Mrs.O once was cooking a potato in the microwave and accidentally set the timer to 50 minutes instead of 5. She walked away to do another chore and by the time she realized what was going on, the potato had lost all its water content and actually ignited. She found the potato on fire, scorching the inside of the microwave. Nothing beats a blazing spud.
Classic tale from this retired biology teacher of 32 years. Once I got two homework papers from the same student in different handwriting. Yes, as amazing as it seems the cheater even wrote the cheatee's name on his paper. It didn't require Lt. Columbo to figure out who copied. I stapled the two papers together and told them they would each get 1/2 of the grade for the work. Once I gave a multiple choice test and I graded them without putting any marks on the papers. The nexy class day, I handed them back and told them to grade their papers after I gave them the answers. Several students "adjusted" their grades, even a couple honor roll kids. One of them apologized to me in tears, lesson learned the hard way about cheating. I did several other tricks of the trade to discourage cheating. Word got out quickly that it did not pay to cheat in my class.
I think this is a re-run, but it is still mildly amusing. When I DJ'd back in the day, our station had a lot of albums in an "obscurities/rarities" section. I don't remember seeing any of those. The Orleans album may have been in the regular stacks. One oddball cut I'd play was Senator Sam Irvin reciting "Bridge Over Troubled Water", funny stuff. When CD's came out, I missed vinyl with its cool album cover art and liner notes. Also it was fun to discover a backwards message on vinyl. Remember Prince's Purple Rain in clear purple? Fun times.
I thought there was a mountain in Pakistan or someplace that had the greatest elevation drop, 20K feet or so. I saw a documentary once about two guys climbing it and base jumping from the top. There must be some caveat about largest vertical drop.
If the Airlift had happened in this PC world of ours would he be condemned for promoting bad diet and be asked to drop broccoli or arugula to the kids? Just joking(wink).
Fun times.