Mead, first brewed in Babylon more than 4,000 years ago making it one of the world's oldest alcoholic drinks, has long been believed to increase fertility and sex drive.Sounds like it might be more fun to pour ON your bride rather than IN your bride.
In ancient Persia couples were expected to imbibe the sweet mead every day for one "honey month" -- hence honeymoon -- after they tied the knot to achieve the right frame of mind for a successful marriage.
Mules are bred by mating a male donkey with a female horse. The breeding success is about the same as among horses alone. Mating a male horse with a female donkey produces an animal called a hinnie. Both mules and hinnies can be either male or female, but they are almost invariably sterile.
"It's nice to say we would have done something,"former shuttle commander Rick Searfoss said, "but you get killed in this business when you wing things like that."It\'s easy to slip into these kind of thought experiments about what 'could have' been done to save the Columbia crew. There are always things that are possible. But that's not the same as 'safe'
"It's a delicious animal Mr. Billman," he said, looking at my untouched plate. "You really should have a bite." I was tempted. My animal-rights half was outraged, but I had to respect the club's ballsy defiance of the law. And frankly, the meat didn't look that bad; fork tender but not fatty, just a touch of gristle.
I took a poll -- it doesn't taste like chicken. Some club members likened it to tuna, others said it was closer to buffalo. One said it was like pork, with a hint of seafood. One guy asked if I'd ever had possum. When I said no, he told me the two were virtually indistinguishable.The troublesome thing about the Manatee issue is no one really knows. Every one has guesses, but no one has irrefutable facts. There's no real science and no real statistics. No one knows exactly how many there are. No one knows exactly how many are killed every year, and how. No one knows how many there were ten years ago or twenty years ago. The good ole boys may look dumb but maybe they're not as dumb as they look. Maybe the good ole boys have a point.
If I had to make my final bet right now, I'd have to go with Carter to get the nomination and beat Ford -- but I'm still not sure what to make of it, except that all the alternatives seem a hell of a lot worse, and I honestly doubt if the outcome of this election will make any real difference to anybody. The die is cast, the fat is in the fire, and if the Grim Reaper wants to come on like Jesus, so be it.My favorite part is the last sentence which I'm seriously considering for my sig file.
"I was either going to kill myself or I was going to kill the journalist persona," he said. "So Jayson Blair the human being could live, Jayson Blair the journalist had to die."Blair was going to kill himself? Sounds like Blair was trapped in some sort of gay drama.- USATODAY.com - Ex-reporter Blair 'couldn't stop laughing' at one deception.
"I have seen thousands of priests and bishops and even the pope himself transmogrified in front of our eyes into a worldwide network of thieves and perverts and sodomites who relentlessly penetrate children of all genders and call it holy penance for being born guilty in the eyes of the church. Whoops! I have wandered off on some kind of vengeful tangent here."
It's just one more example of why anyone with a brain inevitably develops contempt for Congress.
"Whether it's enforceable or not, I don't know," said Schumacher when asked about the new rule at a news conference at the A1 Ring. "Certainly the obvious team orders will be enforceable and we made a clear statement from our point of view on how we are going to do things. There is nothing else to add."
But money often trumps tradition. The Indianapolis Star reported yesterday that teams that already have cars in the field have shown little interest in adding cars. Teams have so much cash from their sponsors, and sponsors are not interested in spending more.One of the reasons there is less sponsorship money is because of the bad economy. That's clear. But I can't help thinking that part of the reason is because the The Indianapolis 500 just isn't the same caliber race it used to be.
epidemic was first detected in March, the White House position on the to 7.2 percent. war. accused France of trying by the World Health Organization had to take NATO hostage and of ranged from 2 percent, when the threatening smaller countries that had backed be among sincerity," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan infectious diseases with the highest death said. Meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national rates. Until now, fatality rates reported security adviser, bound to change somewhat as an made any mistakes, and has taken epidemic continues. But unless the numbers all the necessary steps in all fall drastically, SARS would opening its doors to people, the first major epidemiological study the American military during the Iraq of the disease suggests. Mortality rates are war. "Turkey, from the very beginning, never 55 percent States deputy defense secretary, suggesting that in people 60 and older, and the country had made a mistake up to 13.2 percent in younger by not The death rate from SARS may Officials in Turkey today rejected criticism be significantly higher than health officials by Paul D. Wolfowitz, the United had thought, up toIf I ever write a book, I'll drop in a paragraph or two of this gobbledygook to confuse and frustrate readers. It also lends an air of artistic pretension.
Moments after the race was over, the crowd surged wildly for the exits, rushing for cabs and busses. The next day's Courier told of violence in the parking lot; people were punched and trampled, pockets were picked, children lost, bottles hurled. But we missed all this, having retired to the press box for a bit of post-race drinking. By this time we [Thompson and British sketch artist Ralph Steadman] were both half-crazy from too much whiskey, sun fatigue, culture shock, lack of sleep and general dissolution. We hung around the press box long enough to watch a mass interview with the winning owner, a dapper little man named Lehmann who said he had just flown in from Louisville that morning from Nepal, where he'd "bagged a record tiger." The sportswriters murmmered their admiration and a waiter filled Lehman's glass with Chivas Regal. He had just won $127,000 with a horse that cost him $6,500 two years ago. His occupation, he said, was "retired contractor." And then he added, with a big grin, "I just retired."
"I'm just amazed that we don't have more problems like this," said Means, who couldn't recall one.I guess, "Opps, sorry", is an acceptable response as long as you\'re not the one spending the night in jail.
So to sum up, my predictions for the weekend are expect Michael Schumacher to take pole and fastest lap, but I reckon David Coulthard will win with Rubens Barrichello second and Kimi Raikkonen third. Then will come the two Williams' of Juan Montoya and Ralf Schumacher, in fourth and fifth respectively with Mark Webber completing the top six. Will they finish anything like this? Who knows... but enjoy the GP...Read the whole thing at:Yahoo! Sport - Blundell\'s view: Spanish Grand Prix