Hey there, yeah you; next time you are dumbfounded and completely clueless with what to do with all the extra $$$ you have lying around, you could glean some ideas from these: "#1 The U.S. government recently spent 27 million dollars on pottery classes in Morocco. #2 The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently spent $300,000 to encourage Americans to eat caviar at a time when more families than ever are having a really hard time just trying to put any food on the table at all. #3 During 2012, the National Science Foundation spent $516,000 to support the creation of a video game called "Prom Week", which apparently simulates "all the social interactions of the event." #4 The U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the largest snack food maker in the world (PepsiCo Inc.) a total of 1.3 million dollars in corporate welfare that was used to help build "a Greek yogurt factory in New York." #5 The National Science Foundation recently gave researchers at Purdue University $350,000. They used part of that money to help fund a study that discovered that if golfers imagine that a hole is bigger it will help them with their putting. #6 If you can believe it, $10,000 from the federal government was actually used to purchase talking urinal cakes up in Michigan. #7 The National Science Foundation recently gave a whopping $697,177 to a New York City-based theater company to produce a musical about climate change. #8 The National Institutes of Health recently gave $666,905 to a group of researchers that is studying the benefits of watching reruns on television. #9 The National Science Foundation has given 1.2 million dollars to a team of "scientists" that is spending part of that money on a study that is seeking to determine whether elderly Americans would benefit from playing World of Warcraft or not. #10 The National Institutes of Health recently gave $548,731 to a team of researchers that concluded that those that drink heavily in their thirties also tend to feel more immature. #11 The National Science Foundation recently spent $30,000 on a study to determine if "gaydar" actually exists. This is the conclusion that the researchers reached at the end of the study.... "Gaydar is indeed real and… its accuracy is driven by sensitivity to individual facial features" #12 Back in 2011, the National Institutes of Health spent $592,527 on a study that sought to figure out once and for all why chimpanzees throw poop."
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:31:59 +0000
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