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The Mane Event’s Fun Stuff

Useless Trivia

Dear...Someone?

­Once, I accidentally tried to unlock my house with

my car keys. I started my house up. So I drove

around for a while, and then parked on the free­

way and started yelling at everyone.

“GET OUT

OF MY DRIVEWAY!”

­Steven Wright

­Before Stonehenge, there was a woodhenge, and

then a strawhenge, but then the big bad wolf blew

them down and the three little pigs had to be relo­

cated to the projects. ­Eddie Izzard

­I carry a lighter in my back pocket. I don’t smoke,

I just like certain songs. ­Demetri Marten

­This shirt is dry clean only. Which means...it’s dirty.

­Mitch Hedberg

­My father was a beekeeper and his father before

him. I’d like to follow in their footsteps, and they

went a little something like this: *runs across the

stage*

AHHHH! HELP! I’M COVERED IN

BEEEES

! ­Eddie Izzard

­They say guns don’t kill people; people kill

people. But I think the gun helps, you know?

Standing around pointing at people and going

“BANG!”

Isn’t going to do much, is it? You’d

have to be real dodgy in the heart to have that. ­

Eddie Izzard

­Crabs pee through their eyes.

­Winston Churchill was born in a bathroom at a

party.

­A pig’s snout is called a gruntle.

­Bananas grow pointing upwards.

­Giraffes can’t swim.

­The cucumber is actually a fruit.

­More people are killed by bees than snakes.

­Zebras are white with black stripes.

­A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth.

­An American aircraft managed to shoot itself

down by accident in the Vietnam War.

­Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

­The Cowboys beat the Giants

10. Light travels faster than sound. This is why

some people appear bright until you hear them

speak.

9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To

steal ideas from many is research.

8. How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise

my hands.

7. The surest sign that there is intelligent life some

where in the Universe is that it hasn’t tried to

contact us.

6. Duct tape is like the force, it has a Light side and

a Dark side and it holds the Universe together.

5. Quantum Particles: the dreams that stuff is made

of.

4. There’s no such thing as a great discovery; there

are just very fortunate accidents.

3. Photons have mass?! I didn’t even know they

were Catholic...

2. I have not failed. I have just found ten thousand

ways that will not work.

1. It has recently been discovered that research

causes cancer in rats.

Silly Quotes

Some Funny Theories

Chris Petty, Sophomore

Paws Up

Paws Down

To the Volleyball Team for winning a

Sectional Title and for their Wins over

HAC and Webster Christian!

To Katelyn Beman for her terrific perfor­

mance in the Cross Country Sectionals and

States!

To all benchmark students who worked

so hard to complete their tasks on time.

To all the students participating in sports,

the musical, and other school activities.

To the lazy seniors who blew off their

benchmark.

To the coming of winter weather, yuck!

Pros:

•

Good predator design

•

Cool weapons

Cons:

•

Faulty camera angles

•

Some dated graphics

•

Terrible sound and voice acting

•

Sluggish button commands

Final V

erdict:

4.5

Different View of

“Predator;

Concrete Jungle”

Anonymous

If you’re going to write it, own it.

Funny Fotos

Summary:

You are Ethan Cole, a soldier sent into

the underground military base of Area 51. You have

no clue what your mission is, but you have heard ru­

mors that have come out of there. When you get down

there, you are thrown into immediate action, fighting

hordes of humans who have been infected with a vi­

rus that alters their body structure making them stron­

ger yet very stupid, although some can use guns.

Things don’t start off that great either; pretty much

first thing your buddy gets his head ripped off, and

you get infected; however, by the means of a rare

genotype, you gain the ability to mutate at will into

one of the creatures. To make things worse, not only

do you deal with infectious humans, it turns out Area

51 was built on top of an alien colony, and they want

their revenge. Oh joy!

Gameplay:

Okay, looking for a game that has a wide

choice of weaponry… this isn’t it. There are a total

of six different weapons and two types of grenades.

All the weapons have a melee function, and you can

go dual fire action as long as you have two of the

same guns. There is never a dull moment! When you

think you have killed all the enemies in one area, more

will show up. Where the game lacks in weaponry it

makes up in voice acting. David Duchovney (Agent

Mulder from

“The X­Files”

and the main character

from

“XIII”

) does the voice for Cole, which is so

flipping cool. When you scan someone, they interact

by saying something hilarious like

“A little to the

left.”

or

“That feels so good, yet so awkward.”

Ranking:

I give “Area 51” an 8 out of 10!

Next Month:

“Ultimate Spider­ Man”

PS2 Review

Chris Petty, Sophomore

This months game: “Area 51”

What do you do when you are sad and the people

around you won’t leave you alone?

*Be thankful you have people around who care*

*If one of your friends was sad, wouldn’t you want

to know what happened*

*If you are really truly that sad and don’t want to

share your problems with your friends, maybe you

should seek help with parents or professionals in

your school*

What do you do when you think you have an

undiagnosed mental illness?

*First find out if you do or not by seeking profes­

sional help*

*If you think you have something wrong, chances

are you probably do*

*Check out your own symptoms on web MD; be­

come educated on your illness, if you have one*

*There’s no harm in seeking help from a mental

illness. Lots of harm can be done if you don’t!!