What I Learned This Week - 6/13/14

1.  My wife believes the she and I both have blonde eyes.
2. Most motivational fitness quotes are a lot funnier when applied to drinking (IE: You'll never know your limits until you push yourself to them)
3. Things my wife says that make me beam, "Okay, your wheels ARE fast"
4. The CIA is finally on Twitter. I love their first tweet, "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet."...no, I'm not going to follow them.
5. The record for oldest man or woman to ever finish an Ironman triathlon is held by an 82-year old Roman Catholic nun. Yes way. Sister Madonna Buder is still racing and she is awesome.
6. Famed reclusive cartoonist, Bill Watterson of "Calvin and Hobbes" fame made a secret cameo illustrating appearance in the comic strip, "Pearls Before Swine" last week. As a back-story, the illustrator of Pearls, Stephan Pastis - who often makes fun of his lack of artist talent -  let his second grade neighbor Libby (Bill spelled backwards), take a shot at writing his strip. Cue Bill Watterson. I would have never known unless Stephan had not blogged about it.
7. I like asking people,  "what do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?"
8. Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame plays the voice of the character, “the Joker” on “Batman: the animated series”.
9. Not all Chihuahuas like Taco Bell.
10. By cutting an empty Pringles can a certain way, one can make an single serving solar hot dog oven.
11. My boss doesn’t understand my humor….which makes my jokes all the more funny.
12. I can still be talked into physical challenges….but now only by coaches and people older than me.
13. The discovery of a crude drawing a small spider on the top of a toilet paper roll will cause grown men to scream loud enough to be heard in conference rooms down the hall.
14. Yet another study about the “Golden Rule” or the “Law of Urination” confirms previous studies that scientists have found that all mammals weighing more than 2.2 pounds (a kilogram) empty their full bladders in about 20 seconds. Whale, elephant, dog….all in twenty seconds – give or take. Yes, I ran my own “personal” test to confirm it….22 seconds.
15. Statisticians have too much time on their hands, but they make fun use of it - The World Cup Bracket can be used for scoring of many other things….like who consumes the most animal fat. (http://on.wsj.com/1xIGrx6)