Check out this Sweat Block Flash Movie I made. Or the Connectors Movie is cool as well. You can see an experiment we performed on our child too.

Though the humor may be strange, you may enjoy these flash movies I’ve been experimenting with. I call the movie section of the page Wapisch. “Wapisch” is spoken as a sound effect. Go ahead and visit Wapisch to learn how to do the sound effect. I would be interested to hear recordings of anyone who thinks they can match this sound effect (that’s a challenge. If you wish to take up the challenge, then send a recording to wapisch@gmail.com). Please don’t be offended by anything said in these movies, as no offense was meant. By the way, there will be a prize for the best sound clip.

Well, one of my friends was an MC in a talent show. We caught some of it on camera, and now it’s on the internet.

The first movie is a danceoff between Napoleon Dynamite and Batman.
The second movie is of Batman singing Blue Moon, while Superman is dancing in the background. You can see both of these movies at wapisch.

Ben King is Napoleon as well as Superman, and Conn Curran is Batman.

A man I met while living in Argentina claimed he had the perfect cure for “el gripe,” or the flu.
Once you feel the sickness coming on, the first step is to cut in half one onion. You then take the lower half and put it in a dish that has a quarter-inch layer of honey in the bottom. Then you wait.
The honey then gains some acidic properties of the onion, and after 5 days to a week takes on a strange, dark color. At this point you remove the onion and drink, unaltered, the utterly undesireable liquid.
If this is, as he says, a cure for the flu (as I myself, valuing my life, am unwilling to try it), we may have found a veritable replacement for other dangerously toxic chemicals such as those used in chemotherapy, anesthesiology, and paint thinners. Who can tell for sure?

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dyorgasn Says:
May 1st, 2006 at 8:31 pm

I would like to take this story as a jumping point to another story in which death was the cure for a certain thing. That thing being squirrels. Perhaps squirrels should have their own topic as an ‘old wives tale’. I used to think they were cute and relatively harmless. That was when my opinion was based on little more than fond recollections of ‘Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers’ in which two chipmunks, a squirrel, a mouse, and a bug solve crimes (mostly crimes involving evil cats). Now I know that squirrels are a plague upon the land.
This revelation began when I moved to a ‘new’ old house. A squirrel also thought this was his new old house and proved said point by living in the attic. His life consisted of chewing on my support beams (beginning very early in the morning and continuing throughout the day), peeing in the insulation (which leaked through to become a yellow spot on my ceiling), and chewing through my phone cord. I wanted to follow the axim ‘live and let live’ but after several hundred dollars of property damage, 5 attempts to patch his entry and let him find a new home, and 2 attempts to trap him live and release him somewhere in the woods, I had to do as the Beatles and more recently Guns n’ Roses suggested and ‘live and let die’. The story of how the squirrel met his grisly end may be told at a later date. Suffice it to say that death was the cure for what ailed me.

I hate to be the sour pickle of the group, but the carcinogens in chocolate are not in high enough dose to be a major cause of cancer. In fact, research suggests the chocolate may actually prevent cancer.

Georgetown University scientists say they have discovered how an ingredient in chocolate can help destroy cancer cells. The researchers say there is much more study to be done, but that the discovery could lead to a new cancer treatment eventually. They are careful to point out, however, that their research does not indicate that eating chocolate will reduce the risk of developing cancer. The study was funded by the large chocolate maker, Mars.

Original news summary: (http://www.pharmaceutical-business-review.com/article_news.asp?guid=6C0CE77F-E626-4622-BDAA-362E759EA1AF)

The study, published in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics and funded by Mars Incorporated, explains how pentameric procyanidin (pentamer), a compound found in cocoa, deactivates a number of proteins that appear to work in concert to push a cancer cell to continually divide.
These antioxidants may protect cells from the damage caused by unstable molecules known as free radicals, which are thought to contribute to both heart disease and cancer development.
The primary family of flavonoids contributing to the antioxidant benefit in chocolate is the procyanidins, and of the various types of procyanidins, pentamer seem to be strongest, according to a number of studies.
“There are all kinds of chemicals in the food we eat that potentially have effects on cancer cells, and a natural compound in chocolate may be one,” said the lead author, Dr Robert Dickson, professor of oncology at Georgetown University.
“We need to slowly develop evidence about the selectivity of these compounds to cancer, learn how they work, and sort out any issues of toxicity.”
Chocolate, like many other foods, is the source of many possible anticancer compounds, but Dickson has stressed that this research, which is part of a series of studies conducted at Georgetown on the chocolate-cancer connection, does not mean that people who eat chocolate will either reduce their cancer risks or treat a current case.
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Sorry Jordan but your laundry machine fixing friend is probably more wrong than McDonald’s nutritional facts.

In my biology class today we talked about the doctrine of signatures. This doctrine teaches that vegetationis good for the body part it most resembles. An example of this is kidney beans. Kidney beans look like kidneys, so they must be good for the kidney. Walnuts look like brains, so they help your brain.

Our biology teacher says that this is a false concept, but he’s been wrong before. Has anyone had an experience with body part shaped fruits/vegetable/legumes that can either confirm this old wive’s tale, or even destroy it? You can read more about the doctrine of signatures at:

http://www.mounet.com/~jdye/doctrine.html

http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Doctrine/

http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-document&issn=0013-0001&volume=056&issue=04&page=0328

One of my old roomates once told me that Chocolate and Milk mixed together can cause cancer. I’m a bit of a skeptic about such claims, but maybe there is something to it. The only reason why I didnt caca this idea is becuase this roomate was pretty smart. Once he even fixed the laundrey machine in our apartment.

By the way, if this is true, then cereals like cocopuffs can be considered Carcinogenic.

I’ve been thinking lately about the properties of soap. What is it about soap that magically cleans things up? Does soap actually do anything other than make your hands smell good. It seems that there’s got to be some bacteria or protists that are immune to soap.

OK, here’s an old wive’s tale for you - according to the resident medical expert at work, flying while you’re seven month’s pregnant induces labor. I’m not sure on this one, but I’m thinking that I’m not getting on a plane again when I see a woman with a bowling ball in her shirt.

I’ve always heard that if you play classical music to your plants that they will grow better. Variations of this one include talking softly to your plants, singing to your plants and other weird things that no sane person would do.

I would like to see somebody that I trust do this experiment. I know a lot of eccentric hippies say that classical music will help plants grow but they don’t have much credibility with me (plus we are probably growing different kinds of plants).

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• Mark Says:
  October 13th, 2005 at 8:08 pm

  I always thougth that the reason it was good to talk or sing to your plants it because you breathe out extra CO2…which plants breathe in, so it’s kinda like someone putting you on oxygen. I’ve never heard that the music was good for the plants

• Preston Says:
  October 14th, 2005 at 11:24 pm

  Check out this site.

  Scroll down to the “talking to plants” section. This is from the TV show Mythbusters. The experiment was not “scientifically valid,” but according to their data the plants with music grew bigger with larger fruit than the plants they talked to. I would love to see someone do a scientifically valid experiment.

  After you prove it’s true maybe we could make a bundle selling sound systems to farmers

• mia Says:
  March 13th, 2006 at 4:23 pm

  i am doing a prodject with plants and music,and i need advice! plz help!:)!!!!

• preston Says:
  March 26th, 2006 at 3:21 pm

  mia, I would just put 2 sets of plants in different rooms with one playing music and the other without music. If you can’t do this 24 hours a day (because people have to sleep in the rooms, etc.) I would go to the local plant store and get some growing lights and put them in cardboard boxes - this is a hard experiment to do very cheaply because the music needs to play 24 hours a day. If I were you I would just do classical and the control group (with no music).

  I would not put the classical one in a cardboard box with a growing light and the control outside since then there are too many factors that are different between the 2 other than just music.

  If you end up doing this you’ll have to let us all know how it turns out.

OK, this one is kind of gross. I have always heard that if you start to notice your feet getting dry and flaky, which might indicate the onset of athlete’s foot, you should urinate while taking a shower. Apparently urine is acidic (or a base, I confuse the two) and it will help get rid of the fungus (or bacteria, I confuse the two) on your feet.

I have been testing the theory for about four years and the jury is still out on its effectiveness - just kidding. But if somebody knows if this is effective, please let me know.

I’m honestly not sure if this is an old wive’s tale or not, but I have always heard that if you shave any hair on your body, it will grow back darker and thicker. Apparently Jerry Seinfeld thought it was an old wive’s tale, too, until Kramer showed him how dark and thick his chest hair was from years of shaving.

So I used to live in Arizona when I was a young teenager and I lived in a house with a large driveway. Because we had a large driveway and three cars our family decided that the garage was better used as storage of junk and the driveway would easily handle keeping our cars safe. Well, after a couple years of this the driveway had giant oil marks like any slab of cement would after having a leaky car park on top of it for years. Upon seeing this the owner asked that we clean the oil off. My Dad wasn’t happy about this and decided it would be cheaper to clean the cement ourselves than trying to hire someone else. Here is where the little known fact comes in.

To clean cement do the following:
1. Get some dishwasher soap(you know the powdery stuff. Yeah, that’s the stuff).
2. Sprinkle the dishwasher soap over the desired area for cleaning.
3. Get some gloves and the hottest water you can.
4. Wearing the gloves and holding a moist cloth of the scaldingly hot water, scrub the soap into the cement.
5. Let it soak for a few minutes and then scrub hard with lots of hot water.
6. Continue until the oil or whatever you are trying to clean off is gone.
7. Rinse with the garden hose.
8. Finis

Enjoy cleaning your driveways!

I used Dr. Scholls Wart Remover Pads for about seven months on some Plantar warts on my feet. I found that my warts returned after several treatments, and in one patch of skin I found many more warts. Many people do use the pads and other tropical acids to remove their warts, but they didnt work for me. A few weeks after I tried the acid pads, I decided to try Wart Freezing Removers. These have worked beatufully so far(only one of my warts has lived through it). If you have been having problems removing your warts, just skip the other methods. Although it is more expensive, it is more effective. I have not tried Stuarts method, but that one sounds pretty good too.

Check this out. I once had like 20 warts on my right hand and they were too clustered to be removed by freezing, zapping, etc. My mom heard about this old wives tale. Get an electric pan. Thats a pan which heats itself up once its plugged into the wall, no stove required. Take this pan and fill it with water and place a piece of wood on the bottom (you’ll most likely have to hold the wood to the bottom but that’s okay and you’ll understand in a minute). Heat the water to the hottest you can bear. I don’t mean comfortable temperature either. You don’t want it boiling but it definetly needs to be REALLY hot. Sit back and let the wart covered part of your body soak in the near boiling water for 30 minutes. After a month the warts are gone and gone forever. No nasty side effects like stinking, or having to hold food to your skin or anything. It kills the roots and the entire forest of warts disappears for ever. Trust me. I’ve been wart free for 9 years now.

I thought I would just let everyone know that Ginger is not only delicious, but it is good for you too. It counter balances the fun smell of garlic with its own little spunky twist. Supposedly, you can drink Ginger Beer when you are feeling a fever coming on, and it will burn it out of you. The weaker version of ginger beer is commonly called ginger ale. Do not get these two confused. Ginger ale has no value other than being simply delicious. Ginger has the ability to settle a queasy stomach, and can keep you awake while studying for an exam. Keep in mind that as ginger ages, it gets spicier. Dont worry about burning off your taste buds, because just regrow anyway. Also, my spouse and I find my irresistibility has a direct correlation to the amount of Ginger I consume during the week.

Well, my spouse and I were discussing garlic, and we decided that if you eat too much garlic, then you will have stinky children. Be cautious when trying the ultimate ouchy stomach cure.

If your stomach is hurting badly, then you might just have worms. Try this remedy, and you’ll feel like a new person:

1. Take 5 cloves of Garlic
2. Crush Garlic
3. Place Garlic in warm glass of Milk
4. Drink Milk right before you go to bed

You’ll wake up the next morning feeling great!

August 6, 2005: 7:59 pm: AdministratorHealth, Skin

To remove your warts:

1. Get one potato
2. Cut potato in half
3. Wait until midnight
4. Bury potato at midnight (Must be midnight in the time zone you are located in)

To remove wart:

1. Buy some Cheetos
2. Bite a Cheeto in half
3. Rub Cheeto on wart
4. Discard used Cheeto

Your wart should be gone in a few days.

When running, make sure that you run more than 30 minutes. The first 30 minutes of a run may burn fat, but once you’ve been running for 30 minutes your fat burns faster.

There are so many methods for living fun filled lives, and curing weird diseases. We want to hear your methods, and whether or not your “old wives tale” really worked for you. For those that are gathering tips, we do not accept responsbility for the consequences that may occur while applying these ideas. Have fun checking them out, and please submit anything you got. Thanks