Friday, May 12, 2006

Scary Statistics Friday

66% of Americans age 18-24 cannot locate Iraq on a map of the world.

50% cannot locate New York State on a map of the U.S.

SING WITH ME! "I believe the children are our future..."

A new British Study revealed that 1/3 of British women derive more satisfaction from household chores than sex.

I can't help but wonder how some of these women are using their mops and sponges.

More than 1/2 of Americans polled would rather be unemployed than fat.

Well, 60% of Americans are overweight, so maybe if they all just quit their jobs...

Bush's new approval rating is 29%.

How many I told you SOs do I have left in me?

-Source, The Week Magazine

Minimum number of times that Frederick Douglass was beaten in what is now Donald Rumsfeld's vacation home: 25[Harper's research]

Now only if we could get someone to beat Rumsfled 25 times...

Number of books published in Britain since 2004 that have shit,shite, or crap in their titles: 23[Harper's research]

Dickens, Hardy and Austen would be proud.

Percentage of Americans who believe that China will be stronger than the U.S. in a decade: 42[Harris Interactive (Rochester, N.Y.)]