12.02.2007

the elephant man cometh



165,000 pounds for 3.3 pounds. sound like a fair exchange?... that's £s for lbs.

this is a big fat truffle that was dug up by Luciano Savini's truffle dog Rocco, near Pisa Italy. what i'd like to know is how long they figure it'd been buried there. sheesh, this thing is so big i could have dragged my grandfather out of a smoke filled pub after a three day binge and he'd have been able to sniff it out.

moot or hooey?
a classic report in the 1960s noted that California-gas-company repair crews found leaks in their lines by watching for circling turkey vultures attracted to the carrionlike scent added to the gas as a safety alert. (ah, those Americans)

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