5-11-2012
KRYPTONITE
DEPOSIT -- The cancelled check that Marvel Comics paid to Superman creators
Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster $130 for the rights to the Man of Steel in 1938
recently sold at auction for $160,000. To add insult to injury, the names
of both creators on the check were misspelled. The two later sued for
more compensation but lost in court. Biggest question to emerge from this
whole sad affair is: How could two guys who were able to come up with a
character who's able to see through his girlfriend's clothes not be able to see
through such an unconscionable, one-sided deal?
DEAD RINGER!
-- A team of zoologists and archaeologists from Cambridge University has
uncovered evidence that the first horses to be domesticated by man lived in the
Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan.
The scientists studied nuclear DNA from 300 horses in eight countries in
Europe and Asia. Along with equine
skeletal remains, the scientists also discovered a score scroll from the first
known game of horse shoes they estimate was played in 3,678 BC. Of course, the game was much more dangerous
than it is today – the shoes were still attached to the horse.
GREASY SPOONERIES -- After eight nominations for the prestigious award,
San Francisco’s “Boulevard,” located in the only remaining building to have
survived the 1906 earthquake and fire, has copped the top prize as “Outstanding
Restaurant” from the James Beard Foundation, recognized as the world’s premier
restaurant ranking organization. Runners up
included “Blue Hill” and “Balthazar,” both in New York City, “Highland’s Bar
and Grill” in Birmingham, Alabama and Philadelphia’s “Vetri.” Tied for last place were “Morrie’s House of
Pink Slime” in Atlanta and Seattle’s “The Smoked Salmonella Grill &
Pub.”
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