A fair and balanced compendium of spontaneous exclamations and excited utterances, with 22 entries on the front page.

And, now, Home of the YATSASS™ Reports

Yet Another True Story About Stupid Studies:

•  Oliver Twist Was Well Fed

•  Breathing Bus Exhaust is Stressful

•  Depressed People May Take Drugs To Feel Better

•  Smart healthy people choose foods more wisely than stupid drunks

•  Stressed Out Moms Think Their Babies Are Annoying

•  People Are Groggy When They Wake Up

•  Exercise is Good For You

•  Airport Screeners Probably Can't Stop Spread of SARS & Flu

•  Study on Studies Yields Disappointment!

•  Kids Imitate Their Parents!

•  Lengthy Study with No Findings! A perfect YATSASS!

•  Making Fun Of Fat Kids Depresses Them

•  Drinking Highly Sugared Beverages Can Make You Fat!

•  Americans Prefer Safe & Effective Drugs to Unproven and Dangerous Ones

•  Study Shows Poor & Homeless Drink More Malt Liquor

•  Study on People in Studies Yields Predictable Answers, But Also Raises New Questions

•  Women Don't Like Getting Up to Feed the Newborn While Their Husbands Sleep Like Babies

•  Sperm Levels Drop With Frequent Ejaculation

•  People Who Don't Screw Around Get Less Clap

•  Swimming Can Cause Fluid Build-Up in Lungs

•  People Who Eat A Proper Diet are Healthier and Thinner

•  People who don't wet their pants feel better than people who do

•  Maybe Left Handed Winter Babies have More Brain Cancer, Maybe Not...

•  People who had nose jobs and people who didn't both like the same kind of noses

•  People pass more gas when they are active

•  Kids who spend too much time reading will get headaches

•  People who get drunk think others are more attractive than they do when they're sober

In the old days, My thoughts were more coherent, and I could string together whole sequences of actual paragraphs! Those essays can be found here for those so interested.

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Friday, November 07, 2003

Posted 12:37 PM

Lower than lower than a snake in the grass?

Consumers deleting music files from PCs, report says
by Scarlett Pruitt, IDG News Service

"Fearing recording industry reprisals, over a million households deleted music files off their PCs in August, a new report indicates.

New York-based researcher the NPD Group Inc. said this week that the 1.4 million households it tracked deleted their music files in August, compared to 606,000 in May. The file deletion frenzy reflects the success of the recording industry's latest antipiracy push and related media attention, according to NPD.

However, the researcher said that a related consumer perceptions survey indicated that their overall recording industry opinion has suffered following it's high-profile digital music piracy crackdown."

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