Here's one of my favorite snippets from the latest edition of the "Harper's Weekly" email newsletter:
Scottish scientists were
developing a pill that will simultaneously boost women's
sex drive and decrease their weight. When the pill was
given to monkeys, said the scientists, females displayed
their feelings via "rump presentation and tail wagging"
and males through tongue-flicking and eyebrow-raising. A
68-year-old grandmother in England was the runner-up for
"txt laureate" for writing a love poem to her husband. "O
hart tht sorz," she wrote, "My luv adorz, He mAks me liv,
He mAks me giv, Myslf 2 him, As my luv porz." Guests at a
wedding in Patna, India, decided that the groom had
arrived too drunk and had the bride marry his brother
instead, and a farmer in eastern India beheaded one of his
workers with a sword for failing to milk his cows. Four
thousand Filipina mothers in Manila tried to break the
world record for simultaneous breastfeeding.
