The
Daily Gyro
Updated
Daily on
Greek Time
July 6, 2005
-
A recent study commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) finds that
if global warming leads to a rise in temperatures in Greece of 6 degrees (2
degrees Celsius) over the next 25 years, it could lead to disastrous results.
The study showed that the Mediterranean would be most affected by global
warming and that specifically Crete would experience seven more weeks of
summer, leading to less rain, less drinking water, desertification and a rise
in forest fires. It would make the middle of the summer in Greece as a whole
too hot for the average tourist, but would make the late spring and early fall
kind of nice. If global warming could lead to two tourist seasons and summer
off-season rates, what would be so bad about that?
-
In the tradition of great Greek science, researchers at the Aristotle
University in Thessaloniki just completed a 25 year-old study counting the
dimples on 14,141 male and 14,141 female Greek children and teenagers. They
discovered that 13% of Greek children had at least one dimple, with 3.5% of
children had dimples in both cheeks. We really can’t make more fun of this
report than it makes fun of itself.
-
Residents of Yeroskipou, Cyprus were recently informed that the town in now in
the Guinness Book of World Records for making the biggest loukoumi ever. The
Yeroskipou Loukoumi at over 2 ˝ tons bested a Turkish produced one from
Australia that weighed in at 2 tons and 349 kilos. (No doubt soon to follow is
the world record for tooth decay.) Just imagine what that must have been like
when it went all stale and hard?
-
Not to be outdone, the Cypriot town of Paphos is also looking to enter the
Guinness Book of World Records with plans on creating the world’s longest chain
of bras. Organizers are looking to gather at least 100,000 unwanted bras to
raise awareness and money for breast cancer screening and research. Less than
200 bras have been collected from the island itself and many more will need to
come from the island and abroad before April of next year. The current record
holders from Singapore succeeded in hooking together a 60km bra chain
consisting of 79,001 bras back in 2002. To give you an idea, 60 km is about 1/3
of the length of the “Green Line” that has been dividing the island since 1974.
Isn’t it about time that some organization brought some awareness to solving
that cancer?
Other Servings of The Daily Gyro
06/30/2010
08/31/2009
08/03/2009
03/25/2009
08/28/2008
08/27/2008
08/13/2008
04/02/2008
03/25/2008
08/30/2007
08/14/2007
03/05/2007
02/14/2007
01/22/2007
11/06/2006
10/02/2006
09/18/2006
09/04/2006
09/01/2006
08/14/2006
07/13/2006
07/10/2006
06/25/2006
06/05/2006
05/03/2006
04/04/2006
03/22/2006
02/21/2006
01/30/2006
01/17/2006
01/11/2006
01/09/2006
01/05/2006
01/04/2006
12/12/2005
11/28/2005
11/16/2005
10/31/2005
10/17/2005
10/03/2005
09/12/2005
09/02/2005
08/29/2005
08/10/2005
07/27/2005
07/13/2005
07/06/2005
06/27/2005
06/13/2005
05/23/2005
05/16/2005
05/06/2005
05/02/2005
04/25/2005
04/18/2005
04/13/2005
04/08/2005
04/06/2005
04/04/2005
04/01/2005
03/30/2005
03/28/2005
03/25/2005
03/23/2005
Read
past feature articles.
