Today's Ash Wednesday, so I salute all those dusty ones who shall return. And if the following image of the current champion, Don, doesn't cultivate 40 days' worth of pensive humility, item 3 has the link for more.
1) I was reading the following item from reference.com: "Yawning is an involuntary action that causes us to open our mouths wide and breathe in deeply. No one knows for sure why we yawn, but there are some interesting theories. One states that yawning is physiological: we yawn to draw in more oxygen or remove a build-up of carbon dioxide. Another theory states that we yawn because we are bored, fatigued, or drowsy, while a third suggests that yawning is evolutionary; according to this theory, our ancestors used yawning to intimidate others by showing their teeth, or to signal a change in activity. The use of yawning as a form of communication would also explain why some people find yawning contagious; 55% of people will yawn within five minutes of seeing someone else yawn."
I found myself yawning even before I got to the following part: "Reading about yawning usually makes people yawn as well. The average yawn lasts about six seconds. All animals appear to yawn, too!"
Did you yawn reading that, too? Sure it's boring, but more than that, I think. Doesn't that strange contagious reflex seem like more than just a simple form of communication? I don't talk or even grunt back to the computer screen usually anyway. So why did the translation of dark squiggles into meaning in my brain cause me to yawn? I don't sneeze when I read that word. Anyway, here's to the deep mysteries inherent in the everyday.
2) I don't think I could live through the original, almost eight-minute version, but as someone who's mocked David Caruso's woodenly humorless "acting" on CSI:Miami for as many seasons as it's existed, I adored this video compliation of his "Sunglass Method". See 24's Keifer Sutherland for "Whisper Method."
Defamer: Caruso One-liners, Endless Sunglass Edition
3) Via April, if the Valentine's Post left you hungry for more man-meat stew, here's your cup-overflowing helping of mannery glands.
"Man Boobs UK
The tastelessness of today's post merely documents my need for penitential contemplation.
3 comments:
Caruso is such a tool. Notice how most of the lines were said with the same cadence and tone? My toilet has more depth than this sn**ch. Jeez.
Is that picture real?!!! OMFG!! Yikes!
Interesting about the yawning. Kind of hard to imagine that yawning was used to intimidate people like when dogs growl and show their teeth. The two just don't seem to go together. I mean how many times have you wanted to attack someone when you are yawning...?
Free Huge Tits
Gynecomastia can be emotionally daunting to men who have the condition. Good thing there are now procedures that are proven to be safe and effective in removing these excess fats on their chest area.
Post a Comment