<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Got this from another mailing list but just seemed hysterically appropriate for this list! > Top 10 List of Bread Statistics > > 1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users. > > 2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming > households score below average on standardized tests. > > 3. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been > proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to > suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than > that in one month! > > 4. Newborn babies can choke on bread. > > 5. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of > bread and given only water begged for bread after as little as two days. > > 6. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to > "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even > cold cuts. > > 7. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in > the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; > infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died > in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and > influenza ravaged whole nations. > > 8. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within > 24 hours of eating bread. > > 9. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! > That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute. > > 10. Many bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish > between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical > babbling.