The Price of Gas versus Printer Ink
May 7, 2008
I’m just trying to find something funny in the absurdity of what is called everyday life.
So you think a gallon of gas is expensive?
Well the following comparisons may lift your spirits a bit at your next trip to the gas station. If not go to Parago Exports and learn how to safe on fuel.
All the following examples do NOT imply that gasoline is cheap; they just illustrate how outrageous some prices are in comparison:
• Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 ………. $ 10.32 per gallon
• Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 ………. $ 9.52 per gallon
• Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 ………. $ 10.17 per gallon
• Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 ………. $ 10.00 per gallon
• Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 ………. $ 33.60 per gallon
• Vick’s Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 ………. $178.13 per gallon
• Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 ………. $123.20 per gallon
• Scope Mouthwash 1.5 oz $0.99 ………. $ 84.48 per gallon
And here is the REAL KICKER…
Evian water 9 oz $1.49……$21.19 per gallon! $21.19 for WATER and we, the buyers, don’t even know the source
(Now mind you: Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)
And just one more mindblower:
Ever wonder why printers are so cheap?
So they have you hooked for the ink.
Someone calculated the cost of the ink at……………
(you won’t believe it….but it is true……..)
$5,200 a gal. (five thousand two hundred dollars).
So, the next time you’re at the pump, be glad your car doesn’t run on water, Scope, or Whiteout, Pepto Bismol, Nyquil or God forbid, Printer Ink!
Have a Great Day!
Just a little humor to help ease the pain of your next trip to the pump…
Once again…
April 27, 2008
From around the world, we grab some of the weirdest, wackiest stories from around the world. Not because of its comical value, but to keep you aware of the type of people we have in this world. Beware! Read more
Balding Penguin Gets Wetsuit for Warmth
April 27, 2008
He was cold!
Forget the Rogaine — Pierre the penguin got a wetsuit. The 25-year-old African bird was going bald, so biologists at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco outfitted him in a specially-designed wetsuit to encourage him back into the water. Here, Pierre models his sleek duds for aquatic biologist Pam Schaller.
Sounds like a joke, but it’s quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things.
Pierre, a venerable 25 years old, was going bald, which left him with an embarrassingly exposed, pale pink behind.
Unlike marine mammals, which have a layer of blubber to keep them warm, penguins rely on their waterproof feathers. Without them, Pierre was unwilling to plunge into the academy’s penguin tank and ended up shivering on the sidelines while his 19 peers played in the water.
“He was cold; he would shake,” said Pam Schaller, a senior aquatic biologist at the academy.
Pierre’s species of penguin is accustomed to temperate climates, unlike many of their cousins. The birds are nicknamed Jackass penguins because they make sounds similar to braying donkeys, quite startling the first time you hear it in an aquarium.
Schaller first tried a heat lamp to keep Pierre warm. Then she got another idea: If wetsuits help humans frolic in the chilly Pacific, why not whip up one in a slightly smaller size?
Staff at Oceanic Worldwide, a supplier of dive gear based in San Leandro, were enthusiastic about making a real penguin suit.
“We were really excited to do it,” said Teo Tertel, company marketing specialist. “We heard most of these penguins only live to 20, and our little buddy there was already 25. Anything we could do to help them, we were all for it.”
Schaller conducted fittings to design the suit, which fastens with Velcro at the back, covers Pierre’s torso and has small openings for his flippers.
“I would walk behind him and look at where there were any gaps, and cut and refit and cut and refit until it looked like it was extremely streamlined,” she said.
One concern was that the other penguins would reject Pierre in his new duds, but in fact, they accepted his sleek new look.
Pierre was outfitted with the suit about six weeks ago. Since then, he has gained weight, grown back feathers on his hind parts and is again acting like his feisty, alpha-male self.
On a recent visit, Pierre waddled around the tank, taking brief dips and standing on a rock next to his mate. He blended in well, although he was the only penguin with a black tummy.
Schaller can’t say for sure whether the wetsuit allowed Pierre to recover his fine feathers, but “certainly we were able to keep him comfortable during a period of time that would have been very difficult for him to stay comfortable.”
With his plumage restored, Pierre is being weaned off the suit, taking more and more dips in the buff.
There are no plans to make him a matching surf board.
More wacky news
April 16, 2008
Here is another interesting weird, wacky story that I found.
You guessed it… Weird, Wacky news
April 14, 2008
It’s been a while, but it’s back! As the world turns, some people just never learn. Read more
