The self proclaimed “Champagne of Comics”
(It’s about how last month’s murder rate was the lowest it’s been in January in 30 years)
“Bawlmer, Janyary Ao Aight”
Hey, wuzzat
jyumpin
Hey
splaishin
Froag.
Dem froags
be jyumpin—
Splaish.
Wouldn’t it be funny
if The Finger had designed us
to shit just once a week?
all week long we’d get fatter
and fatter and then on Sunday morning
while everyone’s in church
ploop!
1959 - Frank O’Hara
“Les Bise aux Hippies” performed by Brigitte Bardot and Sacha Distel with Serge Gainsbourg (pretending to be) on guitar.
I can’t tell if this was supposed to be funny or not. Either way, it is. Especially when Brigette whips out her git.
read about the film I worked on all weekend
Did you meet Aasif Mandvi? He so funny!
Just read this interesting article in Time Magazine about how romance is linked to smell. We respond to olfactory cues and in fact, smell helps us narrow our choices of potential partners.
MHC (the major histocompatibility complex), a set of genes that controls the immune system and influences tissue rejection is especially critical. You jive best with a partner whose MHC is sufficiently different from your own. Studies show that couples with similar MHC’s have trouble conceiving or an increased risk of miscarriage.
A study had females smell various t-shirts worn by different anonymous men, then pick the one that appealed to them most. Most women chose ones worn by men with a MHC dissimilar to her own (=good). Those who chose the t-shirts worn by men with similar MHC (=bad) were on birth control. The daily dose of hormones confounds the MHC-smell detection system.
A chemist associated with the studies “wonders if the Pill may contribute to divorce… Women pick a husband when they’re on birth control, then quit to have a baby and realize they’ve made a mistake.” Here’s an in depth description of the study & a scientific explanation here.
Watch out Match.com, ScientificMatch.com is taking over. My friend Pavla read about this online dating service where you send in saliva samples and the program matches you with a mate with dissimilar immune system genes. Only $1,995.95 for a year for anyone except convicted criminals or women on birth control.
— dihard
We totally watched a video about this last semester in my “Human Evolution” class.
