So, And Thus...

Halloween Costumes

The Washington City Paper has compiled a list of The 10 Worst Sexy Halloween Costumes.

Among the horrible costumes are these gems:

The Spaghetti Penis Costume



and my favorite... The “Down for the Count” Costume. WTF?

Another site to check out is WTF Costumes: The Crazy & Sexy Halloween Costume Archive.  Here are a few from their site:

The Drunk You-Tube Guy

Office Space Costume

The Toy Soldier

The Price is Right Costume

Interesting Twister Costume

Hovering Boba-Fett

And for El Marveloso and his friends...Dora the Explorer

Palin on Oprah

That's right. Sarah Palin will be appearing on Oprah show in conjunction with her book release.

AP News | Culpeper Star-Exponent

Harpo Productions announced Tuesday that the former governor of Alaska and Republican vice presidential candidate will appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Monday, Nov. 16.

According to Harpo, the interview will be Palin's first about her new book, "Going Rogue: An American Life," and it will be the first time Palin and Winfrey will meet

I hope Oprah doesn't let Palin blab on about nothing. That would be a LONG show.

Since we know how much of a Obama supporter Oprah is, I wonder if Oprah is going to ask Palin about her ugly campaign speeches (lies) against Obama during the election.

Can't Even Carry A Tune With A Bucket?

Then you have bad brain.

KTVB.COM | News | Idaho News on Demand

If you're one of the unlucky people who is tone-deaf, it turns out your brain may have a wiring problem. That's what new research published Wednesday suggests.

People who are tone-deaf can't detect differences in musical pitch but usually have normal hearing and speech. Tone-deafness runs in families, and estimates of how many people have the problem range from 4 percent to 17 percent.

In the small study done in Boston, brain scans showed there was a difference in a particular brain circuit between those who were tone-deaf and those who weren't. Among the tone-deaf, researchers discovered there were fewer connections between two areas of the brain that perceive and produce sounds.

One of my friends is tone-deaf. It's so funny hearing her sing or whistle a song. She just stays on the same note while varying the rhythm. Sorta sounds like Morse code.

She enjoys music, so I'm wondering what exactly she hears. Can she hear that there are different notes or is she always hearing the same tone in every song? I've asked her before but it's not something that she can explain. Still, I wonder.

I don't confuse this with not being able to sing. Some people know how a song is supposed to go, but their voice isn't trained to reproduce the melody. They actually do better when they "convey" the melody with shorter syllables like "la, la, la" or "do, do, do". That's probably why songs that have these sing-along parts ("Loving You", "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da", "Gypsy Woman", ) do do do so well: Everyone can sing them!

Sarah Palin splitting from "the Todd"?

pic from AlaskaReport.com

Alaska Report is reporting that Sarah Palin and her husband Todd are divorcing.  They claim to have this information confirmed by multiple sources close to the couple including a former Palin staffer.  They also state that the stress of the split could be another reason she chose to resign as Governor of Alaska on July 26, 2009.

Astrologer Lynn Hayes also wrote about this possibility on her blog Astrological Musings (hosted by Deepak Chopra's Beliefnet.com) on July 4, 2009 and again August 1, 2009.  It seems that transiting Pluto is making a square to her Venus, which could create problems in her marriage.

Interesting?  You BETCHA!

Is that a Giant Phallic Banana in the middle of the street...

or is XL Curious George just happy to see me?

h/t Bauer-Griffin

Finally...What we've all been waiting for!

A chair that photocopies your butt!  As long as it comes with a reduction setting - I'll take one!

h/t The Daily What

Hairy Men Are Smarter?

Interesting...

The hirsute of higher intelligence | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET

Dr Aikarakudy Alias, a psychiatrist, who has been working on the relationship between body hair and intelligence for 22 years, told the eighth Congress of the Association of European Psychiatrists yesterday that hairy chests are more likely to be found amongst doctors and the highly educated than in the general population.

His research amongst medical students in America found that 45 per cent of male trainee doctors were "very hairy", compared with less than 10 per cent of men generally. In Kerala, southern India, research among medical and engineering students and manual labourers showed that both groups of students had more body hair on average than manual workers.

In addition, "When academic ranking amongst students was examined, the hairier men got better grades," said Dr Alias. The top six engineering graduates had more hair than the bottom eight.

And a study of 117 Mensa members (who have an IQ of at least 140) were also found to have a tendency to thick body hair. Some of the most intelligent men appeared to be those who had hair on their backs as well as on their chests.

But what about hairy women?

Time Warp - Jackhammer vs. Muscles

I just love science:

For those of you who don't know the show "Time Warp", it's on the Discovery channel.

Welcome to Discovery Channel's new series Time Warp,
in which MIT scientist and teacher Jeff Lieberman uses new technologies
to bring truly never-before-seen wonders into a form that your body can
actually process.

Using the latest in high-speed photography, the Time Warp
team takes some natural events (a cat licking its paw, a champagne
bottle being opened) — and some not-so-natural (a water balloon to the
face, a raw piece of chicken exploding) — and turns them into a thing
of both beauty and learning.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EL MARVELOSO!!!!!!

El Marveloso is celebrating a major milestone - his *0th Birthday!!

Since I cannot be with you to celebrate this year (sorry), instead I give you cake!  Enjoy!

Here is an Oso waiting to party and to have cake...

What is cuter than an oso?  Hello Kitty!!!

What does every party need???  DORA!!!

You should party until the COWS come home!!!

And after all this partying - how will you feel?

Happy Birthday again!  I love you!!!!!! - La Magnifica

Turn ON all Electronic Devices?

An interesting development. I have always thought there was something fishy about having to turn off all electronic devices when taking off in a plane. How in the world would my little iPod or a cell phone potentially be dangerous? And if it truly were dangerous, doncha think that the airline staff, not to mention the FAA, would be a little more stringent in enforcing the "shutoff"?

And as we know, cell phones were used in abundance on the planes that eventually crashed on 9/11. And it certainly wasn't the cell phones that made those planes crash.

Lo and behold, Delta announced that they are going to offer wi-fi service on its US flights. Unless I am missing something, it seems as if, when a buck can be made, cell phones and computers apparently are not a hazard in flight anymore!