Oddball Facts: Food and Etc.
by Miki Saxon
I should have called this series “Did you know…?” because that’s how I keep wanting to start every time I write Oddball Facts. Oh well…
Seems that most people these days are either trying to lose weight, so, of course, they work at reducing the amount of food they eat. If the average person eats about 60,000 pounds in the course of their life—the equivalent of about six elephants—look around and just think how many extra elephants some of the people you see must have consumed.
I wonder it the half a billion dollars American kids spend on chewing gum is included or in addition to the 60,000 lifetime pounds.
While we’re on the subject of people food, you can add the more than $11 billion in comestibles that we feed our dogs and cats.
I often wonder why most Americans are upset over the possibility that the US Post Office will eliminate Saturday mail delivery in an effort to reduce costs. Canada eliminated Saturday service in 1969 and seems to be doing just fine.
Try dropping this bit of trivia at your next boring lunch or meeting—more people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones. If nothing else it’s sure shut people up while they try and come up with a response.
Finally, a salute to ingenuity, not to mention sheer guts. Cary Copestakes had tuition to pay and no money, so she decided to auction her virginity on eBay with a starting bid of $10,000 (at least she put a high value on herself). Lucky Cary, the man who won the bidding felt sorry for her, so he gave her the money, but didn’t collect on the service.
I wish you all a wonderful Mother’s Day, whether you are a mother or not.
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May 10th, 2011 at 10:51 am
I’m almost speechless! Does she realize what a risk she was taking? Obviously she doesn’t watch the news, read detective novels or watch movies as much as I do! I’m sure the Craiglist killer has a equivelant out there somewhere who could have taken advantage of that situation.
Then there’s the fact that taking money for sex is prostitution in a lot of states and she could have gotten a record out of the deal.
May 10th, 2011 at 10:59 am
Hi Julie, Everything you say is true, but you are assuming that she thought at all and I find that’s a bad assumption these days no matter what age a person is.
May 10th, 2011 at 11:02 am
Oh yes I am silly – how could I make that assumtion? You know what they say about the word assume. I’m getting old I guess! :)
May 10th, 2011 at 11:10 am
LOL. I’m getting old, too; not only that, but we both still think, understand cause and effect and consequences. Shame on us!