Don’t count out such research. I heard that if your hand is bigger than your face, you have cancer. SMACK!

I’m not sure how many of you have experience setting up scientific experiments or have knowledge of the concepts of correlation and causation, but if you can find a more asinine waste of grant money, please let me know.

Headline yesterday: Church Attendance Boosts Student GPAs

Really? Kids who are taught self-discipline to go somewhere once a week are more likely to be better at school which is really a measure of…self-discipline?

Shocking.

There was a study done here at the U of S a couple years back and the result was, I kid you not, “Exercise is good for you”

I think they were going to tackle the mystery of whether food is good for us or not.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26180187/

There’s so much that can be done with this one. I’m not even going to point out that I was on the pill when Mike and I started dating. Oops…

This being an open thread and all (and me being on my lunch break), I’ll offer an additional topic of discussion: undergraduate apparel choices on American college campuses.

Undergrad classes start on Monday here, and many fresh-faced young pups have already arrived. On my way to get some food at the student center today, I noticed a trend in feminine fashion this season. That trend is tiny white thongs under tiny white shorts and skirts.

How did I notice this, you ask? Well, any man who works under a dress code and has a reasonable sense of style knows that you don’t wear a white t-shirt under a white dress shirt. Why? Because white is extremely visible through white. It makes no sense, but you can clearly see it. Instead, a modern man of style chooses a gray t-shirt, which is almost invisible under a white shirt. If you’ve not seen this yourself, give it a try. Other than maybe the hemmed edges of the sleeves, you can’t see a gray t-shirt through a white dress shirt.

Apparently, many young ladies today are unaware of this fact. It’s really unfortunate. Really.

/dirty old man

This WAS the biggest waste of time and money and I’ll tell you why.

Ian Brown.

Not only has me seeing him live last weekend rekindled my love for anything remotely connected to him or John Squier (they’re more worth than the sum of their parts), he also has a very thin face. He also politely offered to chop off the hands of a flight stewardess with plastic cutlery.

And of course you can say that “they only reviewed Hockey players, and not people in general”. But Hockey players aren’t genetically born as hockey players.

Tom
Pointing out the fairly obvious since 1987

From everything I’ve read, most enforcers are a) the nicest guys on the team, and b) only got to the enforcer role because they realized that they weren’t going to make it on skill, but really wanted to play in the nhl, thus the fist work. How that correlates to face size I’ll never figure, but maybe a wide face means you can’t play hockey worth jack. (I’m going to measure mine right now!)

I hear you Joe. I don’t know how you have managed to still write for the blog at all. I have updated my websites once since I started grad school in June. Shoot, I barely even keep up with reading about the Avs. Color me impressed with your multitaskness. Where are you studying? The undergrads are just showing up here but they don’t seem to be rocking the thongs as hard.