Weird Questions
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singularity75Weird News of the Day
LONDON (Reuters) - London commuters, long used to train operators blaming delays on everything from leaves on the line to "slippery" rain, thought they had heard it all -- until a vasectomy stopped services. Thousands of commuters were held up when a trainee driver on the London Underground fell out of his cab after fainting over fellow workers' descriptions of the vasectomy operation a colleague had undergone, British newspapers reported Tuesday. The trainee, who was taken to a hospital with head and chest injuries, had unsuccessfully asked his fellow workers to stop talking about the vasectomy, the Daily Express said. "The details were just too graphic and evidently too much for the young trainee to take," the newspaper quoted a London Underground source as saying. The incident occurred last Thursday.
Question of the Day
Q: America isn't where the BUFFALO roam?
Nope. Nowhere in the America did buffalo roam. Those big furry things the Natives hunted for food? Those weren't buffalo! Those were bison!
It's true! Ask any scientist. What are known as buffalo roamed in Africa and Asia, but not North America. Somewhere along the way, people began calling the North American animals buffalo, and the name stayed. And then there is a song that begins, "O Give Me a Home, Where the Buffalo Roam." Well, they didn't roam in North America.
The correct term for those giant, gentle animals is bison, a critter different in many ways form a buffalo. Only a few of them are around nowadays, mainly because they were killed for sport until about a hundred years ago. You can still see them in some Western states, like Montana, and at some zoos. But don't call them buffalo! They are correctly known as bison.
LONDON (Reuters) - London commuters, long used to train operators blaming delays on everything from leaves on the line to "slippery" rain, thought they had heard it all -- until a vasectomy stopped services. Thousands of commuters were held up when a trainee driver on the London Underground fell out of his cab after fainting over fellow workers' descriptions of the vasectomy operation a colleague had undergone, British newspapers reported Tuesday. The trainee, who was taken to a hospital with head and chest injuries, had unsuccessfully asked his fellow workers to stop talking about the vasectomy, the Daily Express said. "The details were just too graphic and evidently too much for the young trainee to take," the newspaper quoted a London Underground source as saying. The incident occurred last Thursday.
Question of the Day
Q: America isn't where the BUFFALO roam?
Nope. Nowhere in the America did buffalo roam. Those big furry things the Natives hunted for food? Those weren't buffalo! Those were bison!
It's true! Ask any scientist. What are known as buffalo roamed in Africa and Asia, but not North America. Somewhere along the way, people began calling the North American animals buffalo, and the name stayed. And then there is a song that begins, "O Give Me a Home, Where the Buffalo Roam." Well, they didn't roam in North America.
The correct term for those giant, gentle animals is bison, a critter different in many ways form a buffalo. Only a few of them are around nowadays, mainly because they were killed for sport until about a hundred years ago. You can still see them in some Western states, like Montana, and at some zoos. But don't call them buffalo! They are correctly known as bison.
