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yeah, I know. I’m not counting this as a post. I just thought it was funny. Funny ’cause it’s true.
problem: I crave food at night. Sweets AND salty. This often leads to the consuming of a whole bag of chips or the baking of a sheet of brownies. This is not good.
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Thank you for coming out with a minty, chewable birth control pill. However, you do realize that your commercial advocating the EASE and CONVENIENCE of being able to take your pill at the same time of the day, no matter what you’re doing (riding the subway! climbing a ladder at work! exercising with your boyfriend!) is COMPLETELY NEGATED by the tiny phrase “take with a full glass of water” at the bottom of the screen.
do you know see how this defeats the whole point?
back to the lab bench, and try again. mkay?
many years ago in the lab, there was a day of such awesome awesomeness that it defied all awesomeness that had come before it.
It was nearing the end of the day, and I was sitting at my bench and leafing through the huge pile of journals that had collected next to me (I was the last person in the lab journal rotation). I had a knack, which I’m sure you will all be SHOCKED to learn about, in finding the weirdest, most obscure, and sexually charged articles ever in the journals. You laugh, but yes, they exist. The best places to look for these kind of articles were in the journals of Science and Nature.
Yes, the sciencey geeks are nodding your heads. YOU know.
On this particular day, I found an article about duck phalluses. More specifically, AMAZINGLY LONG duck phalluses. We’re talking in terms of lenth in FEET, not inches, OK? VERY LONG DUCK PHALLUSES! CORKSCREW SHAPED, FOOTLONG DUCK PHALLUSES!
First…WHY do they need to be so long, and second…
WHO DOES THIS RESEARCH??? How amazingly awesome it would be to ask someone what they do for a living and they say “well…uhhh…I’m a graduate student…” “oh, what do you study?”
“dukmphhh phhmmsss”
“what?”
“duck phalluses”
“….WHAT?”
“I MEASURE DUCK PHALLUSES!”
“ohhhh…wow. uhhh…I’m going to go refresh my drink.”
Anyway, today I found the AMAZING UPDATE to the duck phallus story, compliments of BoingBoing. everything you wanted to know about male and female duck anatomy, but were afraid to ask.
this one’s for you, Brenda.
