Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

Fuckin' A rights I am!

So I watched about 2/3's of that show last night on FOX and it was like watching "Who Wants to be a Special Needs Millionaire" or something. The two contestants that I saw were just too much . . . or way not enough. I'm thinking that they are screening their contestants by only taking the ones who do poorly on the elligibility exam or something, it was brutal. But I have to admit that if the show had contestants who were just firing through the questions no problems the show wouldn't be very entertaining . . . and cost a whole lot in prize money.

Basically it just made me frustrated watching it . . . I guess I will just have to get my trivia fix elsewhere, eh? Like here, think you can which titles are Clint Eastwood movies and which are gay porn films? I got one wrong myself . . . I guess that means I either have to watch more gay porn or more Eastwood movies. For some reason I already think I know which one I'd prefer.

Oh before I forget happy St. Urho's Day to you.

If you're not familiar with this most sacred of Finnish holidays, St. Urho is the Patron saint of Finnish vineyard workers. Attributed to him is the miracle of banishing grasshoppers from Finland which he accomplished with a few choice Finnish phrases, thereby saving the season's grape crop. But in reality a bunch of very drunk people made this up in 1956. Very drunk Finns, what are the odds?

And one last piece of information for you, because I know how important this is; the USPS has changed their rules for mailling live chickens. Yes you read that right, changed . . . that means they used to allow it, but now are stricter about how you can go about doing it.

Now you can only send your live chickens via Express Mail and must conform to the standards in International Safe Transit Association Test Procedure 1A. Click this link and scroll down to section 9.3.5 for further details. Crazy eh? Now I want to see if Canada Post will let me mail live chickens too.

But should I be suprised? No I mean after all the USPS did have to pass a law saying that you couldn't mail your kids. To me that says that there were enough people doing it that it became enough of problem to warrant their being specific legislation. I can't find the link at the moment, but I'll dig it up and post it when I do.

PS - Happy 58th Birthday Erik Estrada!