Harley-Davidson has begun to offer a new service to its particularly devoted riders. For $20,000 the company will arrange to have a rider's complete skeleton plated in chrome after death, and imprint the Harley-Davidson logo on their skull. So far, 58 people have signed up for the service, but none of them have died yet. Jay Leno is reported to be one of the 58.

Actor Emilio Estevez has a set of mouth guards that cover his teeth and allow him to chew on extremely hard things without injury. He uses these guards to allow him to chew on rocks so that he can build up his jaw muscles, under the belief that a heavily-muscled jaw would make him look more "imposing".

Modern cattle ranches have begun to use branding irons that dispense depilatory gel that removes the hair on a cow and thus forms the brand. These irons don't require a fire to heat the iron and say time, energy and money. Modern rustlers have also adapted to the shifting technology. Now, many rustlers are former hair sylist trainees, recruit for their knowledge of depilatories and their aesthetics skills in changing one brand to another.

Since 1900, the incidence of fangs among herbivorous mammals has increased 700%. There have been well-documented cases of fangs in cows, goats, yaks, sheep, deer and camels. It has been suggested that environmental pressures have been selecting for herbivores who supplement their diet with small animals. One scientist interviewed on the matter said that the "most frightening thing he had ever seen" was a small island in the Caspian Sea that seems to be the base for a population of carnivorous, and in some cases, cannibalistic goats.

Despite an excellent growing climate, and very corrupt police, efforts by marijuana producers in Indonesia have been very unsuccessful. The problem is that orangutans, native to Indonesia's forests, are especially susceptible to pot addiction. The orangutans will rip up newly-planted marijuana shoots and carry them into the treetops. A full-grown orangutan can remove over 600 pounds in one trip. The drug growers won't kill the animals for two reasons, 1) it is considered bad luck in Indonesia, and 2) no one wants to piss off a stoned orangutan

Aardvarks are the only non-primate known to engage in oral sex.

Prior to the most recent tour of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards had a shunt inserted into his throat so that if he choked on his own vomit it would be very easy to start him on a ventilator. This followed his 1997 insertion of a shunt in his arm so that he could take intravenous drugs without having to worry about vein collapse.

Reclusive author Thomas Pynchon dislikes meeting new people because he has Tourette's Syndrome. He can't meet a new woman without screaming "Whore! Whore! Whore! Fuck the proboscis monkey!" This makes relationships very difficult. When Pynchon recorded his voice for The Simpsons TV show it took over 4 hours for the take due to all the involuntary profanity.

Among professional athletes, curlers have the lowest heart rates. The average resting heart rate of a curler is 45. One female curler was found to have a resting heart rate of 29.

Mixing Elmer's glue with the mucous of a common garden snail produces an adhesive that is five times stronger and more durable that crazy glue. The combination glue is almost never used however for three reasons. 1) No one has ever synthesized snail mucous, 2) it has proven impossible to farm and milk snails for their mucous and 3) no one wants to have to always carry around a snail just in case they want to glue something.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin refuses to open his eyes between 2:00 and 3:00 in the afternoon. He calls it his "recharging time". He has designated one person to take care of all the tasks that require him to see. That person has complete power of attorney but only during that one hour. The designated person also has to remain within 25 feet of Brin at all times during that hour and any conversation he has must be audible to Brin. For this service, the person receives an annual salary of $1,000,000.

Comedian Drew Carey never wears an outfit that takes more than 15 second to remove. He says "I like to be prepared at all times."

In India the national emergency relief agency is trained to deal with a number of emergencies that don't occur in the United States, such as rampaging monkey hordes. They have had to deal with 4 hordes in past 15 years.

A chihuahua can produce its own body weight in feces in just two hours.

A small percentage of human moles greater than 1 inch in diameter can be seen to move. Removal and dissection of the mole invariably indicates a rudimentary musculature. Any doctor who attempts to submit a paper on such a mole to a major medical journal not only has his/her article rejected, but also has their subscription canceled.

A PR firm has just opened offices in New York and Los Angeles. It specializes in getting people in the news in unusual ways. One popular way is to break up a phony mugging. Another is to fake a collapse, for a variety of reasons including (but not limited to) exhaustion, alcohol, sunstroke, ennui, and toxic shock syndrome. The company is called Improved Reality and only takes clients who are worth more than $30 million. Tom Cruise is reputed to have been their first customer.

Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens has four children whose names all begin with K. He is usually asked why he used the letter "K", which he explains stands for strikeout. Once though, he was asked why he had so many children. Clemens was startled by the question and blurted out "Well, I just like fucking."

Bill Simmons, AKA the Sports Guy on ESPN.com, is an enthusiastic softball player, participating in three separate leagues. But he refuses to play in any league which doesn't allow drinking on the field. In one of the leagues he has never made it to the end of a game due to excessive alcoholic consumption. He was voted that league's MVP.

Jeff Keane, the son of Bil Keane who is the creator of the comic strip Family Circus, is an avowed atheist and, despite the fact that he is his father's assistant on the strip, hates what he calls "the pablum escapades of a bunch of stupid dwarfish brats". He says that he would "quit in an instant" if he didn't need the money from the royalties to support his "bad habits".

Three members of the 29th United States Congress were followers of voodoo. Although they were known to exist at the time, no one knew who they were. The Speaker of the House always carried a bag with a chicken foot and severed cat tail in it to protect against curses from members he might have offended.

Hiccups can be cured instantaneously and definitively by a sharp punch directly in the stomach of the sufferer. It temporarily paralyzes the diaphragm and cures the hiccups. Unfortunately, it also renders the sufferer unconscious due to lack of oxygen, and occasionally dead from damage to internal organs.

16% of Americans believe that cows are evil. 37% of that group agree to the statement that the Devil looks like a cow.

Until she became the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice signed her name with a heart over the "i".

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch once directly his underlings to look into the possibility of hiring double leg amputees to deliver the evening news on the Fox Channel. He figured that they didn't need legs as a "talking head" and he could probably pay them less for the same job because they would "just be thankful to have a job." He was eventually talked out of the idea.

Vice President Dick Cheney can't smile for more than 5 seconds without suffering a massive headache. It has to do with a malformation of the muscles attached to his skull. Because of this he has to work very hard at not smiling. He has been known to punch stand-up comedians without warning or provocation.

Former U.S. Senator Zell Miller makes himself vomit once a day. He is not bulimic. He just likes to vomit.

Actress Lindsay Lohan has been offered $3,000,000 to endorse a line of mouthwash that comes packaged with its own set of disposable kneepads. It's called "One Night". So far she has refused.

Rumor has it that there is a Thursday night poker game amongst the Cardinals in the Vatican in which hundreds of thousands of dollars are regularly won or lost. There are even stories that the current Pope Benedict XVI won the papacy by calling in IOUs from the game.

Although they cannot digest them and get no nutrition from them, king cobras love the taste of strawberries. Unfortunately, after they eat them they are unable to expel them from their bodies through normal means. A researcher in Bangladesh discovered that the fermentation of the strawberries in the gut of the cobra produced an intensely powerful hallucinogen. That drug is now extremely popular in South East Asia, where it is known as Snake Bite and has reputed, although unproven, aphrodisiac effects. It is however the most expensive recreational drug on the planet, with one ounce costing $35,000.

Despite the stereotype of hard rock and the Devil fitting together, Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey always claimed that he preferred Pat Boone and early Wayne Newton, because their voices put him in a more "worshipful frame of mind".

Actor George Clooney is a well-known prankster on movie sets. But one time his pranks backfired on him. He baked a number of cookies using rabbit droppings instead of chocolate chips. He brought them to the set of Ocean's Eleven and called them "vegan chocolate chip cookies". Actress Julia Roberts was warned about the cookies. She pretended to eat one and get sick and then hired a doctor to convince Clooney that she was suffering from tularemia or "rabbit fever". Clooney was so upset that he donated over $50,000 to the hospital she was being treated in before she let him in on the joke.

Although he is reportedly a big fan of J.R.R. Tolkien, talk show personality Bill O'Reilly refused to see the movie version of The Two Towers because it depicted suicide bombers. He felt that even though the bombers were orcs, the mere fact that suicide bombing was in the movie would serve to embolden terrorists.

North Korea has the world's strictest import policy. All clothing made of fibers that were not produced in North Korea are banned. The practical upshot is that customs officials routinely take clothes from visitors and then sell them on the black market.

The United States Secret Service equips all of their vehicles with grappling hooks that can be fired from the front grill, the brake lights, and each hubcap.

73% of college fraternity members fall into what would technically be considered an alcoholic coma at some point during their time at college. It is estimated that over $20 million a year is spent on payouts in an attempt to keep this fact out of the mainstream news.

Elephants can't pick their noses, but occasionally they are observed picking other elephants' noses.

Comedienne Carol Burnett once got so stoned on psychedelic mushrooms that for three days she thought she was a howler monkey and threw her shit at anyone who tried to get close to her.

Las Vegas casinos are experimenting with blackjack tables that release a fine mist of alcohol from a large tank in the floor. The mist is intended to slowly get players drunk so that they play more recklessly. The dealer at the table is surrounded by a "curtain" of blown air that keeps the mist at bay.

Actor Guy Pearce's mother never believed that acting was a "proper profession". She demanded that Pearce have a fall-back career for when the "acting thing ran dry". To appease her he took a course in automotive repair. Oddly enough, he found out that he really liked it, and has opened a shop in Sydney, Pearce Putters, for times when he is not working on a movie.

Presidential Adviser Karl Rove is the long-standing president of the Farrah Fawcett Fan Club. He spends over 10 hours a week maintaining the club's website and he personally owns over 3,000 pieces of Fawcett-related memorabilia.

Despite his intelligence, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez has a lot of trouble with multi-line phones. He lost his first-ever job because he was unable to successfully transfer calls. He has hung up on President Bush on more than one occasion because he pressed the wrong button.

An estimated $150 million is spent on industrial espionage within the zipper industry every year.

In Victorian England it was illegal to sell lampreys to unmarried women because their consumption was thought to promote lesbianism.

The old college fad of swallowing live goldfish began in 1918 when it was rumored to help stave off the deadly effects of the Spanish Flu. Practioners were led to believe that consumption of live fish would help supercharge their immune systems. Not only did it not work, but it also caused a rash of diseases attributed to fish parasites.

Baseball player Mickey Mantle once bet a teammate that he could hit 5 out of 10 batting practice pitches while blindfolded, if the baseballs used had been soaked in whiskey for 24 hours. He actually hit 7 out of 10, including one for a homerun.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro is passionately attached to the children's game Chutes and Ladders (He doesn't like the English version, Snakes and Ladders because he hates snakes). He plays the game obsessively, with the same endurance that is evident in his multi-hour speeches. In his younger days he was known to play the game for over 24 hours in a row. He says that the game is the perfect metaphor for life with its unexpected setbacks and advances.

Actor Paul Newman owns over 700 billion bees in hives around the country.

The earliest depiction of Satan in a Christian church shows a being that is strikingly similiar to a lobster. Not having a clear idea of what the Lord of Hell might look like, the artist apparently employed something that he personally found scary. Over time, the image gradually morphed into the currently familiar image of a red, horned man. There are images of Satan with gigantic claws that date as late as the 15th century A.D., and one statue of him from a 13th century Byzantine fresco that shows him with a big, flappy lobster tail.

According to Social Security Records, there are at least 52 people in the United States whose first name is Architeuthis, the genus name for the giant squid. It is unclear what the gender distribution of the name is, although it is apparently used as both a male and a female name.

There are 13 species of mammals (not including bats) and 49 species of reptiles that draw their nourishment solely from blood.

Japan uses more anti-bacterial disinfectant per year than any other five countries in the world put together.

The average cockroach is more than twice as clean as the average U.S. dollar bill.

Former U.S. Senator Johnathan Edwards is very proud of his oratorical skills. He once bet fellow Senator Olympia Dukakis of Maine that he could give a speech on the floor of the Senate with his mouth full of pebbles, matching the legendary training of the Greek orator Demosthenes. He gave the speech successfully, but was never paid off by Snowe. She claims that he bobbled the word "schizophrenia". The C-Span coverage of the day of that speech has been lost due to a malfunctioning tape player. The wager was for a dinner for two at Wendy's.

In Singapore it is illegal to build a robot spider for purposes of espionage or as a weapon of war, but all other purposes are legal.

Sen. Joseph McCarthy's last words consisted of an impassioned denunciation of his hospital bedpan for being a Communist.

Foley artists for porn movies often add sounds of animals mating in the background music as a way to heighten the erotic content. The animal most often used is the pangolin. Apparently, according to foley artists, the sounds from two pangolins mating can be quite arousing.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani never wears clothes with zippers. He once said (in reference to this policy) "It's the only thing that the goddamn Amish have ever gotten right." He has never further elaborated on that statement.

Penguin clubbing is legal in New Zealand, provided it can be demonstrated that the penguins had a "fighting chance". Legally this means that the total mass of the penguins present must outweigh the hunter by a factor of 50. So, theoretically, if the penguins banded together they could take down the hunter. The only other restriction is that the club can't weigh more than 35 oz.

Russian dictator Josef Stalin never wore underwear. He was once asked why by one of his mistresses and he said "It would be wrong. Only the proletariat can be allowed to control the means of production."

The nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty was originally written as a description of the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century A.D. The original verse was in Latin, and is only known from descriptions in later works.

When Angelina Jolie moves into a new house one of the first things that she does is have part of it repainted. To the paint that is used for this, she adds a few drops of her own blood. She claims that the blood is "what makes a house into a home."

Actor James Cromwell has eleven fingers. He is very adept at holding his hand so that the eleventh finger never shows up in photos.

76% of professional baseball players would willingly take a pill that would take 5 years off their life if it would also allow them to hit over .300. 23% of players would take the pill if it took up to 20 years off their lives.

The largest zit ever recorded held over a cup and a half of pus when it was popped. The dermatologist who treated it said that it was "the most disgusting thing I have seen in 26 years of dermatology."

Properly treated, human hair can be induced to stretch by over 300%. The treatment to do this is a closely guarded secret of Hollywood. It's used to allow movie stars to change their hairstyles so often. Unfortunately, it also leads to early baldness. There are more human hair wigs bought in the city of Los Angeles than in any three other countries.

With extreme concentration and years of practice, certain Hindu yogis can cause their hearts to beat backwards. There is no known use for this from a health standpoint or a metaphysical standpoint. Apparently the yogis just wanted to see if it could be done.

In an effort to draw revelers away from New Orleans, the Galveston Texas City Council has made public nudity during their Mardi Gras festivities legal provided that the person is wearing a full face mask and all genitals are covered in paint.

The Australian Oblong Turtle (Chelodina oblonga) can preserve food within its digestive system for up to 3 months with change. It uses this ability to weather times of drought when food is scarce. Researchers are trying to determine what chemicals the turtles uses to save its meals, because they feel that they could be of use in shipping food long distances without refrigeration.

The New York City Salvation Army sponsors weekly pigeon hunts to help provide food for their kitchens. An average hunt nets over two tons of usable pigeon meat. The hunts started in 1983 as a way to control costs, and despite the significant amounts of meat taken there has been no net drop in the city's pigeon population.

All Peale's Dolphins (Lagenorhynchus australis) appear to be bisexual. Females of the species are the only animals aside from human who have been observed to use objects as sexual aids.

If every pornographic image found on the Internet were to be printed out in hard copy it would be enough to completely cover the surface of the Earth.

Candles made from human bodily materials last up to twice as long as candles made from materials from other animals, such as bees or cattle. Candles made from human ear wax burn 76% longer than candles made from beeswax, while candles made from human fat burn 103% longer than candles made from beef fat or tallow.

Mogul Donald Trump will only write on scratch paper that has been made from shredded 100 dollar bills. He feels that anything thing else is "for little people".

When Katie Couric became the anchorperson of CBS Evening News she had it written into her contract that she could miss up to 5 days of work a year due to "bad hair days".

In Scotland, it has been illegal for citizen to be vegetarians since 1847. It is believed that the law was originally enacted to discourage immigration from other parts of the British Empire, primarily Indians. The law, which has never been repealed, says that "Once a year every true citizen of Scotland must eat a fair and hearty portion of our savory and beloved nation dish, haggis." Although that there is no record of this law ever being enforced to the point of deporting some one, there is a newspaper account of a Scottish politician being forced, by mention of this law, to participate in a haggis-eating contest in 1923. His political enemies had claimed that he was not a "true citizen of Scotland" due to a distaste for the organ-laden dish. The politician in question not only won the competition, but he also won reelection to public official almost solely on his eating accomplishments.

8% of Washington state residents have said that they would be willing to try a bite of Bigfoot flesh if a specimen is every caught. 11% of Washington women have said that they would be willing to try and give birth to a Bigfoot baby (either by artificial insemination or natural means) if they had the chance.

As a young man, preacher Jerry Falwell wanted to be an actor and attempted to start his career by doing impressions. His best impression was an apparently spot-on impression of Warren G. Harding. Falwell worked very hard on that one, studying old newsreels and descriptions of the President. Although his act was praised by the history professor of his local community college as being very accurate and having a "blisteringly funny take" on the Teapot Dome scandal no one else cared about Warren G. Harding. His one man show only attracted 2 paying attendees. He quit show business and went into religion, complaining that "The immorality of modern culture has rendered humanity insensible to true entertainment and respondent only to the lures of sex, drugs and violence." To this day, he leaves the room whenever Warren G. Harding is mentioned, in any context.

There is a new shirt being marketed in Japan that contains a network of sensors and a Wi-Fi transmitter that allows realtime monitoring of the wearer's health on a website. Although the product was originally intended for monitoring elderly hospital patients, it has been snapped up by Japanese mothers who want to be able to monitor their childrens' health at all times. School administrators have become increasingly frustrated with calls from mothers saying that their kids need to go to the doctor immediately based on their Internet health readings. One woman called a school's office screaming that her child had died when in fact he had only removed his shirt for a gym class.

Hollywood mogul, Jeffrey Katzenberg, has two days of the year that he refuses to acknowledge for personal reasons. One is August 24th, the day that he resigned from Disney. The other is October 7th, but no one knows what happened then. His refusal to acknowledge these days has odd consequences for those working with him. His year is normal until August 24th, but after that day he insists that the date is always one day before the actual day. This gap grows to two days after October 7th. So anyone planning any type of meeting with him must make sure they know if they are talking about the actual date or not. Katzenberg's calendar resets with the New Year so he is back in sync with everyone else on January 1st. Katzenberg is so powerful in Hollywood that no one has yet challenged him on his annoying calendrical tendencies.

Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen has been working for years to try and get people interested in a revival of the World Octopus Wrestling Championships. He watched it on TV as a child and vowed to grow up and win the championship. He feels that he has always been denied his most fervently held dream and, despite his massive wealth, has always felt like a failure. While no one has committed to his idea of a revived championship, he practices his skills every weekend without fail. The largest octopus that he has wrestled so far was 55 lbs. He maintains a 50,000 gallon sea water tank to keep octopuses for training purposes.

Actor/activist Ed Begley Jr. makes all of his clothing out of recycled cloth diapers. He is working on developing this as a business model under the name Poo Pants. He intends to market more than just pants.

17% of office workers admit that they have stolen over $500 in equipment and supplies from a job. The most common rationale was "They owed me." The second-most common rationale was "I just like stealing things."

A recent study showed that people who are blind and have completely lost their eyeballs are much more proficient in successfully navigating an unknown area than blind people who have retained their eyeballs. The study suggested that those without eyeballs are able to use the empty eye sockets for simple echolocation.

When asked during a 2004 interview whether he had any regrets, former Senator John Glenn replied "Yes, I have always been sad that I never had a time in my life when I was able to really rock a mullet."

Although author Mark Twain made a great deal of money with his books, he died in debt due to a series of bad investments. One of these investments was a device that was intended to attract comets and bring them crashing down to the earth. There are two possible reasons he would fund such an unusual device. One suggestion is that he was trying to make Halley's Comet show up early. He had long said that he was linked to the comet and would die when it returned. He might have been trying to superstiously end his own life by having the comet show up sooner than expected. The other suggestion is that his well-known misanthropy was at work and he was trying to destroy the world by having a giant comet crash into it.

Former First Lady Jackie Kennedy was afraid of becoming a mental or physcial invalid late in life and not being able to live as she wished. In a bold and unusual move she hired a hitman to kill her if she ever became incapacitated and a burden on her family. Knowing that no one would approve of this, she arranged with the hitman that he would only kill her if he heard a specific word used in one of her interviews. It was an unusual word and would signal to the killer that she was ready to end her life. The only problem was that she forgot the word. This caused her to live in fear and greatly restrict the number of interviews she gave later in life. She also made it a point to only use simple words of no more than two syllables, in an effort to limit her chances of accidentally saying the kill word. Her diary chronicles the dread she always felt when she was unable to avoid giving an interview, and the relief she felt after several days had passed with nothing happening.

Senator John McCain always wears a piece of clothing with the phrase "No Fat Chicks" on it. He usually wears it as an undershirt, but he also has the phrase on boxers, a pair of socks and on the backside of seven of his ties. He says that he wears the phrase to help remind him of the important things in life.

During the run of Star Trek: The Next Generation, actress Bea Arthur was in serious negotiations to play Spock's elderly aunt. Her character was going to be suffering from a Vulcan disease that loosened her emotional control and made her continually sarcastic and obnoxious.

Daniel Snyder, the owner of the Washington Redskins, is a notorious insomniac. But he has recently been able to sleep well due to a new white noise CD that he plays at night. The CD is made up entirely of the sounds of the Madgascar Hissing Cockroach. His wife hates it and has to sleep with her head encased in a sensory deprivation enclosure.

U.S. Representative Denny Hastert sometimes has difficulty staying awake during House debates. He combats this by sitting on a thumbtack and relying on the pain to keep him awake. Although this was initially helpful, he has built up scar tissue on his buttocks that renders it less effective. He has had to move the thumbtack around quite a bit in order to have it pierce unscarred tissue. Occasionally when he stands up the thumbtack still stuck in his ass. This not only is an affront to his dignity, but it also ruins the cut of his suits. One of his aides is assigned to watch him every time he stands up to make sure that the thumbtack is out. He is currently contemplating have surgery to remove some of the scar tissue. He absolutely refuses to drink coffee to stay awake because he doesn't want to be an addict.

Actor/Director Woody Allen's little-known hobby is dog breeding. He never displays the results at shows, but he is working towards breeding the world's largrest dog. He is not working with large established breeds, such as the St. Bernard or the Mastiff, but instead wants the largest dog to be a mutt, because he thinks that it will be genetically healthier. He started working on this project for three reasons. 1) He wanted a large dog as proctection for him and his family, 2) he had long thought about filming a version of the Sherlock Holmes' story The Hound of the Baskervilles and he was unsatsified with the look of exisiting dogs, and 3) he has always wanted to play God.

Actress Reese Witherspoon has instructed her personal chef to come up with a diet that makes her farts smell sweet. The endeavour has not yet been completely successful, but Reese's farts now generally smell amazingly like a freshly toasted English muffin. Oddly, she hates English muffins and refuses to eat them.

Former NFL quarterback Joe Theismann has offered various people up to $100,000 for the chance to break their legs. He claims that it was at the suggestion of a psychaiatrist who thought that it might help him with some of the issues that he has realting to the injury that ended his playing career. To date, no one has taken him up on his offer, but he carries the $100,000 with him at all times, just in case he finds a willing subject.

In 1980, the FBI investigated charges of anti-American activities amongst the cast and crew of the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati. The investigation lasted 6 months and produced 1500 linear feet of records. Although there were never any charges filed, the records have been classified Top Secret and will not be subject to review for 100 years.

Former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill had very unusual tastebuds. He tasted sour things as sweet. He estimated that over the course of his lifetime he won over $40,000 in bar bets having to do with eating lemons.

Swedish engineers have built a functional car whose body is made entirely of snow and ice. The engine is made of ceramics and plastics to reduce heat. Although it is slow having a top speed of only 15 miles an hour, it does run, and recently completed a 200 mile test drive.

Political commentator George Will has one superstition that he adheres to rigorously. The first visitor that he receives in his house in the new year has to be of Latvian descent, and have red hair. He keeps a list of people who meet this criteria and he makes a point of inviting them to come over early on New Year's Day. He is very serious about this. He once physically tackled a man who attempted to come in before the yearly Latvian arrived. Will was eventually forced to settle out of court for an undisclosed (but reportedly six figure) sum in order to keep the man from pressing assault charges.

In the United States, the animal most likely to cause a traffic accident is the opossum. There are two reasons for this (in addition to its relative abundance compared to other animals). 1) Some people find it so cute when it waddles across the road that they frantically swerve to avoid it, and 2) some people, having never seen an opossum before, think it's a giant rat and swerve frantically to try and hit it.

As part of his rather substantial fortune, Vice President Dick Cheney owns a string of junkyards in the Midwest. His junkyards are legendary for their poor customer service. Cheney defended their performance in a 1995 interview saying "Have you seen the people who frequent junkyards? They are creepy, car-obsessed losers. Most of them forget to bathe half the time, and they can't form a coherent sentence that doesn't involve timing belts. If my staff were friendly, they would have to listen to these losers yammer on about the various junkheaps that they are vainly trying to restore. So, yeah, I am okay with my staff being unfriendly because I don't think that they need the grief of having prolonged conversations with the car troglodytes."

Actor/comedian Jerry Lewis folds pornographic origami as a means of relaxation. His work has been featured prominently in several Japanese museums, including one solo show.