You May Have Gotten This Question Before, But Do You Know The Rest Of The Nantucket Story?

You may have gotten this question before, but do you know the rest of the nantucket story?

No, I have not gotten this question before; thank you for finally asking!

To answer said question: yes, I know both the dirty and the clean versions. Oddly enough, I actually learned the dirty version long before I even knew there was a clean one. When I was younger, my Mom used to recite it to me, as it had been recited to her by her father when she was a little girl:

(NB: the “****”s are pronounced as muffled noises)

There once was a man from Nantucket

Whose **** was so long he could **** it.

He said with a grin

As he wiped off his chin,

"If my ear was a **** I could **** it!"

Having a terrible sense of humor is a proud family tradition which we take very seriously.

This Week in Science - April 15 - 21, 2013:

CO2 build up here.

Colour-changing hare here.

Nano-sponges and toxins here.

Bioengineered kidney here.

Fins to feet here.

Interactive exoplanet tally here.

Dinosaur egg study here.

Infants being carried here.

MIT solar cell here.

Chimps and communication here.

HPV vaccine in Australia here.

Depression study here.

six word poem 4/26

Prompt: “Your work is spellbinding, Six.  If it wouldn’t trouble you much, would you please pen a poem about the scope of the Earth. About how we’re all different, yet inherently the same in a biological sense.”

Forty-six  chromosomes spawned seven billion misfits

I’d just like to point out that 50 Shades of Grey was Twilight fanfic and Twilight was inspired by Muse so when you think about it, it’s kinda because of Muse that 50 Shades was written in the first place oh