–On April 25th, a 66-year-old retired veterinarian triathlete while training was killed in a shark attack off the California coast. It was the first shark attack there in four years, and the 96th since 1926. The man suffered massive bite wounds to his legs by the Great White, and attempts to save him failed. The shark swam away after inflicting the fatal bite…
Archive for the ‘science’ category
Fatal Shark Attack
April 28, 2008Ants
April 23, 2008
— There are more insects on an acre of country land in the summer than there are human beings on the face of the earth…
I went into a garden shop, picked up an insecticide, and asked the cashier if it was good for red ants. “Nah,” he said, “It’ll kill them!”
Baby Born With Two Faces
April 9, 2008
–In India about 25 miles from New Delhi, a baby was born to impoverished parents that has two faces on a single head…two sets of eyes, two noses, and two mouths. The child is in no acute danger, and there is no talk of separation, which would likely be impossible.
Now about a month old, the baby is revered by many as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, and is visited by throngs offering money or other gifts and wishing to touch the baby’s feet in search of blessings…
Mother of All Toads…
February 28, 2008
—They’ve found fossilized remains in Madagascar of a toad about the size of a bowling ball that weighed ten pounds and co-existed with the dinosaurs. This sucker also had an armorized hide and teeth!–Called beelzebufo or “devil frog,” this new specimen shows us that we continue to discover new life forms, extinct and present today, with many more certain to be discovered in the future
Watch the Skies, Too…
February 15, 2008
–Fear not!–Your government, which put up a non-functioning spy satellite (your tax dollars at work), has now developed a plan to have the navy shoot down the sucker before it can fall on our sorry heads later this month, or in early March. This is good, because even if the spy in the sky doesn’t hit us directly, a component of it could poison an area the size of two football fields…we’ll just hope that the rocket being sent to knock out the spy satellite works better than the satellite itself…
…as Pogo the Possum once said long ago, “we have met the enemy, and he is us.”
FOXSYLVANIA 
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