I gave EB a chance to pick a couple of good sites to feature in the special newsletters…. I chained her to the galley and made her sit there on a splintery, waterlogged bench, pecking away on her laptop, and told her, “Aye matey, this be yar last chance, arrgh! If ye don’t find a cuppla good sites this week, matey, yar gonna walk the plank. Arrgh!”<\/p>\n
After several hours and a myriad of groans and pleas for help, EB finally came up with something. I unchained her, and allowed her walk freely about the cabin. The only bad thing about this site is the overuse of exclamation points. One of my college English instructors told us that in life we are all given ten exclamation points to use, and only ten – and to make sure we use them wisely. Obviously this site’s writers didn’t have the same English instructor as I did, they’ve used up the entire exclamation point quota for the entire InfoAve Premium mail list. (Yes, and some of you are actually rolling your eyes when I said “one of my college English instructors”. You’re amazed that I even went to college and stupefied that I even had one English instructor. But alas, it’s true. It shows you the state of the American educational system.)<\/p>\n
Anyway…<\/p>\n
Here are a few examples from our site of the week. There are hundreds more of these kinds of “facts” on the site:<\/p>\n
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other’s shoulders!<\/em><\/p>\n The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!<\/p>\n No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!<\/em><\/p>\n A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1\/100th of a second!<\/em><\/p>\n So, it is another time-waster from EB, but this one is a good time-waster, especially if you like to fill your head with useless bits of trivia or look at thousands of exclamation points. EB, you’ve done it again. Visit this Cloudeight Web site pic if you dare<\/a>. It’s called Strange Facts and it is stranger even than EB. Really!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I gave EB a chance to pick a couple of good sites to feature in the special newsletters…. I chained her to the galley and made her sit there on a splintery, waterlogged bench, pecking away on her laptop, and told her, “Aye matey, this be yar last chance, arrgh! If ye don’t find a cuppla good sites\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}