So I stumbled on www.unkno.com and discovered the following.

If you unfolded and flattened a set of human lungs they would cover a tennis court.

Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time.

Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow.

In a year, an average person uses the toilet 2500 times a year.

27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras. (US statistic)

An eyelash lasts 150 days.

During warm weather hippopotamus’s secrete sweat that is pink.

Dolphins have it made don’t they. They can attack sharks, they smile all the time and make great clicking sounds. I like the idea of being able to sleep and do things at the same time. I really only feel normal by about 11.30 in the morning, and I know I’d be a much better person if I could sleep through those first few hours of the work day.

Btw – any one of these are sure fire “I’ll get my coat” moments in company. Speaking of which, I’ve just put mine on and I’m half way out the door!

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out of pigs’ ears, but you can flog them as doggie treats.

These are not just pigs’ ears, these are jumbo pigs’ ears. Can you hear the dulcet tones of Dearbhla Kirwan flogging these in her best M&S voice (it is her that does the voiceover for those ads isn’t it?)

On sale in your local Super Valu. Apparantly, they aren’t recommended for dogs though.

So I was listening to Darragh on Newstalk last night and it got me thinking about memes. I’ve been blogging away for quite a while now, and secretly thinking to myself I’d one day get someone tagging me with one. I know some people absolutely hate them, but at least you know you’re part of something and people think enough of you to want to take part. So, feeling a little bit like the kid who no one likes because he smells bad or what not, I started looking to see if there was a meme I could start myself - and I found one that I really like so I’m going to kick it off.

It’s a picture chain. I start off with the above photograph and email this photo to someone else.

That person has to print it out in 6×4 format (all the photo kiosks print to that size) and then take a shot of the photograph with something in their world.

They then pass that photo on to someone else who gets it printed and takes a photo and so on.

Take a look at this website and it all becomes clear. It’s recommended to start with something not too complicated to begin with – so this photo was taken a short while ago out the back. The blue of the sky will stand out in the next photograph.

I have to think of someone to send this photo to. There’s really only one person I’d like to send it to. Unfortunately, she doesn’t like memes, but I might just annoy her with it anyway. I’ll create a special page to show the chain of photos as it progresses.

Oh, and don’t start hitting me with memes now that I’ve said I felt left out – I don’t want any sympathy memes thanks :-)

Apologies for two videos in a row – but this is just classic.

I love blogs that are very focused in their content. Like this one I discovered today called “Photo Clichés”. The site is all about:

“Collecting pictures of people being uniquely hilarious, just like all the other people who took the same photo”

There’s a whole section on the site dedicated to photographs of Jaws in Universal Studios. This particular photograph made me laugh. I think it’s because I know I would probably do the same thing if I had a child in my arms and were presented with the same photo opportunity.

Titanic is responsible for many things, all of them bad. Photo Cliché focuses in on one of the bad things the film has given us. The outstretched arm pose imitating the scene from the film where that unforgettable “king of the world” line was uttered.

I did a quick search through Flickr for famous Irish locations to see what poses were on offer. I was at least expecting a few photographs of Molly Malone’s ample breasts being fondled, but nairy a one that I saw.

Only one photo with a couple posing with Padraic O’Conaire in Eyre Square.

A handful of heads staring up at the Spire.

This one at St. James’s Gate (king of the world again).

Taking a peek over the ledge at the Cliffs of Moher.

Sitting on Fungi the Dolphin.

Any more you can find?

You might be wondering about the photograph in the header above. It’s there to illustrate another cliched pose. It’s one that I just don’t get and I see it constantly in the local newspaper. It’s the pout and the whole finger on the chin thing. My niece (who modeled the pose for the photoshopping of the image above), reliably informs me that this pose is out of fashion now. The new pose is the pout along with two fingers held horizontal at chest level. This is called the “D4 pose” – that’s what it’s called among the kids of Wickla – don’t know about elsewhere.

If I was a photographer for a local rag, I’d outlaw all this particular pose and replace it with compulsory nose picking. That way, I could build a reputation for being the nose picking photographer. I’m sure there’s a niche for it somewhere.

While I’m on the subject of the nasal passage…Is there anything more gross than someone performing a nasal evacuation in the street? A guy standing casually with his elbow on a bin outside the GPO performed one this morning. The image and sound stuck in my mind all morning. I’m not saying I’ve never nasally evacuated myself, but there is a time and a place – and outside the GPO on a nice sunny morning just isn’t one of them.

Header photo owned by Prodigal Sista and adapted under a CC License. Hand belongs to my niece. It may be out of proportion to the photograph above