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Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Today's Fun Fact

Posted on 07:54 by Unknown

I had to hover near the computer, waiting for something to finish, so I went to I fucking love science.  It has a story about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, with this picture:

 
Oops, I thought.  

If you don't get why I thought that way, go and read the comments attached to the post. Or a sample of them.  That's what I did.  And then I read all the 2944 comments that were posted at the time.

Here's the fun fact:  Three percent of those comments consist of some version of the "get back into the kitchen and make me a sammitch, biatch" joke.







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