What topic should Heraclitus obsess about instead?

[Al B. Sure!]

Heraclitus is requesting a 3-month self-ban from Apolyton because he feels he needs it so he can get over his obsession with racial differences in IQ's.

Also my request IS serious if some mod is wondering. I'm not even drunk or anything, I just realized I can't restrain myself on one topic and I need to let that obsession pass.

So I figured instead of having him ban himself, we should give him ideas on new topics to obsess about!

Maybe inconsistencies in the Bible so we can quarantine him and Ben into their own threads?

Any other ideas?

Here's some studies that might perk his interest and get the ball rolling.

http://www.2spare.com/item_64013.aspx

«Navigation-Related Structural Change In the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers» (2000)
E. Maguire, and others (University College London)
Presented evidence that the brains of London taxi drivers are more highly developed than those of their fellow citizens.

Nah, a little too much like what he already is obsessed about.

«The Relationship Among Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size» (1993)
Presented by J. Bain (Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto) and K. Siminoski (University of Alberta).
While comparing height, foot size and penile length, Bain said the relationship was minimal. "We found a weak correlation," he said and added this ratio should not be used by anyone to assess the size of a man's penis.

I guess it's not true!

«On Human Odour, Malaria Mosquitoes, and Limburger Cheese» (1996)
Presented by B. Knols
It shows that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet.

Obsess about this one, Hera! What evolutionary mechanism causes human feet to smell like limburger cheese to female mosquitos?

[Asher]

This thread is very cruel.

[Al B. Sure!]

This thread is very cruel.

How so?

[Drake Tungsten]

How so?

perk his interest

That's a crime against the English language...

[Al B. Sure!]

«Secret Life: Firsthand, Documented Accounts of UFO Abductions» (1992) Presented by J. Mack (Harvard Medical School) and D. Jacobs (Temple University).
Concluded that people who believe they were kidnapped by aliens from outer space, probably were, and that "the focus of the abduction is the production of children."

My alma mater!

God damn my school has loony professors!

As a faculty member of the Department of History at Temple University, Jacobs specializes in the history of 20th-century American popular culture.[4] He states that his current research interests "involve a delineation of the role of anomalous experiences in personal and cultural life."[4] For over 25 years[2] Jacobs has taught a course on "UFOs in American Society."[5]

Jacobs has a high profile in the field of Ufology. He has lectured widely, been interviewed, and participated in numerous television and radio shows on the subject of alien abductions.[6]

In recent years Jacobs has argued publicly that the evidence from his research, using hypnosis with alleged alien abductees, shows that alien-human hybrids are engaged in a secret program of infiltration into human society with the final goal of taking over the Earth.[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] He asserts that some of his research subjects are teaching these hybrids how to blend into human society so that they cannot be differentiated from humans, and that this is occurring worldwide.[14]

[KrazyHorse]

perk his interest

That's a crime against the English language...

Are you surprised?

a) He's from Philly
b) He attempts to act like a thug
c) He went to Temple

[Al B. Sure!]

I'm getting a lot of hits on the google for "perk his interest" or "perk your interest"

[Drake Tungsten]

It's "pique his interest", you fool. You should ban yourself for three months for this.

[Al B. Sure!]

Is this like a "all intents and purposes" and "all intensive purposes" thing?

[Drake Tungsten]

No, it's a "you're an even bigger **** than people who write 'peak his interest'" thing...

[Al B. Sure!]

Newsclippings with perk:

While the pre-fight theatrics and verbal assaults were enough to slightly perk one's interest

the movie does a few decent action sequences that temporarily perk one's interest.

continually builds “follow lists” of players that perk his interest

the fact that he is traveling overseas for the contest does seem to perk his interest.

[Drake Tungsten]

So you've successfully demonstrated that there are other retards out there (and in journalism, surprise, surprise!). Congratulations.

[KrazyHorse]

What point are you attempting to make? That you're no less literate than the lowest 10% or so of hack journalists?

[KrazyHorse]

**** you, Drake.

[KrazyHorse]

It appears that 3 of those are sports stories and one is a movie review. Additionally, they seem to contain other grievous errors in syntax/grammar.