J’s Law. The linguistic phenomenon also known as the Beavis and Butt-Head principle.

What do these words have in common?

Donkey
Rooster
Cat
Embankment
Exuberant
Strange
Sober
Patio door
Siphon
Viennese
Richard
Hillock
Burrow
Bump

Stumped?

How about THESE words:

Ass
Cock
Pussy
Dyke
Gay
Queer
Straight
Back door
Suck
Wiener
Dick
Hump
Penetrate
Butt

I bet you can think of something in common for those. They’re the same meanings as above, you sick pervert. Yes. That, my friends, is J’s Law. The law states:

Should any word have two meanings, one of which is prurient, sexual, or scatological, that meaning will overtake the other neutral, innocuous, or practical meaning, eventually rendering the word useless for polite conversation.

Hence, any word that shares its spelling and/or pronunciation with a dirty word is doomed to become hopelessly dirty itself. Isn’t that sad?

Spammers create much unintentional humor

Two spam messages in a row:

• Watch her gasp at your new size
• Get an instant cut off

Oops…

Boeing gets reprieve. Pentagon gets mulligan.

Pentagon puts air tanker contract up for re-bid.

Normally I’m not too thrilled about a company that bitches and moans getting what it wants, but Boeing was justified here. Pentagonal buffoonery is what caused Airbus to win this contract, not to mention McCain’s intrigues. What exactly the “significant errors” were, I’m not sure. If anyone wants to link me to further information on that, please go ahead.

Frankly, I think the loser of this contract should start working on something more interesting, like the Sonic Cruiser. Remember that? Who gives a fuck about having 400 airborne tankers? We don’t need to be blowing anymore shit up than we already are.

The world is pretty chilly when you think about it.

Think of it this way. 0 degrees Kelvin is as cold as it can ever get. It means an absolute lack of thermal energy, which is what makes heat. By comparison, the Sun is 5800 degrees Kelvin at its surface and 15.7 MILLION degrees at its core. Nuclear bombs may reach even higher. When the Big Bang happened, scientists believe the temperature was around 100 BILLION degrees Kelvin.

So 0 to 100,000,000,000. That’s our working range of possible temperatures. Consider that  we’d consider it a freakishly hot day if the temperature reached 325 K, and that our most advanced metals melt around 2500 K. That’s at the lower end of the scale, folks.

Yeah. I need a better hobby.

3 looks like half of an 8

But 3 is not half of 8. How fucked up is that?