Friday, February 04, 2005
Useless Information
-16-17 year-old driver doubles his chances of having an accident by taking two teen passengers in the car, insurance stats show. He quadruples them by having three or more teen passengers.
This is likely due to the radio being turned up to airline-jet decibels, Chinese fire drills, and "Dukes of hazzard" re-enactments.
-The word "blog" is now in the Oxford English Dictionary-but a new survey has found that 62 percent of Americans have never heard the word, and don't know what a blog is.
I bet at least 62% of people have never heard the word "pisiform" and don't know what it means. That doesn't make it unworthy of being in a dictionary though.
The number of fatal accidents involving motorcyclists above the age of 40 has tripled over the last decade, to about 1,700 a year. Safety officials blame the increase on baby boomers who are coping with midlife crises by buying bikes with big, powerful engines.
Well, killing yourself with a machine you have no business being on is one way to deal with a midlife crises. Whatever happened to buying a corvette and growing a pony-tail?
Since 1923, 44 women have won seats in the House or Senate following the death of a husband in office. "Very few spouses ever lose" said Debbie Walsh of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. "There's a huge advantage to being the widow."
Do you think Bill Clinton might be a little nervous about now?
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This is likely due to the radio being turned up to airline-jet decibels, Chinese fire drills, and "Dukes of hazzard" re-enactments.
-The word "blog" is now in the Oxford English Dictionary-but a new survey has found that 62 percent of Americans have never heard the word, and don't know what a blog is.
I bet at least 62% of people have never heard the word "pisiform" and don't know what it means. That doesn't make it unworthy of being in a dictionary though.
The number of fatal accidents involving motorcyclists above the age of 40 has tripled over the last decade, to about 1,700 a year. Safety officials blame the increase on baby boomers who are coping with midlife crises by buying bikes with big, powerful engines.
Well, killing yourself with a machine you have no business being on is one way to deal with a midlife crises. Whatever happened to buying a corvette and growing a pony-tail?
Since 1923, 44 women have won seats in the House or Senate following the death of a husband in office. "Very few spouses ever lose" said Debbie Walsh of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. "There's a huge advantage to being the widow."
Do you think Bill Clinton might be a little nervous about now?
# posted by Joe Florida @ 5:16 AM 
