Friday, October 30, 2009

Seven (More) Wonders

I wonder...

1. why no one helped out poor seng who posted the following to a tech advice site:
what mean of lcd and lcd srceen??? my lcd sceen has some strange line which has some colour.so if i want to repair, whole lcd change or just lcd screen will be change???
2. when, exactly, Nickelback became Hootie & The Blowfish. You can hardly turn on the radio without hearing a nonthreatening pop rock song with a catchy chorus from them these days.

3. why Daughtry wants to out-Hootie them. Is it just the money, Chris?

4. how the terrible drivers survive on the road every day when they pay so little attention - even when they're not distracted by something in the car with them. I'm talking about the people that tick you off by driving 15 mph under the speed limit and then, when the road speed limit drops by 10 mph, suddenly they start going 5 mph over the limit.

5. where Mr. Nobel is nowadays. After all the spinning he must've been doing for the past few decades, he must've drilled at least down around the earth's core by now.

6. how I got to be as old as I have without a single person, up until recently, explaining that the stupid little pocket in all of my jeans is for a pocket watch...that no one carries anymore. I always thought it was for change or something. A pocket watch?? How much extra am I paying for jeans so that they have an extra pocket for a pocket watch?? And I highly doubt that even if I had a pocket watch it would actually fit into that little denim appendix.

7. how anyone could be gullible enough to believe pro-sports athletes when they talk about 'performance enhancing drugs' (no, not Viagra). Yeah, it was a coincidence that after rubbing some 'cream' on his legs Barry Bonds went from a skinny, gangly player of modest means to a hulking, rippling home run walloper. Mark McGwire? Yeah, he was pumped up a bit, but oddly become a bulging beast after getting poked in the rear with 'vitamins'. And how about football? Gee, isn't it funny that San Diego's quarterback-destroying beast, Shawne Merriman, gets suspended for preparing with more than dumbbells and protein shakes, denying that he used anything he shouldn't have, but comes back and can neither perform as before nor stay even reasonably healthy? Now, I'm not saying that it doesn't say something about professional sports that some athletes can't perform at a consistently high level and endure the harsh physicality of their sport naturally, but it doesn't mean we have to believe them when confronted with awfully incriminating evidence contrary to what they're claiming.

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