Mood: special
- A carbon-filament 4-watt light bulb has been burning in Livermore, California, fire-department since 1901, making it the world's oldest light bulb.(Proof that they don't make light bulbs like they used to.)
- In 2005, a Calgary man caught a boiled egg thrown from 275 feet away in his mouth.(He knew eggactly where to place his mouth.)
- A letter mailed to a small town in Germany in 1718 was finally delivered in 2004.(and you thought Canada Post was slow)
- In Switzerland, some mountain glaciers are wrapped in aluminum foil during the summer to keep them from melting.(Be nice to your ice and your ice will be nice to you.)
- A 26-year-old Croatian woman fell 40 feet from her apartment window in 2005 and survived after landing on her feet.(She's part human and part puddy cat.)
- The mouth of a hyena is so tough that the animal can chew a glass bottle without being cut.(It dumps the pieces out of its "glass hole".)
- The town of Florissant, Columbia elected Paco Bell as mayor. He's a donkey.(This was an improvement over the last mayor who was an ass.....)
- A woman in Kent, England, won a loudest scream contest by reaching 129 decibels, about the level of a pneumatic drill.(A week later, she also won the mother-in-law screaming contest.)
- In 2005, a 100-year-old motorist in Belgium was given a discount on his car insurance because he hadn't had an accident in 80 years.(He was the only person in the world with an 80 star rating and he deserves it.)
- A slice of singer, Justin Timberlake's half-eaten French toast fetched $4,000 on E-Bay. That included syrup and a fork.(A turd from this singer didn't sell for nearly as much.)
Check out www.centennialbulb.org (This beats the "EverReady Bunny" by a century.)