News you can't use

I know that everyone turns to this blog to catch up on the news of the day, so here goes.

I saw going through Google News and saw the following headline "A Bit of Urine Makes Mouse Embryos Transparent." Of course, my first reaction was, is that a good thing or a bad thing? My second reaction was "Cool, I wonder if that would work on anything else." Just because our floor does not turn transparent when my dog pees on it does not eliminate all the other possibilities.

The reality of is that it makes scientific observation of lab mouse embryos easier because they can see inside without destroying it. Boring, yet interesting.

The other thing I saw was a sports article whose headline contained the utterance "Ruh-row." Everyone seems to think this originated with Scooby Doo. I knew this to be false, because Astro, the dog on the Jetsons, said "ruh-row" (and referred to himself as Rastro) and the Jetsons was on the air before Scooby Doo. Amazingly enough, I found an article on the Chicago Tribune website confirming this, but saying that the origin was confusing because the guy who did the voice of Astro was the same guy who did the voice of Scooby Doo, albeit 7 years later.