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Fun Facts About Sausage
~Sausage~- Sausage is believed to have been invented by the Sumerians around 3000 B.C.
- The early Catholic Church once made eating sausage a sin. **see footnote
- And Emperor Constantine actually banned the eating of it all together.
- A "Kielbasa" to the U.S. is really a "Cabana" in Australia
- Haggis sounds and probably IS disgusting
- Sausage is believed to have been invented by the Sumerians around 3000 B.C.
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The Book Meme that just won't die
Grab the closest book and open to page 123, find the fifth sentence and write the next three sentences ( Read more... ) -
Pocket Dictionary Pen
From time to time I get these hair brained ideas for inventions ( Read more... ) -
Silly Online Creativity generators
I was researching some websites on creative writing exercises, when I came across these:
Googlism
Type in a name and Google will deliver it back to you in really funny sentences & combinations.
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The Dialectizer
This was my favorite. Type in any website and select one of the dialects (Redneck, Jive Turkey, Elmer Fudd, etc) and it will translate the ( Read more... ) -
Deep Sea Exploration Lecture: Uni of Sydney
I attended a science lecture last night at the University of Sydney. I really love the old buildings on campus, I felt like I was at Hogwarts and any minute Hagrid was going to come strolling across the lawn towing some weird mythical beast. Yeah, that would have rocked!
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Senator McCain at Burning Man
I totally fell for this. I was all ready with snarky retorts.....thankfully I read the comments first. Damn yooou BRAF......Damn yooooou.
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In my defense, it is not actually April 1st here in Australia. :-P
Latest Burning Man Live Journal Community Post
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More people drive on the right hand side.
I found an interesting article on the history of "what side of the road to drive on." I was surprised to find out that the majority of the world drives on the right hand side of the road. For some reason, I had thought that America was the exception to the rest of the world who drive on the left side. This just goes to show that global education ( Read more... )
