We all know St. Patrick supposedly got all the snakes out of Ireland, but here are a couple more apocryphal claims about St. Pat.

According to various legends, St. Patrick of Ireland:

• Personally created the first Waterford crystal.
• Chased Finn MacCool over the Irish Sea.
• When challenged by the Devil, played the violin with such technique and gusto that the Devil handed the saint a version of the instrument made of the purest gold.
• Introduced the garden slug to the island.
• Of the four patron saints of the British Isles (George, Patrick, Andrew and David), was known as ‘the quiet one’.
• As an act of ascetic devotion, lived on nothing but raisins for 17 years.

The three winners are Donald Goines, Kilgore Trout (of Vonnegut fame) and Lena Pukalie.

Not bad, eh?

• Greek: Nine for ‘grape’
• Irish (Gaelic): Twelve for ‘fornication’
• Italian: Six for ‘revenge’
• Swiss: Fourteen for ‘peace’

Well, I’m off to buy some ‘kolpina’ and ‘pain aux tresse’. Hope your enemies don’t get ‘focaccina’ on you. ‘Pacen’ to all and let’s all ‘iasc’ tonight.

One of the earliest ‘sexperts‘ in history is Bombay-born mystic Ravichandra Chandahar (Third Century A.D.), the man who claims to have perfected telepathic orgasms.

An early proponent of the Kamashastra tradition, which most famously were included in the Kama Sutra, Chandahar claimed to have identified 483 erogenous zones on the female body. Some of the more notable ones include:

• Where the muscles meet in the woman’s armpit
• The tip of the second-smallest toes on each foot
• The webbing between the pinkie and ring fingers
• The upper part of the earlobe

Chandahar said proper manipulation of any of those alone could make a woman climax within minutes.

If that doesn’t leave the gals gagging for it, Chandahar also claimed he could give a woman an orgasm by mentally accessing her chakras, in essence telepathic orgasms.

Wouldn’t that be a lovely party trick?

A mate of mine from America (all right, so he’s an e-mail friend) has started a Facebook group about the site! Click on the link above and join up!

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The animal, native to a small area around Manila, Philippines, is called the molesting tapir not because of any sexual cravings, but because of the Spanish ‘molestar‘, which means ‘to bother’ or ‘to annoy’. The tapir is a notable pest, not only not afraid of man, but often seeking out people to beg food from.

The tapir made the IUCN 2008 Red List of Threatened Species due in part to its man-seeking nature, which makes it easy prey for hunters.

• Marinomase – A new type of sugar created in an Italian laboratory in 1939.
• Filfil – A colourful fish found in the central area of Florida in the U.S.
• Rustmouth – Another fish, this time one from Algeria.

• While ‘Change You Can Believe In’ was an inspiring slogan, it had coincidentally been used twice before. It had been used before by presidents James Buchanan and Warren G. Harding. When questioned by members of the German media, Obama speechwriters said they were unaware of the previous usages but this did not change Obama’s message.
• There is a red dwarf star in the Peony nebula called Obama 7-A. It was named this 14 YEARS BEFORE OBAMA WAS BORN!!!
• The strangely similar Irish surname O’Bama means ‘Son of Bramaugh’.