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the Catwalk
February 2008

58.3% OF STATISTICS ARE MADE UP

Did you know?

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class. 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents. People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side. Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores. If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people. Turtles can breathe through their butts. Donkeys kill more people annually then plane crashes. Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials. 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused. The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined. 0.7% of Americans are currently in prison. Go figure...really?

And what about?

Left-handed people live slightly shorter lives than right-handed people. The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy. Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run. 90% of New York cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. The Pyramid of Giza was built with 2.5 million blocks. One pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants a year. Walt Disney was afraid of mice. More than 20% of the votes in the 2001 elections in Argentina were invalid. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday. Saudi diplomats have 367 outstanding parking fines in Britain. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined. Wow!

Oh, did I mention?

The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph. US tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Mexico is second. The women in Iceland earn two thirds of their nation's university degrees. You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt. Ten years ago only 500 people in China could ski. This year an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese people will visit ski resorts. Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals. In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror. Americans ate eight million more orders of French fries this year compared to last. In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first. I did not know that.

How come I know all this stuff? The internet, of course! But if only the internet had the answer for me yesterday when a friend asked me for my wife's shirt size so he could arrange to send her a gift. It was one of those "dear" in the headlight moments. How would I know? Should I know? How long have I been married again?

I thought I'd take a guess but what if it was too big? Would I end up in the dog house for attention deficit and ignorant husbands? Then it came to me. A closet mission. Making a distraction move I found myself in my wife's closet. Checking the labels of all her shirts I found myself in a quandary. Some were S. Some were M. Some were L. Some were numbered. What's up with women's clothing? I've heard of one size fits all but all sizes fit one? Why couldn't Melvil Dewey have invented a standardized system for women's clothing instead of a library classification system?

That's when I realized - the internet doesn't have all the answers and sometimes the truth is hard to find in someone's closet.

- Enjoy the game

Willy J. Allison
January 2008