The Mysterious Dress of Miley Cyrus

As you may remember, the February 19th posting reports on my Justin Bieber Experience, or at least about going to his movie. By now I've pretty much forgotten about the movie except for one small item. Miley Cyrus' short dress!

It is the type of dress that gives men of my age a smile on the face and hope for the future. The storm clouds of the day open up to sunshine, the birds sing in the trees. The sickly sweet scent of cherry blossoms float on the breeze....

That aside, what I've been wondering all this time is - How does she keep that short dress from riding up? If you are lucky enough to have seen her performance, no doubt you've been wondering the same thing. Oh Miley! Do tell us your secret!

During the performance she runs and jumps all around like a crazy monkey and doesn't appear to ever pull down her skirt. Not once. It never rides up. How can that be? It appears unnatural.

I've been investigating this phenomenon. There are 2 possibilities that I can think of:

• There are special strips you can buy that strap to the leg and stick to the dress, holding it in place.
• I've been told that another trick is to spray the upper legs with hair spray. That makes the dress cling perfectly. Sounds a bit icky, though.
  

Whatever method, it worked!

(Photo Credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

Inventor's Picnic

No, not Teddy Bear's Picnic, this is Inventor's Picnic.

Let me back up....

Several years ago I was helping a friend clean out some old junk. An old family photo album that my friend did not care about was going to be thrown away! So I took it home. This awesome picture is from this album.

I know who the accordion player, he is Albert Tessier, a sort-of well known musician in the Los Angeles area.

But who is the suave looking guy just standing there in the middle?

I think this may be Steve Reeves, the famous body builder. What do you think? Here is a picture of him in his younger days:

Could it be that this really is Steve Reeves and he was making a publicity appearance at the event? He doesn't look like an inventor. But to be honest, I've never seen an inventor with his shirt off. Take a look at this other picture HERE. That really looks like the middle guy in the picture.

The reason I am making the connection is that I recently saw the Hercules movie starring Steve Reeves. It is one of those bad Greek story movies from the 1950's.

Does anyone have any insight into who this person is? Is it Steve Reeves? Please leave comments! Help me figure this out.

And another thing. What is the Inventor's Picnic??? It seems that nothing can escape being mentioned on the internet - except the Inventor's Picnic. I could find no information about this picnic. What is the name of the society? It is obscured by the men standing in front of the sign. Any clues?





The cheesecake photo is from http://www.musclebuildblog.com

'Messed Up' Hedgehog Babies

Over the constant din of human chatter I occasionally hear something that makes my right ear perk up and point. It happened the other day.

"Hedgehog babies are really messed up!", I heard a young woman (teenager!) say recently.

"Messed up? What do you mean?"

"I mean - they are really messed up. Google 'hedgehog babies'. You'll see what I mean! They roll up into a ball with their little feet and head sticking out. They look unnatural, not real!"

I have to admit I've never seen a picture of a baby hedgehog, now I had to see one. I googled and found a lot of pictures. They are cute! Probably the cutest things that have ever existed.

"Hedgehog babies are the cutest things ever! You have to agree....", I replied.

"Yea.", she said. "The are the cutest things ever. But they are messed up!"

Square Dancing Astronomy

Several weeks ago I went to a very good lecture given by an astronomer named Rob French. Recently he has been devoting his astronomy life to studying the F Ring of Saturn.

First, I learned that the rings of Saturn are named by letters (didn't know that). The outer ring is the F Ring (didn't know that). Also I learned that the moon Prometheus (never heard of it) sometimes gets too close to the F Ring and creates a series of wiffs, as seen in the image.

Rob's lecture was excellent. But the real story was not the F Rings. The real story is that Rob is one of the world's leading Square Dance Callers! He's already booked up for a lot of this year. See his impressive booked up schedule. In 2005 and 2009 he even had gigs in Japan!

See a You Tube video of his calling here.

Rob is a true Renaissance Man. If you are in the need of any astronomy or square dance services, Rob's contact information can be obtained at rfrench.org.

Chicken Nipples

Occasionally I am in the company of a conservative armchair politician who goes off about the ridiculousness of Global Warming. Obviously all the scientists are corrupt, there is a conspiracy, we should be able to pollute as much as we want. When confronted with this it is usually in an environment where it is hard to run the other way.

But I take heart. Such people are really not that misinformed. Well, at least compared to people who have asked the question "Do chickens have nipples?". A Google search of this question yields 136,000 results!

The best answer to this popular question is best answered on Answer.com. In short: NO.

The best reply, if actually asked this question, would be, "Chickens do have breasts, but no nipples. They have nuggets.".