Andrew McIntosh and Declan Patton, a pair of academics at the University of New South Wales (they come from the
land down under) are worried about the dizziness, disorientation
and, well, that pain in the neck you felt walking out of the recent
Metallica concert. And they've done what any good academic would -- they've published a
research paper which is now available on the website of the esteemed
British Medical Journal. (Australia's still part of that dwindling empire, you see.) The
B-Sides sends our parents to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, finds songs to make stray partygoers leave and geeks out with the technological geniuses in Hyperbubble
Todd Ehlers, Wikimedia CommonsMy sense of humor never developed past the age of twelve. Beavis and Butthead will always crack me up. Bodily functions? Hilarious. Cheap innuendo? My favorite. Which is why I cackle every time I come across the 1974 copy of Better Homes and Gardens: The Meat Stretcher Cookbook in my collection.Heh. I said "meat."So much giggling to be had in a book about meat stretching. But the killer? The Tokyo Turkey Toss. Because, oh my God, it could either be a euphemism for