Bridal Diapers

Are they real? As disgusting as it may sound, I think they are.

They have been talked about a lot online in recent months (here, here, and here), but I don't think they are catching on. At least I sure hope not. Apparently, some brides are worried about dealing with their dresses on their wedding day. I guess it's way less humiliating in their minds to poop their panties than to ask for help.

...Lisa, please please just ask for help.

Oldest Game

I was told in 4th grade that the oldest game in the world is Mancala. I don't think this is true anymore because the earliest evidence of the game is from the 6th or 7th century AD, whereas games such as Senet, Pachisi, Go, Backgammon, and Chess were all played before this time [link].

But that doesn't say that people in Africa didn't play Mancala before the 6th or 7th century. We just don't have physical proof that they played it before all the others. For all we know, they could have just dug holes in the ground and played with pebbles they found. And they could have played it that way for centuries before actually making a playing board out of pottery or wood.

Thanksgiving Psalm

I heard this story from my Molecular Biology professor. He told this story in honor of Thanksgiving last week. When he was 60 years old, B. H. Roberts (who wrote the Comprehensive History of the Church) was a chaplain in World War I right before the treaty was signed, so he never saw combat. He was the only Mormon chaplain in his division and the other chaplains didn't like him too much. They were kind of mean to him. They were having a big celebration meeting to celebrate and give thanks for the end of the war. One of the chaplains who was leading the meeting announced that he would be pleased to hear Brother Roberts recite "the Thanksgiving Psalm" in honor of this celebration.

There was only one problem: Elder Roberts had no idea which psalm was the Thanksgiving Psalm, or even if there was a Thanksgiving Psalm.

So he got up off his chair and slowly walked up to the podium, having no idea what he would say when he got there. He didn't want to make a fool of himself, but even more importantly, he didn't want to make the Church look bad. On his way to the stage, he heard a voice call out, "Psalm 100!" He turned to look who had said it, but he didn't see anyone else looking around and realized that no one else had heard it. So he got up to the podium, turned to Psalm 100 in his Bible and started reading, having no idea what Psalm 100 was even about. This is what he read:

  1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

  2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing

  3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

  4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

  5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

 Pretty cool, huh? Later that evening he went through the entire book of Psalms and couldn't find any better psalm that mentioned "thanksgiving." Anyway, I just thought it was a cool story about how the Lord comes through for you in the end.

Shearing the Sheep

I got a haircut yesterday. My hair is really curly when its long. When I'm stressed out, it gets fluffy. You can tell how stressed I am by measuring the diameter of my fro.

But I got my hair cut yesterday. Yay!

Here is a picture showing how different I look with a haircut. I want you all to notice that the only thing I changed is the hair.

Don't I look like two different people? I think I will do this type of transformation if I ever decide to rob a bank. I will grow my hair out long and shaggy, rob a bank, then run and get a haircut. No one would ever recognize me.

Cool watch

Check out this watch. It looks pretty neat.

It has bellows to make the sound of the watch resonance. It makes sounds for each minute and hour with a repeater. And I want one. You can read more about it here.

Happy Thanksgiving

Flowchart Book

Remember how much I love flowcharts and infographics? Here's a book that looks awesome:

Image from Amazon.com. Obviously.

It's written by Doogie Horner. His website it funny. He writes flowcharts about really funny things. And it looks cool. Here are some things in the book:

• An illustrated matrix of WWF Finishing Moves
• Heavy metal band names taxonomy
• The noble art of zeppelin warfare demystified
• How to win any argument
• Tragedy to comedy conversion chart for comedians
• A creepy drawing of a baby skeleton
• How to tell if you're an evil twin

And here is an example of the work he does. It looks pretty awesome.

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