Mobile Phone Hitch

A couple in India got married via mobile phone after severe flooding in Gujarat state prevented Ashifkhan Jahurkhan, 25, from reaching the bride's house in Bombay.

"We made the best use of technology. It was impossible for me and my family to reach Bombay as roads are flooded with water," said the groom who is still to meet his bride after the wedding.

Witnesses on both sides kept their phones on speaker mode to ensure all relatives heard the bride and groom's words during the 30-minute ceremony.

Long distance wedding ceremonies sound like a highly civilized arrangement to me. I doubt whether long distance phone sex, with or without the phones being on speaker mode, constitutes a legally consummated marriage but it's unlikely to increase the birth rate, unless you are short distance bonking someone else at the same time.

Antarctica diary entry.

Dr. Barth Netterfield, a cosmologist with the Long Duration Balloon Boomerang project gave last night's lecture on the universe, the beginning of time, where we are headed, and things everyone wishes they knew but don't.

"Our universe," he said, "went from a singularity (which we don't understand) to a beginning (which our physics won't explain) to plasma, hot and dense. It is composed now of normal matter (about 5%), dark matter/particles (about 35%), and something they are calling dark energy because they don't know what it is (65%)."
Antarctica Journal.

Sounds like I need to invite Dr. Barth Netterfield to Bogsville to clarify one or two points.

Myriapods

While we're on the subject of vitally important stuff, did you know that a millipede does not really have 1,000 legs? Handy hint, to find the number of legs on your millipede, count the body segments, multiply by 4, and subtract 10 or just about any other number you can remember after driving yourself mad counting its body segments. Millipedes can apparently only have up to 710 or 850 legs and believe it or not a centipede may have anywhere between 28 and 354 legs or some other very large number. I can assure you that all Bogsville centipedes have exactly 100 legs just as all our unicorns and motor cars only have one horn.

PS

The long distance phone sex link is harmless. Thanks for that Merl.