Snakes and gators and doggie danglers, oh my!

Breaking news from the Things You Don't Wanna Know Department:

**warning, this information may take up space in your brain. please clear a spot for it. we reccomend that you toss out your brother's birthday and the recepie for chocolate cookies for this essential information**

Our first item: Everglades, Florida - A Burmese Python was found to have burst after attempting to eat an alligator. The python was suspected to have been abandoned in the everglades by a pet owner who no longer wanted to care for the animal.

The everglades are swampy marshes in southern Florida, teeming with wildlife no human wants to get near. Apparently two of those types of wildlife had a bit of a standoff with no winner in the end.

Burmese Pythons are kind of a constrictor-type snake. They wrap themselves around their prey and then swallow them whole, sometimes taking months to digest their food. As the snake tried to digest its prey in this case, the alligator wisely fought back, clawing at the snake. Which, as we stated earlier, burst in the struggle. The gator also did not survive.

**we would have posted the picture, but it was not good. use your mind - think of an alligator wearing a snake for a jacket**

Our second item - Washington, DC - Artificial testicles for dogs, Nigerian Internet scammers and a team that studied the pressures created when penguins poop have won the Ig Noble prizes this year.

The doggie danglers intent is to make a neutered dog feel more self-confident and helps with the trauma involved in the neutering process. You can order these yourself (for your dog, not you) at www.neuticles.com.

The prize for literature went to Nigerian scammers for "creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq." We've all gotten this email.

We aren't going to comment on the pegnguin poop. Wait, yes we are. We here at 20 Degrees Off-Center sincerely hope Danny DeVito was not involved in this study. (we also hope someone gets that batman reference)

Thank you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled boredom.