When the Hoovers did not want to be overheard by White House guests, they spoke to each other in Chinese.

For those interested in modern uses of ancient Egypt design motifs, this is quite an unusul one: "The James Naismith Trophy, the trophy which is presented to the winner of the FIBA World Championship 2006 has returned from the defending champion Serbia & Montenegro (former Yugoslavia) and was displayed at the Draw Event venue today. . . . The trophy . . . . was originally designed in 1965 based on the inspiration of Dr. H.C. Renato William Jones, the first Secretary General of FIBA, who passed away in 1981 at the age of 74. He was very much impressed by one of the lotus columns with a particularly stylish bud shaped capital in the temple of Karnak in Luxor, Egypt and this inspired a portion of the trophy's design. . . .The original trophy, which is kept at the Pedro Ferrandiz Foundation in Spain, was completely remodelled in 1997. The top of the cup has a lotus flower design and a decagonal rotating middle piece, with carved maps of the continents and precious stones (black onyx, yellow citrine, green chrysoprase, red garnet and blue topaz) inlaid. The colours of these stones mirror those representing five FIBA zones. The base is made of marble and James Naismith's name is engraved on all four sides in Latin, Arabic, and Chinese letters, as well as in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.

Nice. I'm thinking these guys must be big soccer fans...

The NBA adopted an anti-flopping policy back in October.

Good thing the league cracked down on flopping.

Hahaha. I've been saying this for years.

Or anything offensive.

<waits while the youngsters Google rhetorical>

Rhetorical question.

Toneta's back?

Apparently, there was a hurricane here a little over 150 years ago. I still can't imagine the water being warm enough for that.

We fools in our coastal communities with great weather.

Rats are everywhere. Aside from that, those things happen every day? You're a math person. What is the likelihood of each of those?

I think Ohio has had its share of earthquakes fairly recently. Fires, tornadoes, floods are all common in TX and OH, no?

Certainly, you can never claim that yours is the party of mathematical prowess.

But you would be in OH. Or TX.

I'm not upset at all. I'm just having fun with you knuckleheads.

He used to have a LinkedIn page...

No doubt, but he's a tool.

Floyd was/is a bigger draw.

Boxing is more dangerous due to the weight of the gloves. They soften the impact, which means guys absorb punches that should knock them out. The accumulation of those shots is far more damaging to the fighters than taking a single KO punch in an MMA fight...