People eat a staggering variety of things. If you thought boiled brinjal was weird, here are a few foods to chew on.
Sea Urchin Gonads
A seabed dweller so simple it lacks a brain. Eaten raw or lightly boiled in salt water. The genitals are scraped off raw and spread on bread; tastes like papaya, it seems.
Celery Straws
The vegetable holds few terrors. But it’s a cleverly weird idea to grow hollow celery, which doubles as garnishing and edible drinking straw in your bloody mary.
Ghost Moth Larvae
Standard fare in Australia for thousands of years. Even the country’s white colonisers would eventually accept that they were nice to eat (faintly sweet egg) or roasted (crunchy and nutty).
Rocky Mountain Oyester
Bulls aren’t the only male animals to get their privates in a pate; that fate awaits the likes of sheep, goats and turkeys too. But Montana Tendergroin is tops.
Culture Vulture
Symphony No. 40 in G W.A. Mozart
What One of three symphonic masterpieces composed by the great Austrian in his 32nd year.
The Math Follows nature’s Golden Ratio (which determines plant and shell growth); ratio also used by da Vinci, ancient Greeks, Aztecs, etc.
You’ll Hear It Most As Cellphone ringtone.
But Do Listen TO Its remaining 26 minutes.
So you thought you knew all about
Tintin
Thundering typhoons! It’s the 75th anniversary year of the boy reporter with the funny hair style! Anyone who doesn’t know which of the following facts is wrong is surely a bashi-bazouk.
A. Tintin is a reporter for the Brussels-based newspaper ‘Le Petit Vingtieme’.
B. At one point of time, Steven Spielberg was supposed to produce a Tintin film with Roman Polanski directing.
C. India features in three Tintin books: ‘Tintin in Tibet’, ‘The Cigars Of the Pharaoh’ and ‘The Blue Lotus’.
D. The only real-life villain in the Tintin books is Bugsy Siegel in ‘Tintin In America’.
Answer D. Right book, wrong man. It’s Al Capone.
what is
Boy
Young human of male persuasion. From embuie, Old French for servant. Also used as slang (‘out with the boys’), and in derogatory form indicating inexperience or low status. For some reason, used to describe all Indian sportsmen. Hmmm... so "the boys played badly", ’cos they couldn’t handle the men?
