{"id":829,"date":"2001-11-11T14:53:55","date_gmt":"2001-11-11T19:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=829"},"modified":"2001-11-11T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2001-11-11T19:53:55","slug":"its_good_to_hav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/11\/its_good_to_hav.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s good to have something you’re good at"},"content":{"rendered":"

The girl with the longest tongue in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“My friends always said I had an incredibly long tongue – I could make lots of money with it one day,” said Annika.
\nThe twelve-year-old from Tangstedt, near Hamburg, can lick the ice cream from the bottom of a cornet – while her friends have to use their fingers. <\/p>\n

The interesting thing about this news story, of course, is that the Brits call an ice cream “cone” a “cornet.”<\/p>\n

No, really. I mean, what else interesting or discussion-worthy is there about this?<\/p>\n

Oh, there are pictures, too.<\/p>\n

(Via Xkot<\/a>, who turned me on … to Hosting Matters<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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