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News Briefs 18-05-2007

Don’t eat the yellow snow…

  • Are military’s laser-created plasmas to blame for UFO reports? Greg Bishop comments at UFO Mystic.
  • Tony Wright is 4 days into his attempt to break the world record for sleep deprivation, employing some interesting theories on primate diets and mystical consciousness . Only 7 days to go…ugh.
  • French architect Jean Houdin’s new pyramid ramp theory has made the cover of the May issue of Archaeology magazine.
  • Snake cults dominated early Arabia.
  • Ancient Mayan tomb found with upright skeleton.
  • Dan Brown donates a cool million to a local (to him) community center project.
  • Monet didn’t evolve into an abstract painter. He just got cataracts.
  • The Annals of Improbable Research (founder of the Ig Nobel awards) is set to go online.
  • Baby stars hatching in Orion’s head. I had that same feeling after knocking off a bottle of Dolcetto.
  • Bigelow Aerospace launch date delayed till late-June.
  • SETI’s Seth Shostak gets excited about a ‘planet of promise’.
  • Greenpeace building Noah’s Ark on top of Mount Ararat. Overheard comments include “how the heck do we fit two elephants in here?”.
  • Lightning strike just misses two children running in the rain (video).
  • Reporter has her ‘sixth sense‘ removed, with operation to take out her ‘transhuman augmentation’ (magnet under her skin).
  • Forget that transhuman crap. I want my muscle suit!
  • Chinese grandmother becoming a unicorn, with 4 inch horn growing out of her forehead. Niiiice…

Quote of the Day:

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Frank Zappa

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  1. What’s this ‘don’t eat the yellow snow’ stuff?
    Someone else said that too.

    I can’t believe that poor Granny with the horn growing out of her forehead.
    What a terrible thing to happen, and how on earth did it happen?
    I know of people being born with tails and being all hairy and that is understandable but horns?

    shadows

      1. Its a SONG!
        Thanks A2.I couldn’t get it to load so I saved it.That’s Optus on a Friday night.I get the same every Friday night.They are too cheap to put in any more lines.

        shadows.

  2. The New Potentially Earth Like Planet Is Interesting!
    Greg

    It has promise. And, it gives hope that we can find more planets like it!

    What do you think?

    cnnek

    {You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can’t Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}

  3. Ooooh dear!
    If Houdin’s theory of inside-out pyramid building is proved to be correct (sounds very feasible to me) the Big Z is not going to be happy!

    As he’s already stated that the theory is dumb, not to mention wrong, he might end up having to eat that hat of his.

    Regards, Kathrinn

  4. Granicorn
    Perhaps it’s a Mushishi? One episode of the Japanese anime Mushishi has a boy who has horns growing from his forehead after being infected by Mushishi. It’s episode 3, click the link to watch it. It’s a very cerebral and philosophical anime, not your usual giant robots and schoolgirls at all.

  5. More Zappa Wisdom
    LOL You’re a stubborn man Greg. 😉

    [quote]
    I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
    [/quote]

    As with all who reject the idea of a higher power, Zappa set himself up as the omnipotent being of his own private universe. Within that context, I can see how this quote makes sense.

    1. Rejecting the Higher Power =
      Anon: “As with all who reject the idea of a higher power, Zappa set himself up as the omnipotent being of his own private universe.”

      Using the same logic: As with all those who reject the evidential truths of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Anonymous stuck a straw in each nostril every full moon and proclaimed that he was the true walrus as referred to in Revelations 23.

      All young earth scientists support these claims.

      Coo coo ca choo, my friend … coo coo ca choo.

  6. Re : ‘Granny Grows Horn’

    In the late nineteenth century doctors discovered a Mexican porter named Paul Rodrigues who had a Horn more than 4 inches long protruding from the upper part of his forehead. The Horn was divided into three principal shafts and had a circumference of about 14 inches. Rodrigues wore a special pointed cap to hide it. This case was by no means unique Sir W. J. Erasmus Wilson, a nineteenth-century English dermatologist, recorded ninety cases of human Horns: Forty four females and forty six males. Of these ninety cases, the majority of the Horns were situated on the head. A few, however, grew from the face (several on the nose), some from the thighs, back, and foot, and one from the penis.

    Source

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