Also, who comes up with the ideas for these studies anyway? And if I can’t be a Cocktail Historian, how do I get a job conducting them?

Let’s talk about some of these things.

• Clips used in the trailer are from other trailer (TMNT , Watchmen, maybe others).
• The voice over in the trailer doesn’t sound like it’s from a good studio. Maybe someone’s basement?
• The domain name is registered by Domains By Proxy, Universal doesn’t do that.
• The movie is supposed to come out in one (1) month and we haven’t heard anything about it.
• IMDB is unaware of the existence of any Battletoads movie, and IMDB is god.
• How the hell is L. Ron Hubbard supposed to produce this movie?
• Will Smith and Sammy L. J. I get, where did Eddie Murphy come from?
• Longcat Pictures and Wirah Productions don’t even exist. I bet Wirah is the handle of whoever made this.

However, it has one redeeming factor. It’s on the intertubes, thus it has to be true. I’m pumped.

Economists can study pirates though. Peter T. Leson from George Mason University has published two papers and is working on a third legitimately studying pirates from an Austrian Economists perspective. (Actually read this link on Austrian Economists if you want a more concise explanation.)

An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization (which I haven’t had a chance to read yet)

Pirational Choice: The Economics of Infamous Pirate Practices. (which I am in the process of reading and which is very good)

and the work in progress:
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, History’s Most Notorious Criminals – Abstract (this abstract makes this paper look to be the best of the three…and it’s short for your poor attention spans)

1. Cooking for one person is so pointless you might as well get a pizza. Or Wendy’s. It’s actually cheaper.
2. Hanging out with a couple means you are the third wheel.
3. No one goes to a restaurant to eat by themselves.
4. People ask ‘How is your dating life going?’
5. You are the subject of lots of useless advice.
6. You have to clean your apartment all by yourself.
7. Porn is not a substitute for sex.
8. Coming to an empty apartment is depressing. Walls cannot talk back. Cats however do.
9. You have no one to go to Wal-Mart with at 1 A.M.
10. You have no one to help carry in the $88.32 worth of stuff you bought at Wal-mart.
11. No one calls you at 7:30 A.M. on Saturday to get you up for class.
12. You miss the sensation of cold doggie nose on your testicles.
13. You secretly kind of wanted to see Horton Hears a Who.
14. You find it hard to sleep without someone snoring in your ear and taking all the covers.

I may add more to this as thoughts occur to me, and anyone else should feel free to add to it as well.

This was not one of those articles. I read (and when I say read in the context of RSS I mean don’t mean in the reading-a-George-R-R-Martin-book type of read so much as the glancing-through-news-stories type of read) Sage’s post and just assumed it was from Mental Floss where it would have totally fit in.

I was then about to copy the URL to post a link on Abodes to the article when I realized that was totally unnecessary.

Then I laughed.

Fin.

Now what this study does mean is that someone could probably bottle cat pee and market it as an expensive new wine. You know that stupid rich people would flock to buy it.

(Editor’s note: I think there is a term for a girl that has a lot of “guy friends” ever since she was a little girl.)