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For the golf fans with a love for music, here is a list from Golf Digest of the top 100 golfers in music.

Who’s number one?  Well, he plays a mean sax.

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Jesus turned it into wine, he washed his disciples’ feet in it and walked across it, according to stories told in the Bible. Water is a sacred thing, the United Church of Canada says, and should not be bought and sold like any other commodity.

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The guy writes a bunch of letters to businesses and orgianizations, and gets all sorts of responses.  Link

For example, he writes to McDonalds asking what and who exactly is Grimace?  Link

The most interesting letter was to the Illinois Pork Producers’ Association in which he asks the question, why don’t we drink pigs milk?

Here is their response:

Porcine do lactate and their milk I will assume would taste great, because it is made of 8.5% fat in relation to the fat that makes up 3.5% of the components in cows milk. The other components such as lactose and water are found at nearly the same percentages in pig’s milk.

However, pigs will on average produce 13 lbs of milk in a day as compared to cows that produce 65 lbs of milk on average per day. Pigs unlike cows cannot become pregnant while lactating and therefore possess a severe economic problem to producers. While pigs consume less feed per day, economics does not allow pigs to be a viable source of dairy products.

Read the article for the whole list, but here are some of them:

4. Why can’t you buy a nonproprietary cellphone and use it with any carrier, the way you can do with a land line?

5. How come banks immediately take money out of your account for debit- card transactions, but when it comes to depositing money it can take as long as five days for a check to clear and be posted to your account?