Funny and Stupid Ideas: 01 January 1999

The Gayest Gardener In Town?

I never knew mowing the lawn could be so much fun.

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How Did They Get That Name? game

Everyone knows that David Bowie got his name from a Tin Machine song, and that Queen got their name from Freddy's prediction that one day Brian May would play to *the* Queen from the roof of Buckingham palace - but what about other bands. Do you know about Spagna? About psychedielia's The Umbilical Chord? About Whipsnade, the animal Portishead? Do you?
I shall hereby challenge your pop knowledge with a quiz. I shall ask you where ten bands got their name from and then let you know how well you did...

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Liquid water discovered on Saturn moon

The orbiting Cassini probe has taken his-res photos of "icy jets and giant water vapor plumes from geysers resembling frozen Old Faithfuls" on one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus. Liquid water discovered on Saturn moon "We have the smoking gun" that proves the existence of water, said Carolyn Porco, a Cassini imaging scientist from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

If Enceladus does harbor life, it probably consists of microbes or other primitive organisms capable of living in extreme conditions, scientists say.

The findings were published in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

David Morrison, a senior scientist at NASA's Astrobiology Institute, cautioned against rushing to judgment about whether the tiny moon could support life. Scientists generally agree habitats need several ingredients for life to emerge, including water, a stable heat source and the right chemical recipe.
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Kircher’s Cat Piano

Athanasius Kircher first described the cat piano in his landmark 1650 work Musurgia Universalis.

In order to raise the spirits of an Italian prince burdened by the cares of his position, a musician created for him a cat piano. The musician selected cats whose natural voices were at different pitches and arranged them in cages side by side, so that when a key on the piano was depressed, a mechanism drove a sharp spike into the appropriate cat’s tail. The result was a melody of meows that became more vigorous as the cats became more desperate. Who could not help but laugh at such music? Thus was the prince raised from his melancholy.

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Duck Fart Water

Duck Fart Water For humans.

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David Beckham and Victoria Beckham lookalikes Matthew & Nerys Middleton

After almost 7 years at the top and still beating off all Lookalike competion Matthew & Nerys Middleton are the worlds leading celebrity Beckham look-alike couple. They are personally known to David & Victoria Beckham and have been doubling for them all around the globe taking them to places such as Hong Kong, Japan, Los Angeles, Madrid & Istanbul.

The names Matthew & Nerys Middleton are internationally known. They have featured and been interviewed on all major television channels including ITV’S This Morning, GMTV, BBC2 Horizon, SKY, ITV’S On The Ball, Germanys ZDF & Hong Kong’s Cable TV channel throughout Euro 2004.

There national press and magazine coverage includes top companies such as OK Magazine, Daily Mirror, The Sun, Daily Mail, Mail On Sunday, News Of The World, The Observer, Glamour Magazine, Closer Magazine & Now Magazine.

They have a client list ( see past events page ) almost as impressive as David & Victoria themselves, companies include Vodafone, Toshiba, British Airways, The English F.A, UEFA, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Marks & Spencer, Wella & Ministry Of Sound.

Without a doubt Matthew & Nerys blow all lookalike competition away, having collected awards on the famous couples behalf, Body Doubled and also modelled clothing designed by David himself this makes them the number 1 choice when booking Lookalikes.

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