The Official Friday Silliness Thread Explores Creepy Brain Stimulations (Did you see that???)

Reuters ^ | September 22, 2006 | Sully777

[sully777]

LONDON (Reuters) - Stimulating a certain area of the brain can produce a creepy feeling that someone is watching you when no one is, scientists said Wednesday. Swiss researchers made the discovery while evaluating a young woman for surgery to treat epilepsy...When they electrically stimulated the left temporoparietal junction in her brain, which is linked to self-other distinction and self-processing, she thought someone was standing behind her. If they repeated the stimulus while she leaned forward and grabbed her knees she had an unpleasant sensation that the shadowy figure was embracing her..."Our findings may be a step toward understanding the mechanisms behind psychiatric manifestations such as paranoia, persecution and alien control," said Olaf Blanke, of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in the journal Nature...

[YouPosting2Me]

A little Van Halen... Nice way to start a Friday. Bring on College Football.

Go Gators.

[genefromjersey]

Has anybody else wondered about this ?

Why is it okay for a woman to shout: "Harder ! Harder !"

But not okay for a man to shout: "Tighter ! Tighter !" ?????????

[ArGee]

A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, "I'll have an AutoCAD monkey please." The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. He fitted a collar and leash, handed it to the customer, saying, "That'll be $5000." The customer paid and walked out with his monkey.

Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said, "That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only few hundred dollars. Why did that one cost so much?"

The Shopkeeper answered, "Ah, that monkey can draw in AutoCAD - very fast, clear layouts, no mistakes, well worth the money."

The tourist looked at a monkey in another cage. "That one's even more expensive! $10,000! What does it do?"

"Oh, that one's a engineer monkey; it can design systems, layout projects, mark-up drawings, write specifications, some even calculate. All the really useful stuff," said the shopkeeper.

The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in its own cage. The price tag around its neck read $50,000. He gasped to the shopkeeper, "That one costs more than all the others put together! What on earth does it do?"

The shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen it do anything, but it says it's a Project Manager."

Shalom.

[JRios1968]

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[ArGee]

The optimist says the glass is half full.

The pessimist says the glass is half empty.

The engineer says you specified the wrong glass.

The architect says the glass is empty. Can I have another?

Shalom.

[NCjim]

John O’Reilly hoisted his beer and said, “Here’s to spending the rest of me life, between the legs of me wife!”

That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night! He went home and told his wife, Mary, “I won the prize for the best toast of the night.” She said, “Aye, did ye now. And what was your toast?” John said, “Here’s to spending the rest of me life, sitting in church beside me wife.” “Oh, that is very nice indeed, John!” Mary said.

The next day, Mary ran into one of John’s drinking buddies on the street corner. The man chuckled leeringly and said, “John won the prize the other night at the pub with a toast about you, Mary.”

She said, “Aye, he told me, and I was a bit surprised meself. You know, he’s only been there twice in the last four years. Once he fell asleep, and the other time I had to pull him by the ears to make him come.”

[ShadowAce]

Checking in for another week...

[ArGee]

Does it strike anyone else as ironic that two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left?

Shalom.

[ArGee]

The most important thing is what is in the glass.

That's what the airport screener said.

Shalom.

[The SISU kid]

In B 4 50???

[Rummyfan]

Checking in!

[Michael Goldsberry]

[Reaganesque]

MINE?
(Click picture for audio.)

[demkicker]

WHO BROUGHT THE CAT?

[CTOCS]

Three Rednecks, Bubba, Hoss, & Catfish, were working on a tall TV tower. Catfish fell off and was killed instantly.

As the ambulance took away the body, Hoss says, "someone should go and tell his wife."

Bubba says, "okay, I'm pretty good at that sensitive stuff. I'll do it."

Two hours later Bubba comes back carrying a case of Budweiser.

Hoss says, "where'd you get that, Bubba?"

"Catfish's wife gave it to me," says Bubba.

"That's unbelievable. You told the lady that her husband was dead and she gave you a case of beer?"

"Well, not exactly," Bubba says. "When she answered the door, I said to her, You must be Catfish's widow."

She said, "No, I'm not a widow."

And I said, "I'll bet you case of Budweiser you are."

[demkicker]

JOE'S BLIND DATE


Joe took his, knock-down gorgeous, blind date to the carnival. "What would you like to do first, Kim?" asked Joe.

I want to get weighed," she said. They ambled over to the weight guesser. He guessed 120 pounds. She got on the scale; it read 117 and she won a prize.

Next, the couple went on the Ferris Wheel. When the ride was over, Joe again asked Kim what she would like to do.

"I want to get weighed," she said. Back to the weight guesser they went. Since they had been there before, he guessed her correct weight, and Joe lost his dollar.

The couple walked around the carnival and again he asked where to next. "I want to get weighed," she responded. By this time, Joe figured she was really weird and took her home early, dropping her off with a handshake.M

Her roommate, Laura, asked her about the blind date, "How'd it go?"

Kim responded, "Oh, Waura, it was wousy.