Researchers claim to have developed a formula for marital bliss: According to team from the Geneva School of Business, if a couple is seeking a happy and long-lasting union the bride should be five years younger than her groom, from the same cultural background and be the more intelligent. Sticking to the formula supposedly increases the chances of a long and happy marriage by a fifth. Meanwhile, just under three years of marriage emerged as the point when couples feel completely comfortable with each other's bad habits and have a clear plan for their future. The study also found they enjoy their best sex, romantic meals and nights out with mates partying after two years and four months. Wives are likely to receive a respectable number of flowers, chocolates and compliments two-and-a-half years into their marriage. Weekends away tend to drop away after three years and four months as couples swap the countryside for the sofa. Researchers also found couples who stay faithful spend 24 minutes a day having a heart-to-heart each evening and never go to bed after a falling out.

An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas each day resulting in around 14 instances of flatulence

Tarantula spiders live around 30 years

Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts

Santa Claus has a brother named Bell Claus. According to European tradition, he visits your house on New Year’s Eve after everyone is asleep and returns the milk and cookies you left for Santa.

Hundreds of years ago, only wealthy people wore underpants

A "jiffy" is an actual measurement of time. It’s 1/1000^th of a second

If you lock your knees long enough while you’re standing, you will pass out

During an average lifetime, a human will grow 590 miles of hair

Only humans and dogs have prostate glands

Frosted Flakes Mascot "Tony The Tiger" has a wife and two children, Tony Jr. and Antoinette

An apple, a potato and an onion all taste the same if you plug your nose... sweet

A fetus that is four months old will become startled and turn away if you shine a bright light on the mother’s stomach (who does this?)

Q-Tip Cotton swabs were originally called "Baby Gays"

Male goats will urinate on each other to attract a mate (Human males only do this figuratively... and it’s not urine)

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world

A turtle can breathe through it’s butt

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet

The word "caterpillar" means "hairy cat"

From "Eat Sexy, Lose Weight" by Jenny Lee:

Pancake Butt (Flat Butt):  Chances are you are impatient, witty, creative, clever and resourceful.  You strive for the easy way out of things instead of having to work for them.

Bean Bag Butt: You are careless, disorganized and irresponsible.  However, you are also generous and giving.

Steel Butt: You are persistent, aggressive and very possessive.  But, that's OK because your butt looks fantastic!

Golf Butt (with Dimples!): You are conservative, shy and calm.  Also, you tend to be pessimistic.

Heart Butt: You have the most desirable butt shape for a woman.  You are devoted and compassionate, yet indecisive, idealistic and rebellious.

Granny Butt: If you are anything other than a "granny," this is not a good butt for you.  You are intuitive, nurturing, frugal, cautious, moody and self pitying.  People with granny butts are also known to be jealous.

If at first you don't succeed, try again?  Maybe not. 

There's a new e-mail making the rounds showing a group of mountain lions at a house that's reportedly just outside of Elkins in Randolph County.  Several people have sent this e-mail to me.  It comes complete with this story:

This gives new meaning to the phrase"Honey would you go outside and warm up the Jeep for me." These were taken this past weekend (1/31/2010)  outside of Elkins WV. Elkins is just a little west of Buckhannon out Corridore H.

Here are the photos:

As much as I believe these animals probably do live in our eastern mountains, this is just too fantastic.  I did some checking and, sure enough, discovered that these photos were taken in Colorado.  One good clue is the license plates on the fronts of the vehicles.  We don't have front plates in West Virginia.  Also, if you blow up the photo and look at the plate on the truck, you'll find that it's a Colorado plate!

So, do we have mountain lions in West Virginia?  Maybe... but not THESE mountain lions.

Honestly... does it get much funnier than this?

An elementary school principal in Arizona has been suspended after a sarcastic letter he wrote about children being lazy and stupid was mistakenly sent home with second-graders. Principal Ron Sterr of Litchfield Elementary School wrote in the letter, "The math we do is really easy. If your child is either too lazy or too stupid to finish it in class, I'm sending it home so that you can work with them and judge for yourself whether it is laziness or idiocy that inhibits your child's progress." Sterr, who has called each parent individually to apologize, told AP yesterday (February 2nd) that he wrote the letter as a joke in response to caustic comments made by someone he called only "an individual," and a teacher accidentally sent it home. Sterr said the letter doesn't represent his views toward children, and that he was in fact mocking those views. He now faces a demotion and possible termination.