Sideswipe: December 30: A bruh moment

Under one roof

1. My family had a fourth meal before bed, a substantial bedtime snack called Night Lunch. The look my wife gave me the first time I said that out loud.

2. My sister taught my parrot how to say, “Help me. I’ve been turned into a parrot”.

3. My university hostel had a small, electrical short above the sink inside the mirror’s light. My roommate would hold both the faucet and the mirror at the same time to gently shock himself awake for the day.

4. My flatmate used to make sculptures from his empty beer cans. He made Stonehenge, the White House and the Colosseum. We only realised there was a problem when he started drinking more to make sure he had enough cans to “finish the sculpture”.

5. My son never cleaned out his pockets before laundry, clogging the lint catch. Always reminded him to empty his pockets. One lint catch object was a KFC chicken leg.

6. A dude I lived with would take his few dishes into the shower with him to wash instead of using the sink.

News nostalgia

October 1969: University of California’s Professor Vern O Knudsen assembled 10 young women wearing miniskirts in a reverberation chamber and fired a blank cartridge from a pistol. He did this to prove his hypothesis that bare legs revealed by a miniskirt will reflect more sound than legs covered by a long skirt. His hypothesis confirmed, he warned that miniskirt wearers might disturb the carefully engineered balance of sound in concert halls by reflecting more sound. He noted: “We must be acoustically thankful that they don’t wear bikinis.”