Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up.
IN HOUSTON, Texas, in 1974, Dr Myron Fox gave a lecture entitled ‘Mathematical Game Theory as applied to Physical Education’ to a group of 55 educators, psychiatrists, and social workers.
After the thirty minute lecture the listeners were asked to rate the lecture for content and usefulness. Almost all said it was very worthwhile, and would be a help in their careers.
Sadly, the lecture was total nonsense and meaningless double-talk, carefully constructed to prove that most people attending such lectures don’t pay attention.
ROY SULLIVAN, a retired forest ranger from Waynesboro, Virginia, was probably one of the luckiest people alive: or unluckiest.
He held the peculiar record of surviving more lightning strikes than anyone else. Between 1942 and 1977 he was struck seven times, most times receiving minor burns and having his hair set on fire twice.
In 1981, aged 71, Sullivan committed suicide by shooting himself as a result of unrequited love.
Improve your vocabulary
Bubulcitate: To cry like a cowboy! [I’d be grateful if anyone can tell me exactly what that means.]
Cereologist: A person who specializes in investigating crop circles.
Apophthegms
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
The word gullible doesn’t appear in any dictionary!
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