La ‘street meat’

Published 5:55 pm Friday, March 18, 2016

Sacre bleu: Entrepreneurs in Paris, France, have installed a vending machine on a city sidewalks — available 24 hours a day, seven days a week — that dispenses ham, pate, duck confit, steaks, sausages and other meat items.

This could be a real boon to the city’s mime industry, giving the white-faced, striped-shirt-and-beret-wearing street performers something new to act out: Man Trying to Shake Loose Foie Gras Stuck in Vending Machine.

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You mean they’re not pink or blue? Scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel, who analyzed the MRI scans of more than 1,400 human brains, say they have found no discernible difference between the brains of men and women. Instead, the researchers say, individual brains are a mash-up of masculine and feminine traits.

Zombies, however, have begged to differ and recommend red wine (merlot or pinot noir) with male brains and a white (a dry riesling) with female gray matter.

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1918, Congress approved daylight saving time.

The legislation was sponsored by insomniacs in Congress who declared, “If we can’t sleep, ain’t none of you sleeping neither.”

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