Some things are done a bit differently in the USA, particularly in Batton Rouge. Down there in the deep south, nursing students are getting their lectures in alternate locations. In this case they are getting lectures in the local cinema before 11AM.

So in Theater 4, nursing management will be followed by “Serenity.” After the Research in Nursing class, “Elizabethtown” is showing in Theater 6. An anatomy exam in 7 precedes “The Gospel.” And in Theater 11, Mothers and Childbearing Families (aka obstetrics) is followed by the Wallace and Gromit movie “The Curse of the Were Rabbit.”. Many dental school courses are also being taught at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine.

I think we have found a winner of next years Ig Nobel prize… New Zealand Scientists decided to see why rats are so hard to catch and eradicate. So they put the rat on a small rat-free island. The problem is that the rat decided to swim 400m to another rat free island. The rat I think has been caught, but this was not really the experiment they were looking at.

Finally, TV Cream has a list of the top 100 toys of the 70’s. There are some that are still around, and some that are deservedly dead. And I would never have called a typewriter a toy…