Monday, September 20, 2004

XXXI - XLVI

XXXI. Foxes have X-Ray vision.

XXXII. The biggest selling products in the US state of South Dakota last year were clockwork Highway Patrolmen and signed photographs of Bill Clinton dissecting a horse.

XXXIII. Larry Grayson was the first man on the moon.

XXXIV. The entire Microsoft corporation is secretly controlled by a 97-year old woman on a giant hamster wheel who receives messages from God.

XXXV. Bob Dylan rides a unicycle into work.

XXXVI. The production of one single compact disc requires more potatoes than is needed to feed the entire population of South Korea for one year.

XXXVII. Shortly before he died, Russian dictator Josef Stalin planned to turn the Caspian Sea to gravy.

XXXVIII. The Velvet Underground released an album entitled Songs For Swingin' Convicts under the pseudonym The Electric Twats.

XXXIX. Christopher Columbus' first act upon reaching the shores of the New World was to open a racially segregated Crazy Golf course.

XL. A mooted sequel to the film Honey, I Shrunk The Kids entitled Honey, I Boiled The Dog was vetoed by studio executives.

XLI. For the last ten years, the result of the Eurovision Song Contest has been decided by a frantic and tearful game of Russian Roulette.

XLII. Author H.G. Wells had a morbid fear of basketballs.

XLIII. Squirrels can speak Japanese.

XLIV. A manuscript by founding father of psychiatry Sigmund Freud, discoursing upon the sexual politics of interpersonal behaviour and entitled Hey, Nice Hooters! languishes unreleased in a Viennese vault.

XLV. Author Ernest Hemingway used to relax by engaging in bouts of shadow-boxing, which he seldom lost.

XLVI. William Shatner can walk unaided upon the ceiling.