The durian is “the fruit of trees from the genus Durio belonging to the Malvaceae, a large family which includes hibiscus, okra, cotton, mallows, and linden trees” So begins the wikipedia article. Blah, blah, blah, who cares. Right?
Well, sometimes the peculiar hides right in plain sight. Further on in the article, there was some very […]

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Need to polish your shoes? Use a banana peel. They say it works.
http://www.wikihow.com/Polish-Shoes-With-a-Banana
I think it is funny, but I’m not sure I believe a banana peel is really equivalent to shoe polish. Whatever properties a banana peel shares with shoe polish, a banana doesn’t have everything that shoe polish does.
If you give it a try […]

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This was sent along to me. A bit of economics humor:

I took this out of an article I was reading……
“For it is not hard to understand that, given a fixed quantity of energy consumed, if the GDP figure is inflated, the per-unit-GDP energy consumption is lowered. And there are many tricks local officials use to […]

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