 1872. This free love, women's rights, and labor union advocate, born in a shack in Homer, Ohio, was both the first American woman to run for President and the first woman to run a stock brokerage. Before that she was a famous “spiritualist” and

Ten or 12 Months, It's Still a Year to Me

2008-01-09T19:34:00.000-08:00

The Roman calendar was based on the moon, so every year it came up ten days short and also had ten months, beginning on March 1. An Egyptian astronomer that Caesar met through Cleopatra showed him a calendar based on the sun, which gave us the twelve month year. I always wondered why October (oct meaning eight) was the 10th month, November (novem meaning nine) the 11th, and December (dec meaning

The Much Too Modern Olympics

2008-01-08T19:03:00.000-08:00

The Olympics were halted in 394 a.d. by the Christian emperor Theodosius, who said they were a “pagan celebration” (Zeus favored the hammer throw). They were revived in 1892 by a Frenchman who wanted the French to become more fit in case they had another war with Germany – gee, what were the odds of that? Judging from history, I don’t think being able to win a fencing medal helped much in either

Do NOT Touch That Ball

2008-01-07T18:40:00.000-08:00

Soccer evidently got started when the victors of the Battle of Hastings (1066) lopped off the head of the deposed army leader and kicked it around the battlefield. It’s clear to see where the no hands rule came from, “yar cap’in – it’s a bloody mess!”. By 1314, soccer, along with golf, was so popular that King Edward II had to ban both because the warrior nation needed more skillful archers

He Wished He Was In Dixie

2008-01-06T18:35:00.000-08:00

The famous battle song of the confederacy, "Dixie", was written in a New York city hotel room in 1859 by Daniel Decatur Emmett, from Ohio! When it was played for Jefferson Davis’ inauguration, the song quickly caught on throughout the south, much to the consternation of “damned Yankee” Emmett, who said “if I’d known what they were gonna do to my song, I’d have never written it!” Then we’d have

Plymouth Rock was a Beer Stop

2008-01-05T18:26:00.000-08:00

The pilgrims sailing to America on the Mayflower were blown off course, and rather than turn and head south for Virginia as originally intended, they put ashore in Massachusetts because they were running low on beer. Water was considered suspect, due to contamination and disease, and one of the first things the pilgrims built up after landing was a brew house.One pilgrim, named Samuel Adams, used

Washington's Less-Known Quote

2008-01-05T18:22:00.000-08:00

When George Washington was boarding the rowboat to cross the Delaware, he had to nudge 300-lb Colonel Henry Knox aside to make room, with these immortal words, “Shift that fat ass, Harry, but slowly or you’ll swamp the damn boat!” To me, these are much more inspiring fighting words than “full speed ahead” or “I regret that I have but one life to give.”By the way, Washington was not the first

Venice Was a Watery Fortress

2008-01-04T18:47:00.000-08:00

Venice grew up from mainlanders escaping Attila’s Huns. It started as a swampy refuge, then grew over time until it covered 118 islands and had as many canals as most cities have streets. Apparently the Huns were such landlubbers that they had never heard of boats, nor could they swim! Attila himself died from a chronic nosebleed on his wedding night. His battlefield enemies had obviously been

Acceptable Food Contamination

2008-01-03T17:04:00.000-08:00

U.S.D.A. (or is it FDA when its approaching medicine?)- Acceptable “defect levels” of foods – “You are what you eat”. You just can't make this up!Asparagus – 10% infested with beetle eggs; 40 thrips or 5 insects in 100-gram samplesChocolate – up to 60 insect fragments in 100-gram sampleCoffee beans – up to 10% insect infested, damaged, or moldedFish – 5% of fillets or fish with “definite

Man-Made Laws of the Universe

2008-01-02T15:36:00.000-08:00

These are all un-proven un-scientific laws that seem to apply to modern civilized man. This will never be complete as we create more every day. We all know "If things can go wrong, they will." (Murphy's Law). Here are some you probably didn't know.Parkinson’s Law – Tasks will take at least the amount of time allotted.The 80/20 Rule – Twenty percent

Memorable Deaths

2008-01-01T15:30:00.000-08:00

We'll never get off this world alive - Jim MorrisonAgathocles (Syrian tyrant, 300 b.c.) – choked on a toothpick (they had toothpicks back then? I didn’t know they even had teeth as adults!).Alexander the Great (Macedonian emperor) – caught a fever during two days of drinking and carousing, died at 33. (Never really recovered from an arrow wound