Archives for October 2022

Celeste Dixon from South Australia can do 8.   She was just one of the nearly 40,000 Guinness World Records 2023 applicants who believe their particular passion, talent, or trait (AKA Freak of Nature) should be considered for the new edition.  Other applicants include a Shetland pony that can walk on its hind legs, the youngest person ever to discover a comet and an insane narcissist who thinks he can be elected president from a cell in Leavenworth.

I will be among the applicants for the 2024 edition.  I was not able to beat 8 backward somersaults, or a single forward one, so I am applying as the person who has the fewest readers and the most insipid posts on any website.   Like my old pal P.T. Barnum remarked, “Say whatever you like about me, just spell my name right.”  

Stress sucks…and smells and dogs can detect it. If you believe your canine companion can tell when you’re upset without any external indication of your emotions, you now have science to back up the claim.   A new study suggests that dogs can pick up on human stress by using the strongest tool they have: their sense of smell.

It’s probably a good thing there are no dogs at Mar-a-Lago.  The poor dog would be going nuts from the stench!

Why this amazing invention is marketed to senior citizens I am not sure.  It seems the world was clamoring for a TP replacement ever since the Covid pandemic cleared store shelves of toilet paper and the competition for a roll became fierce!

The Blaux Bidet is a hand-held wand resembling a personal massager that shoots a stream of water where directed.  Hook one up in each bathroom and, as the ad says: “It’s incredibly gentle butt effective” (I added the extra t for emphasis). “If you suffer from hemorrhoids the Blaux Bidet will be your new best friend!”

I wonder what took so long.  Damn doctors and scientists wasting all that time on climate change and cures for fatal diseases.  At last a product that really eases suffering.  I hope they can be made available to charities and food banks so we can get them in the hands of those in need.