Spanish dogs say "guau guau". Did you ever read comics or something in a language other than your cradle tongue and notice that onomatopoetic words, particularly for animal sounds, are different in different languages? This webpage has animal sounds from loads of languages, organized by language and animal. Indonesian dogs say "gonggong".
posted to MetaFilter by jeb at 1:44 PM on April 30, 2002 (46 comments)

Princeton president pines for peculiar persons. "Princeton University's new president, Shirley Tilghman, says her campus has a problem: not enough weirdos. 'I would like to think we could begin to attract students with green hair. We will take pink and blue and orange hair, too.'" The rest of the article is pretty bland, but that quote is hilarious.
posted to MetaFilter by jeb at 12:37 PM on July 10, 2001 (9 comments)

TV Buddy Universal Remote Control/Bottle Opener. I only wish that I had found this in time for The $50 Prize Contest.
posted to MetaFilter by jeb at 1:02 PM on June 22, 2001 (9 comments)

I know someone has posted an Amazon Purchase Circle before for Microsoft, but the one for NASA is hilarious. Introduction to Space Physics?
posted to MetaFilter by jeb at 8:50 AM on June 14, 2001 (6 comments)