Was Major his first name?

It's marginally better than if it was "Jealous".

It's marginally better than if it was "Jealous".

I know!!

Ah. Wikipedia tells me (a) he made the whole thing up, and (b) "Rev. Major" was the title. [link]

At his urging, the Kleberg County commissioners on Monday unanimously designated "heaven-o" as the county's official greeting. The reason: "hello" contains the word "hell."

God save us from tiny minds. And really, he's got the whole town saying it? Frankly, I find it a bit creepy. I mean, I can remember a brief period of my youth when it was funny to note that "hello" had "hell" in it, and my friends and I would greet each other with HELL-OH! But I grew out of that. So is it that the whole town has the collective maturity of an 8 year old?

heh ... reminds me of someone I worked with years ago - she was expecting a baby and was picking names. She liked the name Kirstie ... but wouldn't use it because it sounds like "curse". The craxy, it is strong.

Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element

"More than a decade after experiments first produced a single atom of "super-heavy" element 112, a team of German scientists has been credited with its discovery, but it has yet to be named. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has temporarily named the element ununbium, as "ununbi" means "one one two" in Latin; but the team now has the task of proposing its official name."

I propose a write-in campaign to name it 'Buffistium.'

Exposure to a vacuum won't cause you to blow up, it would give you the bends however. I'm not sure exactly what would kill you, but my guess is that suffocation would get you first. You shouldn't freeze because without convection your body wouldn't radiate heat fast enough to freeze you before suffocating.

As far as clearing your sinuses, you'd probably set at least a little clearing if you took a breath right before exposure and closed your mouth.

As if refusing to say "hello" weren't bad enough, they're actually saying "heaven-oh" instead?

It sounds like a new breakfast cereal. What would Jesus eat?

What would Jesus eat?

ha! And yet, I find the actual question rather interesting. I bet there are some food anthropologists out there who've answered that one.

Checking The Food Chronology, which I happen to have here at hand, and assuming Jesus's diet was basically Roman, he'd probably be eating mostly bread, barley gruel, olives, wine, fish, and poultry. I recall fish, wine, and bread being mentioned in the Gospels.

This is interesting. Apparently, the Romans loved asparagus and considered a meal sub-par without it, and Roman foodies were all about the artichoke. They also used a lot of spices, and salted *everything*, including wine. Salt was used in the cheese-making process, and to make bread rise, and to preserve meat. I can't fathom the desire to salt their wine, though. I've read elsewhere that they watered down the wine with seawater; don't know if that's true.

Do we have any copyeditors looking for freelance work? [link]