Safe Excitement
Pitch Drop Experiment — DMC members still waiting
Our members indeed have patience. We continue to get emails about how they are waiting for the next drop.
There's good news in once sense. Unlike many dripping things, no one's complaining about this one being too bothersome.
Dull Webcam of the Year? Perhaps, addition to our annual Dull Man of the Year award, we should start a Dull Webcam of the Year award.
From Australia:
Gentlemen,
I submit for your consideration:
Pitch Drop Experiment — Truly Safe Excitement
85-year experiment still going strong to test the viscosity of pitch (a tar derivative). You can watch tar drip once every couple of years live via webcam. This is science at its most interesting:
http://smp.uq.edu.au/content/pitch-drop-experiment
Scott Dicus
Kansas City
January 27, 2012
Extreme Salad Bar Consuming
Dear Grover
This is a tricky one. I admire the ingenuity involved in building a salad tower, but I am not sure if we should encourage the craze. Perhaps we could advise readers to “enjoy salad responsibly”. It seems to work for whisky.
Regards
Steve Reszetniak
London
Watching Paint Dry Championsips
Goal: After England's recent disappointments in sports — football and rugby ("it's more exciting to watch paint dry") — it's time to find something at which England can excel. The sponsors of these championships think watching paint dry could be the answer.
How to Enter: send in (1) picture of you watching paint dry; (2) state the longest time you've stared at a wall, watching paint dry, without looking away; (3) favorite paint color to watch dry and why.
Frost: watching it thaw
Dear Fellow Dull Men,
I have a new activity that can be practiced by dull men--watching frost thaw.
This morning I was at a golf course where a sharp freeze had covered the ground with frost. Because the dull men who run the course won't let people play until the frost is gone -- walking on the frost might kill the grass and that would be exciting -- a bunch of dull men were standing around just staring at the first tee, watching the frost thaw.
As I see it, watching frost thaw is duller than
More Christmas Crackers
- Two fish in a tank. One says to the other, "Do you know how to drive this thing?"
- Two parrots sitting on a Perch. One says to the other "can you smell fish"?
- What do you a call a deer with no eyes? No idea?
- What do you call a fish with no eyes. A fsh.
- What do you a call a deer with no eyes and no legs. Still no idea?
- What do you call a dinosaur with one eye. A Dew-think-e-saurus
Many more in a similar vein, but such excitement must be shared in moderation.
Robert Lock
Wellington Somerset England
Rocking Chairs — as Safe Excitement
Please add Rocking Chairs, the ultimate adrenaline rush.
Samantha Messick
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