Normal, if anything

As we can all agree is normal, whilst in the pub yesterday evening I got into a heated discussion about Barney. In case you don't know, the Barney I'm talking about is Barney T. Dinosaur from Barney and Friends. More helpfully, he's the big purple dinosaur fella.

Anyhoo, my colleague reckoned that Barney had two men inside him (so to speak) and I was arguing that there would be no point in him having two fellas in there, it would just make him really unwieldy and he's quite agile as 200 million year old dinosaurs go (of course we can't discount the fact that it might be two little people in there).

Anyhoo, I went onto Wikipedia this morning to see if I could find out how many men Barney can fit inside him at once (as Wikipedia is the source of all human knowledge). I was unable to find this piece of information (although I fully intend to claim I looked and it was one guy).

Anyhoo, when looking through some info on Barney I found this nuggety gem:

The music from Barney's theme has been used by interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to coerce the detainees, with much success.

[citation needed], right? Wrong.

"In training, they forced me to listen to the Barney "I Love You" song for 45 minutes. I never want to go through that again," one US operative told (Newsweek) magazine.

Apparently he also has a black belt in Tae Kwan Do, who knew?

Update on my social life...

I'm off to Nando's tonight. It is a fine establishment that sells chicken and beer, and on a personal level I need very little else. I think you may already be aware of this.

Nando's entry on Wikipedia is very interesting though and contains this little doozy.

In Australia, Nandos ran an advertising campaign based around the 2002 political controversy regarding the mandatory detention of illegal immigrants. The detainees had been waging a hunger strike campaign, even resorting to physically sewing their lips closed. Nandos adverts proclaimed that the strikers "decided to unsew their lips after hearing the news that with every Nando's quarter chicken combo, Nando's are giving away an extra quarter chicken free"

I've copied that exactly, including the several ways they spell Nando's. The best part though is that they have a citation, how awesome is that?

Also, who thought that advert was a good idea? Personally I'd like to shake their hand (and also check to make sure it wasn't too spongy).