Just what the title says.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
All pictures of current Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters currently displayed on government websites are actually of an actor who has been hired to appear as her. She has a pathological fear of photographs. This was not discovered until after she was confirmed.
Labels:
cabinet,
Mary E. Peters,
phobias,
photos,
politicians,
transportation
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Monday, November 05, 2007
Henry Kissinger is a remarkably flatulent individual. When he was U.S. Secretary of State he had to wear special underwear that contained both sound baffles and odor-absorbent panels so that he would not commit any diplomatic faux-pas during high-level meetings with officials from foreign governments. He was not entirely successful. Recently released documents from the former Soviet Archives reveal that during a 1975 meeting a Russian diplomat had to pretend that there were sewage problems in the building in an attempt to explain away the "hideous odors" associated with Kissinger. Kissinger had a cold at the time and didn't realize that his odor panels weren't working.
Labels:
diplomacy,
farting,
flatulence,
Henry Kissinger,
odor
Friday, November 02, 2007
Salt Lake City has a law on the books from 1873 that bans all shoes more than 13 inches in lengths from toe to heel. It is unclear why this law was passed, but there are two competing theories. One is that it was a measure designed to keep lawless cowboys out of the city by banning their long boots. The other theory is that male prostitutes were in the habit of wearing extra-long shoes as a clandestine advertisement of the length of their penises.
Labels:
cowboys,
prostitution,
Salt Lake City,
shoes,
strange laws
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