2010-07-30

Cockatrice

Anyone familiar with the mythical beast known as a cockatrice, sometimes also called a basilisk, may also know that these creatures were supposedly hatched from eggs laid by roosters and incubated on a dunghill by a toad.

While there is of course a problem with expecting an exothermic animal like a toad to not only sit still but incubate an egg, there's the question of how to get an egg laid by a rooster.

Well, after reading about it in Ripley's Believe It or Not, I went and found this.

Mood: Thoughtful
Music: The Guess Who: "No Sugar Tonight"

2010-07-12

Two wrongs...

There seems to be no shortage these days of Web sites whereby you can look up song lyrics. However, they all seem to be plagued by the same problem: if one site has the wrong lyrics, they all have the wrong lyrics.

Mood: Disappointed
Music: Coverdale/Page: "Easy Does It"