Is It Friday Yet?

I was pointed to this site from another site I frequent. It’s lots of fun if you have a) a high-speed Internet connection and b) lots of spare time.

Enjoy!

Five of the better entries in Merlin’s Lists of Five Things:

Five congressional terms that sound kind of dirty
Five observations from my first 25 minutes of yoga
Five requests with regard to my eventual death
Five things you don’t want to hear from someone emerging from a bathroom after 35 minutes
Five great reasons to buy a Hummer™

Remember that really deep hole you dug as a kid? The one that was going all the way to China if you could finish before dinner? You might want to double check where that hole through the center of the Earth will end.

An enterprising office drone has made a “Work Blind” for his cubicle, a vinyl curtain printed with a photo of himself hard at work at his computer.

It should come as no surprise that this happens in the UK: Bog Snorkelling.

Competitors have to complete two lengths of a 60 yard trench cut through the peat bog in the quickest time possible, wearing snorkels and flippers (wet suits optional but advisable) but without using any conventional swimming strokes.

They also do it on mountain bikes.

Unrelated, but also in the UK: Table wrestling.

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So there.

Mei Wah is a crash course in Chinese. Well, at least enough to read menus.