On The Lighter Side
It’s Friday again, so here we go to get ready for the weekend with On The Lighter Side.
Firstly to Australia and you know the start of the old joke “Waiter there’s a fly in my soup…” ? Well that may just be true as more and more restaurants are following the Aborigines by adding moths to the menu.
Millions of bogong moths have descended on Canberra and Sydney over the past fortnight, gathering in swarms on windowsills, clogging air-conditioning ducts and swooping on unsuspecting pedestrians.
Restaurant owners have had enough and apparently the moths can be made into a good soup or served with brandy and are also said to be high in protein. The can be cooked or eaten raw.
I’d catch them off the windowsill, hold them by the wings, and pop them straight into my mouth. It’s like eating a prawn cocktail
Australian Museum naturalist Martyn Robinson
Moving on and can there be a greater way to be brought into the world in a plane flying over the Sahara desert?
A baby girl was born during a Brussels Airlines flight from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Belgium.
Baby Daniella, named after the co-pilot of the flight was born at around 0200 GMT on Friday to a 31-year-old Congolese woman. Mother and child were taken to the hospital upon arrival in Brussels.
Given the absence of any nearby airport, the birth took place aboard…Flight SN352, therefore, had 233 passengers aboard on departure and 234 on arrival.
Air Brussels Statement.
And finally what would you do if you were told the world was to end in an hour?
Ziji Publishing asked people around Britain how they would spend their last 60 minutes on the planet if they were told that an asteroid was going to hit the earth. The survey was used to promote author Steven Sivell’s debut novel, “Cloud Cuckoo Land” which uses the premise of “an impending meteorite collision as a metaphor for threats to the human race.”
54 % said they would like to spend it either with or on the phone to their loved ones, while 13% would sit back, accept the inevitable and reach for a glass of champagne. 9% claimed they would have sex, with 3% stating they would turn to prayer.
Bizarrely 2% said they would decide to go looting.
Friday, October 12th, 2007 and is filed under Views on News.
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