Sunday, March 18, 2007

Did You Know?...

Did You Know?...

The harmonica is the most popular musical instrument in the world.

Each member of this year's Super Bowl-winning team will receive $73,000.

Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln.

Britney Spears, Anna Kournikova and Tonya Harding have all had computer viruses named after them.

Before becoming famous, Mick Jagger was a hospital porter.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

A bee is more likely to sting you on a windy day.

More than 600,000 Americans a year are injured on beds and chairs.

64% of women sleep on the left side of the bed.

Nicolas Cage ate a live cockroach in Vampire's Kiss.

Only 7% of the population are lefties.

Hot water is heavier than cold water.

The candies most likely to cause tooth decay are dark chocolate and fudge.

Handshakes transmit viruses 7 times more effectively than sneezes do.

It takes a sperm one hour to swim seven inches.

Jodie Foster was George Lucas' second option for Princess Leia in Star Wars.

Clint Eastwood and Marlon Brando both became fathers after age 60.

Each of us generates about five pounds of garbage per day.

Women are 10 times less likely than men to suffer from color blindness.

Disney World is bigger than the world's five smallest countries.

Larry King has been married seven times.

Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.

It takes 50,000 years for a plastic container to start decomposing.

Americans spend an estimated $8 to $10 billion U.S. on pornography each year.

A jumbo jet needs 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

In Scarface, "f*ck" is said 206 times, at an average of once every 29 seconds.

If it gets hungry enough, an octopus will eat its own arms.

Pirates thought wearing an earring would improve their eyesight.

35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

Beer foam will go down if you lick your finger and stick it in the beer.

The average person spend about two years of their life on the phone.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day.

A leech has 32 brains.

The words "assassination" and "bump" were invented by Shakespeare.

There are more than 100 chemicals in one cup of coffee.

An average of 100 people choke on ballpoint pens every year.

Edward Norton is fluent in Japanese.

Whenever Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing up.

When a person blushes, their stomach lining turns red too.

Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by 10 years

America's favorite Crayola crayon color is blue.

Hundreds of years ago, only wealthy people wore underwear.

25% of a human's bones are in its feet.

A person uses approximately 57 sheets of toilet paper every day.

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans annually.

Only 5% of Americans dream in color.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

Americans get toothpicks stuck in their throats more than any other object.

The largest kidney stone in history weighs 14 pounds.

If you spend one hour in a public swimming pool, you will come into contact with about 50 ounces of urine.

According to research, mosquitoes like people who have recently eaten bananas.

The world's oldest McDonald's restaurant still in operation is in Downey, California.

Every year in America, 13 people die from falling vending machines.

Single people are seven and a half times more likely to require psychiatric care.

When you're born you have 300 bones in your body, but when you die you only have 206.

You will inhale about 44 pounds of dust during your lifetime.

Until the 1960s, men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

More collect calls are made on Father's Day than on any other day of the year.

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

Only female mosquitoes bite. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians.

A typical can of soda contains 10 teaspoons of sugar.

All shrimp are born male, but grow into females as they mature.

Your taste buds are replaced every 10 days as old ones die and new ones take their place.

The skin of around 3,000 cows is required to produce a year's supply of leather NFL footballs.

According to the Ghost Research Society, there are 789 haunted houses in the United States.

my chibi rabbit

I tried making a little rabbit.
It's a little different than the pattern or the original. I still like it though, and I like it's minimalist look with only eyes. Yeah, I'm lazy but I don't want to mess it up any further.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

stencil attempt #2




I tried again on thicker fabric, a babies $2 t-shirt. I also used a brass stencil instead of freezer paper cos I was too lazy to iron the paper on. Either way it came out so well.

Monday, March 05, 2007

oh my....

Nope thats not camp at all....click the link and scroll down a little. Tell me what you think too...

not gay at all

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Myspace hilarity

So as a single woman in a western country I get tons of myspace spam from young men in Ghana and Nigeria. Men here get Russian women spamming them. Incidentally my brothers boss thinks his latest russian (he is such a sucker) is the real deal cos she waited until the third email to ask for money! Anyway...I didn't check my myspace for months then today I thought I better. This was by far the best message I got. You'll notice he can't say "I will like to know you more better" properly but in the middle of the email he spells spontaneous (I can't even spell that) and monotonous (or that) correctly and uses them perfectly. His sob story is just...well read for yourself.

Hello Prettie,
How are you doing? firstly, let me compliment on your beautiful face in the profile.... you are damn looking pretty good. I'm just browsing thru the pages and I come across your profile and wish to drop you a hit. If you dont mind I will like to know you more better,
My name is Edun Olalekan , single male from Nigeria. I'm looking for a lovely woman who undestand what real love is, who dont play games and is very honesty, I love alot of things as hobbies,I'm a pretty easy going person who has his moments. I'd like someone who is along the same line. Someone who can be spontaneous but also knows how to plan things out too. Someone who will make me laugh. I love to be outside in nature and thats where I am most comfortable. I love doing active things but nothing monotonous. I love to travel & computers programs, I just got out of a year relationship which is about to lead to our marriage but I later found out my fiancee was nothing but a game player, dont mind playing games at the excense of her lover, So we broke up last month, is not my idea to joining any dating site but since there is nothing I can do, now that im amidst of depresion and loneliness, Just checking on to see if theres someone true and real out there for me I dont ant players and soul deceivers, if you think you real and available why not get in touch and let gets things going.
I will like to chat with you my screen name in yahoo email is edunolalekan@yahoo.com and MSN is edunolalekan@hotmail.com, really waiting to have a great chat with you.
Take care sweety
Olalekan

American culture

This website has some seriously sobering numbers and pictures to highlight its point. Please check it out: here

The images that hit me the most were the paper bag forest, the plastic bags, the prison uniforms and of course the guns.

Retail hell

Please spare a thought for the girl (or guy) who serves you at the supermarket or a store next time. I've been in retail for 2 1/2 weeks now and I already want to die just from the job. You may be a nice, polite customer who doesn't take forever to pay, who doesn't bore us with stories of how your phone number has changed (really, do you think we care?) but there might have been any number of crazies that I had to serve before you who wanted to tell me about their old phone number being nearly the same as their new one and isn't that funny, dear? In one 5 hour shift I had to find 175 metres of the right type of cord, cut 1.5 metres for an older, arrogant man who told me he was getting old so he had to dress up (bit my tongue over that) and of course the phone number lady. I might have had to do several laborious returns for people who decided they wanted another colour of $3 thread. Keep the thread for next time and spare us all, PLEASE. The day before I had to measure and cut 1 metre of ribbon...in 20 different colours for one customer. Oh yeah, and my feet hurt so please don't expect me to walk all over the damn store for your lazy ass.

I work on the craft counter and I get people, often rather snooty women coming up and asking me things I don't know but that I am apparently expected to. I don't know about every craft ever invented ok? I get a little above minimum wage and I really don't think that requires me to care more than a little above minimum.

Thursday, March 01, 2007