The Oregonian, our local daily, has a column called The Edge that is about offbeat stuff. I steal from it, because it steals from everybody else:+ + + + + + + +
"A hothpital retheptionitht in Waterford, NY, ith threatening to thue a hothpital that fired her becauth of her tongue thtud and other body pierthingth, thaying the pierthingth are part of her religion ath a member of the Thurth of Body Modificathion, whith claimth to have thapterth in Kentucky and Virginia. Further reportth, ath developmentth warrant."
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And here are some of the results of the Ignoble Awards, for achievements that "cannot and should not be reproduced":
Medicine: A US and Israeli team's discovery that hiccups could be cured with a finger up the rectum.
Ornithology: Two researchers from UC-Davis and UCLA for explaining why woodpeckers do not get headaches.
Acoustics: Three researchers from Chicago's Northwestern University for an experiment aimed at dfiscovering why the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard is so irritating.
Literature: Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University for his report, "Consquences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems With Using Long Words Needlessly."
And my favorite (you had to see this coming):
Nutrition: Two researchers from Kuwait for showing that dung beetles are finicky eaters.
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My favorite word today is youth. N., okay junior, this is a bird and this is a bee. Def.: A nice stage of life that is wasted on young people.
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